Chris Preimesberger

How to Protect Virtual Machines: 10 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Reduce VM Sprawl According to analysis from Gartner, Forrester and others, 30 to 40 percent of VMs can end up being unused after a period of time, and 10 percent of those orphaned VMs can have a major impact on costs. Implementing a strategy […]

Yahoo turned in a mixed fourth quarter of 2013 earnings report Jan. 28, banking $348.2 million in profit but no doubt looking for answers to a 6 percent drop in top-line revenue with $1.27 billion. Net income was up substantially from the $272.3 million it reported in the fourth quarter a year ago, so things […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The relatively new IT trend around open sourcing data center hardware specifications is finally becoming a force with which to be reckoned, following decades of sitting on the sidelines, watching open-source software take de facto control of the enterprise world. More than 3,300 software developers, IT managers, C-level executives, and various analysts and […]

Symantec has released a new version of its NetBackup data protection package, which includes new functionality to handle large-scale VMware-based environments—systems that can suffer from the data center malady commonly called “virtual machine sprawl.”The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, with NetBackup and BackupExec, owns about 33 percent of the enterprise data backup market, and positions NetBackup […]

12 Wireless Trends for 2014 Identified by Industry Executives by Chris Preimesberger Small Cells Finally Get Big We will see a few thousand small cells deployed in 2014, allowing operators to increase network capacity in localized areas. Small cells are low-powered radio access nodes that operate in licensed and unlicensed spectrum that have a range […]

More than 8,000 attendees are expected to pack the Moscone West conference center in San Francisco Feb. 5-6 for Apps World North America 2014, which will focus on the increasing speed and impact of innovation in mobile apps for handheld devices, wearable computing, automobiles and automated machines. Apps World’s Enterprise World track will focus on […]

When a company has money to spend, it either has to invest it or find some way to give it back to investors. Google indeed has the money—$56.5 billion in cash, give or take a few million—and it is making investors plenty of money, but it’s also on an acquisition roll to which few companies […]

Printed electronics provider Thinfilm revealed Jan. 22 that is has acquired Kovio’s technology, intellectual property and manufacturing assets and has opened the Thinfilm NFC (for near-field communications) Innovation Center in Silicon Valley. Financial details of the transaction were not released. Oslo, Norway-based Thinfilm uses printing to manufacture simple integrated electronics at a fraction of the […]

Virtualization software market leader VMware became a bona fide data mobility company Jan. 22 by acquiring enterprise mobile management and security provider AirWatch for $1.54 billion in cash and installment payments. Privately held AirWatch, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., markets enterprise software packages that handle management of devices, applications and mobile content. Its products and services […]

WiFi in 2014: 10 Rising Trends That Will Affect Us at Work, Home by Chris Preimesberger Gigabit WiFi Gathers Steam Users want the benefits of being untethered, along with the performance of a Gigabit Ethernet connection. This season device makers will be rolling out a plethora of new mobile products, and they are expecting to […]

SAP is morphing fast from the conventional on-premises enterprise software company it was for more than 30 years into a cloud-based software and services company for the 21st century. The enterprise application, database and middleware maker turned in its fourth-quarter 2013 and full-year financial results Jan. 21, and it had good news to report. 2013 […]

As IT systems evolve and grow thanks to the increasing influx of data from an ever-increasing list of endpoint devices, additional monitoring of servers and processes is being required. Specifically, this means middleware for servers, storage, and networking hardware and software that monitors and creates alerts for power usage, carbon footprints, performance issues and software/firmware […]