Chris Preimesberger

Apple has cornered the market on laptop magic for a long time with its MacBook and MacBook Air, leaving Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Dell and many other manufacturers to watch that elusive coolness factor pass them by for one reason or another. HP, however, improved its image this week with the HP Pro x2 612 two-in-one laptop […]

The Snowden Leaks One Year Later: Key Lessons Cloud Providers Learned by Chris Preimesberger Hackers Know No Boundaries One of the most important lessons to come out of the Snowden leaks is that businesses need to ask the right questions about their cloud computing environment, especially since hackers know no boundaries and need no court […]

Canon, one of the world’s best-known photography brands, has launched a new, freemium cloud storage service for retaining photos. The new app, Irista (pronounced eye-RIST-ta) jumps headlong into a shark’s tank of competitors such as Box, Dropbox, EMC Mozy, Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Drive, Apple iCloud and several others. This cloud service, however, stores only JPGs […]

All IT companies that both create and acquire intellectual property have to filter through everything, pick the right components, test them all to see that they work together without crashing and make them airtight before going to market. SAP apparently has completed that process with its prize in-memory database, HANA. Now well into its third […]

Mac OS X Yosemite Loaded With Cross-Device Functionality by Chris Preimesberger They Call It Yosemite Perhaps because it’s a “monumental” release, or perhaps because it’s going to become the “rock” upon which Apple will continue to build out its PC product line, Mac OS X 10 “Yosemite” gets a name that you can understand and […]

Brocade Communications Systems has a tidy and highly profitable $2.3 billion Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric business. It also has doubled its stock price from $5.25 to nearly $10 in the last 12 months. However, it also has been chasing data networking market share leader Cisco Systems for longer than it cares to remember–which is […]

Apple Unveils iOS 8 With Improved Siri, Security, Health Care Features by Chris Preimesberger iOS 8 Unveiled The update for Apple’s mobile-device operating system has been anticipated, well, since iOS 7 came out last September. This year’s version includes capabilities for some iOS apps to talk to each other across devices; to shoot photos and […]

Cloud storage and collaboration tools provider Box on May 28 launched Box.org, a project aimed at helping nonprofits and developmental organizations to improve business efficiencies through better use of technology. It’s also a move that helps open up some new markets globally for the cloud services company. The Los Altos, Calif.-based company also introduced Bryan […]

Disk-drive maker Seagate Technology added to its stake in the solid-state storage business when it revealed May 29 that it will acquire LSI’s Accelerated Solutions and Flash Components divisions from Avago for $450 million in cash. The acquisition bolsters Cupertino, Calif.-based Seagate’s strategy to provide a full suite of storage solutions that includes enterprise PCIe […]

Why Securing Unstructured Data Is Becoming a Strategic Priority by Chris Preimesberger Track-Sensitive Data What does sensitive information looks like? Where is it located? Who can access it? Organizational data stores are live organisms in which information is constantly being added, duplicated, edited and deleted. Awareness of the different types and locations of sensitive data […]

In a deal that has been rumored for nearly a month, Apple finally made its move and announced on May 28 that it is acquiring the Beats Audio franchises for $3 billion—$2.6 billion in cash and $400 million in stock.Beats Audio and Music, founded by rapper Dr. Dre and pop music producer Jimmy Iovine, makes […]

DDoS Attack Volume Escalates as New Methods Emerge by Chris Preimesberger Sheer Volume of Attacks Is Biggest Problem The number of attacks is growing. In the first half of 2013 alone, NSFocus tracked more than 168,000 DDoS attacks. Easy as Pie for Hackers Launching an attack is easy. Tools are freely available to make it […]