Chris Preimesberger

Moving Virtual Machines to the Cloud: 10 Important Factors to Consider by Chris Preimesberger Your OS May Not Be Supported on the Target Cloud Since the market is young, it lacks some software components that would enable a smooth migration to your target cloud from your on-premises servers. It’s not difficult to start a specific […]

With the Feb. 19 announcement that Facebook is planning to spend about 10 percent of its total market value — or about $19 billion in cash and stocks for WhatsApp — to buy the attention of a lot of young pre-teens and teens, the world’s social network is not only getting younger and cooler, it […]

Hewlett-Packard, the IT septuagenarian that has been remaking itself in the image of a younger company for several years, turned in a fiscal first-quarter financial report Feb. 20 that showed sales were basically flat yet still outperformed analysts’ estimates. Net income for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based giant in the period ended Jan. 31 was up […]

The whispers–as well as the straight talk–about Facebook lately has been around the fact that its 1.2 billion-member audience is getting older, and that young preteen and teenage social network users are falling away in droves because their parents are also on Facebook. Well, Facebook is about to get much younger and cooler. The world’s […]

With cloud-based services now becoming a fact of life for enterprises of all sizes and shapes globally, it’s a clear trend that a growing number of vendors and service providers are following the lead of Apple and Google and building out their own public and/or private clouds as application, product and service stores. This is […]

In the non-enterprise end of the data storage business, IDC reports, the markets were as healthy as ever in 2013. As long as content keeps being created as fast and as furiously as it has been the last 10 years, the storage business will always need to be there to try and catch it all. […]

It’s deja vu all over again for Oracle in a copyright violation case. A Nevada-based federal judge has ruled that IT services provider Rimini Street infringed copyrights on Oracle’s PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) software while it was providing third-party support to Oracle customers for less than what Oracle’s service division charges. The Feb. 13 […]

Let the positioning begin. The big, all-purpose IT vendors are beginning to confront each other about how best to use and support OpenStack cloud computing software within their own environments, even though they are hardly experts on the topic. These guys had little or nothing to do with the development of the fast-rising data center […]

It’s a sad fact but true: IT managers and administrators—in storage and other areas—at all levels know quite well that what they do can be classified as a thankless job. They work hard behind the scenes to keep systems up and running, and users—whether internal or external to the system—take it all for granted that […]

4G LTE Service Is Scarce Despite Carrier Marketing: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger Making a Reality Check on ‘Faux G’ It’s a given that smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices are upgrading how we all work, play and shop. Given the relentless marketing campaigns by wireless carriers, one would think that 4G is already […]

Two U.S. cable media giants–one on the way up (Comcast), the other (Time Warner Cable) treading water–confirmed Feb. 13 that they will combine forces in a $45.2 billion-in-stock merger that will unite the country’s two largest cable television providers to serve 35 million customers coast to coast. Comcast had to outbid Charter Communications for Time […]

The man who championed the Moto G smartphone for Google’s Motorola division is leaving one money-losing-but-high-potential operation to join another one at San Francisco-based cloud storage provider Dropbox. Dennis Woodside, who served as CEO of Motorola Mobility at the tail end of an 11-year tenure at Google, will become Dropbox’s first chief operating officer, working […]