Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS — Dozens of IT product and service providers now offer various ways for their customers to either build their own private or hybrid clouds or have one of them simply do all the heavy lifting themselves. EMC joined the pack May 6 at the EMC World 2014 conference when it introduced its own […]

LAS VEGAS — Up until May 6, SAP’s prized HANA in-memory database had been available for production-use only on physical servers. Not anymore, however; VMware and EMC co-announced May 6 that Virtual HANA is now available to run on vSphere 5.5 for high-end business applications. SAP HANA, launched in late 2010, is now a $1 […]

LAS VEGAS — It turns out that the so-called Internet of things may well become the No. 1 use case for which a large IT mothership called EMC will be supplying goods and services for years to come. Who’d have thunk it? Companies such as GE, Cisco Systems, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and a stampede […]

How to Bring Agility to Legacy Collaboration Systems: 10 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Understand Strategic Drivers for Improved Collaboration The research found that nearly half of respondents ranked improved productivity as the biggest strategic driver for improving collaboration. This was followed by access to a pooled knowledge base and unifying a geographically distributed workforce. […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC, which has owned the storage hardware and software market for the last decade but faces stiff challenges as enterprise-level cloud storage services cut into its business, introduced several new hybrid cloud-related products on Day 1 of its EMC World conference here at the Venetian. To reach out to more midrange companies, the Hopkinton, […]

One of the more familiar faces of SAP, Dr. Vishal Sikka, the company’s chief technology officer in charge of products and innovation and a key player in the development of the company’s highly successful HANA in-memory database, resigned May 4, effective immediately. Sikka cited personal reasons for the move. He joined the company in 2002 […]

On May 3, the business now called Dell Inc. celebrated three decades of providing, selling and maintaining personal and enterprise computing devices to its customers. Those devices now take numerous forms of hardware IT, including desktop and laptop PCs, servers, tablets, gaming devices, storage controllers/arrays, and networking equipment. Dell is listed at No. 51 on […]

Hiring for Services: Bias Continues to Be Huge Problem in IT Procurement By Chris Preimesberger Companies Freely Admit They Are Biased Those closely involved with procurement decisions have been candid about there being a problem in their processes. More than 40 percent of survey respondents admitted they are biased by personal relationships when making procurement […]

Facebook made news April 30 at its F8 developers’ conference in San Francisco by introducing a revamped mobile app development platform. It also broke some new ground by revealing that it will allow users to access applications without having to identify themselves each time to the app. In other words, users already logged in to […]

10 Things IT Needs to Do Before Migrating Off Windows XP By Chris Preimesberger Plan Ahead for the Big Migration If you have multiple machines that need to make the switch, don’t install a new OS on all machines right away. Plan an initial pilot migration of one to two machines, which will allow you […]

As cloud-service price wars continue to escalate–mainly among the three largest providers: Amazon, Google and Microsoft–the price cuts are, in fact, driving increased investment and innovation in cloud-based projects, a new research survey reported April 30. The online survey was conducted by Seattle, Wash.-based Web services consultancy 2nd Watch during a two-week period beginning in […]

CA Technologies on April 29 released the latest version of its CA Nimsoft Monitor, a unified software package for managing IT and outside cloud services. The company contends that by using Nimsoft Monitor, IT organizations can take a more proactive approach to IT monitoring in order to provide higher-quality customer experiences. Nimsoft Monitor, the intellectual […]