Chris Preimesberger

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–An industry is helped measurably when it has a front man who’s easily recognizable. It’s even better when that person is universally liked. For the NAND flash industry in 2014 and for the past few years, that man would be Steve Wozniak. The Woz brings his story as Apple co-founder, chief scientist for […]

CacheBox, an upstart provider of server-side caching and application acceleration software, came out of stealth mode Aug. 6 and introduced new high-performance cache management for solid-state storage. The announcement was made at the Flash Memory Summit here at the Santa Clara (Calif.) Convention Center. The annual conference, the largest in its sector with more than […]

Implementing an Intelligence-Driven Security Strategy: 10 Data Points by Chris Preimesberger Understand Your Current Risk There are a lot of questions to ask before embarking on a new strategy. What are the risks to the organization? What are its vulnerabilities? How well is it defending against those at any given point in time? Without visibility […]

Why DevOps Is Becoming a Pivotal Factor in New Data Centers by Chris Preimesberger Practitioner Tip: Work With Other Teams and Find Ways to Build Empathy Building bridges between teams will increase your understanding of the challenges at every point in the life cycle. As a developer, try to put yourself in the shoes of […]

MONTEREY, Calif.–If Ping Identity had its way, users of the Internet would never again have to punch in another username/password to access a Web service or log in to a site of any type. It’s safe to say that most people wholeheartedly agree that usernames and passwords are annoying, difficult to remember, not very secure […]

10 Tips to Avoid Sweating About IT This Summer by Chris Preimesberger Align Strategy With Key Executives Outlining and executing IT goals and initiatives is impossible without establishing clear lines of communication with your company’s CIO and other major business unit leaders. Work together to identify top business priorities and the role IT can play […]

As the world becomes ever more interconnected by the Internet and various private networks, an increasing number of global companies are covering more geographic ground and doing business in far-off lands. Many large multinationals have already been there, done that for a long while, and certainly will continue to do it. But thanks to new-generation […]

New-gen IT is all about convergence, speed, cross-platform connectivity and agility, and Oracle is trying to supply this in a new way using an old query language in the database realm. The venerable database provider, which has added to its offerings in the data analysis market recently with the Exadata machine and the appropriately named […]

Who would have thought that Apple and IBM, of all companies, would huddle up and come out with a game plan to develop applications and sell smartphones together? On July 15, that actually happened. Come to think of it, it’s a wonder this didn’t happen before now, it seems so much a no-brainer. Look at […]

It’s been well-chronicled lately that Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft have all been lowering their rates for online storage in a clear-cut price war. While it should be made clear that some levels of its service have increased in cost, AWS has lowered its entry-level storage rates an astounding 43 times in eight years. […]

Mixing Flash, HDD Storage to Cater to Changing Workload Needs by Chris Preimesberger In Sequential I/O, Disk Delivers Bigger Advantages Than Flash For sequential writes, disk outshines solid-state drives (SSD), delivering up to 40MB per second with a single 7.2K rpm drive. Ten hard disks equal the sequential throughput of an SSD device at a […]

NetApp on July 14 announced a new deal with Microsoft in introducing NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure, which enables NetApp hardware users to expand their IT infrastructures to the cloud. The new software creates a bridge to a hybrid cloud environment that connects NetApp arrays with Azure services. To do this, it uses NetApp’s […]