Chris Preimesberger

10 Facts IT Managers Need to Know About New-Gen Data Protection by Chris Preimesberger Your Data Has Left the Building (and Is Headed to the Edge) Employees work anywhere, at any time and on numerous devices. More than two-thirds of survey respondents perform work tasks from home using their mobile devices, while others use smartphones […]

In the last couple of months, the three largest cloud providers in terms of market share—Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft—each announced substantial price cuts. This is a serious price war, like what used to happen in the gasoline industry a generation ago. This time, Google initiated it, with AWS and Microsoft quickly following suit. […]

Hewlett-Packard and a group of irate key shareholders have laid down their arms and come to an initial agreement to settle three lawsuits involving the messy $11.1 billion acquisition of U.K.-based big data search and analytics software maker Autonomy, Reuters reported June 27. The settlement is expected to be announced as soon as June 30, […]

Google Gets Smarter With New Watches, TVs, Cars and Analytics by Chris Preimesberger G Watch The LG G Watch: Users can cycle through notifications on an Android Wear watch like this one with an upward swipe. A horizontal swipe brings more details about the notification. When a device like this one is on your wrist, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google, which already runs the world’s busiest search engine, is mapping/photographing the world and building driverless cars, is now moving into the homemade television-content business among a few other markets. Consumers will soon be able to connect their televisions and Android devices to form de facto home television studios. And that’s not all, at […]

Dell is keeping its enterprise-product factories lit up with activity, thanks to increasing orders for its data center appliance business. At the Dell User Forum in Hollywood, Fla., the company on June 24 introduced a series of new enterprise appliances and integrated server and storage systems that are workload-specific, rack-based machines for data centers housed […]

Enterprise data store provider RainStor on June 24 announced the availability of a new archive application for Hadoop 2.0 that is included with its latest release, RainStor 6. This is significant because although Hadoop is regularly used in analyzing archive data in enterprises, there are precious few expressly designed connectors for big data analytics from […]

10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Out a Storage System By Chris Preimesberger How Will Your Hardware and Software Interoperate? To ensure that the applications will function properly, you need to consider whether you have the right hardware. To do that, you need to spend significant time verifying compatibility. Is the hardware compatible with the […]

10 Red Flags to Watch Out for When Selecting a Hosting Provider by Chris Preimesberger Limited or No Uptime Guarantees This is the first red flag that your hosting provider may be suspect. Quality hosting providers offer some level of guarantee regarding the reliability of their services (e.g., 100 percent network uptime guarantee and 99.99 […]

We’re all abundantly aware that in only the past few years, a whole new sub-category of IT has grown up around storing, analyzing, monitoring, protecting and reporting on so-called big data stores. These are large caches of data that include archived conventional business data along with new streams of social and machine data that weren’t […]

10 Essential Attributes of the Latest IT Management Tools By Chris Preimesberger Automation Troubleshooting frequently includes tasks that are performed manually. Automation eliminates those boring, repetitive tasks and saves time. Collaboration Social, Facebook-like platforms let IT teams discuss IT issues and solutions in real time, before those issues become business threats. Visibility Adopting virtual reality […]

While some new-gen IT naysayers contend that 37-year-old Oracle has seen its best days and is too proprietary and old-school to become a successful 21st-century IT supplier, the financial numbers, at least at this point, are not bearing this out. Thirty-seven years is indeed an eternity in the tech world, but Oracle has proved itself […]