Chris Preimesberger

Move Contact Centers to the Cloud ASAP: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger Get Up and Running in No Time On-premises systems can take months to deploy, while cloud-based solution implementations are quick and simple. Whether you’re a small business or large enterprise, you are able to get your system operational in as little as […]

BAE Systems supplies big data IT for U.S. government and military deployments, and now it’s taking all that expertise to the commercial market. The Rockville, Md.-based company has reissued its TeraStar big data storage system for commercial users. TeraStar is engineered to meet the next-generation government and military big data storage requirements while accommodating the […]

Mobile Devices Rise as Hackers’ Wonderland: Nine Reasons Why By Chris Preimesberger Nearly One-Third of Mobile Apps Access Users’ Google Accounts These apps automatically log in to users’ Google accounts, both personal and corporate, such as email, docs and Google +. Then they can access documents stored in Google Docs, and potentially send them off […]

As the global IT storage hardware, software and services businesses move into another new year, we continue to see many of the usual-suspect problems, despite all the innovation that regularly emanates from vendors and entrepreneurs. These issues include the exponential proliferation of unstructured and structured data, larger and more frequent storage/archive deployments, security issues, a […]

NuoDB Inc., a cloud-based database startup headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., announced Feb. 28 that it has secured a $14.2 million investment led by European-based 3D software maker Dassault Systemes. Also participating in the round are NuoDB’s existing investors, which include Morgenthaler Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners. NuoDB claims to provide scale-out […]

Enterprise Cloud Economy Driven by 10 Market Forces in 2014 by Chris Preimesberger Heightened Security, Compliance Issues Remain Top Concerns In the wake of unprecedented security breaches and the impact on privacy expectations, the cloud marketplace will be largely focused on security and compliance. Protecting data, proving it is still compliant and customer-only encryption will […]

Much like the biblical Moses, Steve Jobs brought an entire culture out of a wilderness and into a new Promised Land. More effectively than anybody else in his 56-year lifetime, the late Apple co-founder and on-and-off CEO looked at IT from a user’s standpoint and productized it in ways nobody else had imagined. Before Jobs […]

Hewlett-Packard is well into Year 3 of a five-year turnaround project undertaken by CEO Meg Whitman, who replaced the embattled Leo Apotheker in the top executive job in September 2011. In talking informally with Silicon Valley executives on a regular basis, we have discerned that not a lot of them would want the daunting headaches […]

NEW ORLEANS–The world is on its way to becoming a truly cross-platform environment in which to live and work, a place where the Internet itself someday will fade slowly away and become an always-on utility, like electricity and water. It will be a force we’ll always need, but it also will be something we won’t […]

Oracle added some more substance to its cloud-building initiative Feb. 24 when it revealed it will acquire online data management startup BlueKai to bolster its marketing platform. Terms of the transaction were not revealed by Oracle, the world’s No. 2-selling software maker behind Microsoft. A recent report by Business Insider indicated the deal may have […]

NEW ORLEANS—Current IT industry intelligence points squarely to the greatest growth curve in sales and services over the next decade as being in the small and midsize business categories. Oh, the usual-suspect Fortune 1000 big guys will continue to buy heaps of new hardware, software and services as they always do. But with literally millions […]

C-level executives are struggling with a very real problem: how to gain access to the real-time data that drives their business. In the new on-demand economy, if an enterprise doesn’t have control of its real-time data, it’s difficult to compile meaningful results that help a business grow and compete. Most conventional enterprise performance management (EPM) […]