Chris Preimesberger

Healthcare.gov Debacle: 10 Lessons to Learn About Website Design by Chris Preimesberger Limit Mandatory Form Fields To avoid user abandonment at registration, companies should aim to make the registration process as seamless as possible for their users. One way to take the pain out of filling out lengthy registration forms and creating new usernames and […]

Despite a few noisy IT industry experts who believe another financial “bubble” is inevitable and could hit in the near future, 2014 nonetheless appears to be a promising year for initial public offerings because the pipeline of hot companies ready to access the market is stronger than ever. This insight comes from attorney Rick Kline, […]

Securing Email Attachments: File Transfer Trends for 2014 by Chris Preimesberger Anywhere, Anytime Access to Files Will Further Strain IT With every worker likely to have three, four or five mobile devices, 2014 will see IT work on defining parameters around the use of multiple devices on corporate networks. Big Data Analysis Will Mandate the […]

SGI, slogging through some tough times due to cutbacks in high-performance computing contracts by the U.S. government, is now focusing on other facets of the big data analytics business. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company revealed plans Jan. 14 to develop an in-memory database appliance to run longtime business partner SAP’s fast-rising HANA analytics software. Back in […]

Oracle and Salesforce.com have been competing for business in the cloud services marketplace for the past couple of years since Oracle started its own cloud services division. As most industry observers know, Oracle has had a hard time cracking the Salesforce nut, to say the least. But as of Jan. 16, Oracle is putting forth […]

Bringing the New App Economy Into Enterprises: 10 Ways to Do It by Chris Preimesberger View Your Enterprise Through App Glasses IT managers should start looking at how their back-end systems might become more modular and “app-like.”The days of hardware and software vendor lock-in, immobile functionality and proprietary licensing limitations are rapidly going the way […]

Anybody who’s ever taken an algebra class or can identify a cliche knows what “lowest common denominator” means. IT management software provider Convirture has taken that overused phrase and turned it on its head. The San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud-system middleware maker came out Jan. 14 with a new version of its ConVirt Enterprise platform that […]

Open Source Storage, which 13 years ago pioneered the idea of networked storage that uses free and open-source software to manage it, will announce three news items Jan. 14: that it has reformed and relaunched itself; that it has sold more than 50 million securities to private investors; and that it has refreshed its storage […]

Google took another big step Jan. 13 in its quest to become a major player in the connected home Internet of things market when it revealed that it will buy Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nest repurposes often overlooked but important devices in the home. Its first two products were […]

When someone says “the cloud,” the first example people usually think of is Amazon. Likewise, when someone says “software as a service,” the first example is most often Salesforce.com. It’s like Xerox and copiers, Kleenex and tissue paper, or Coca-Cola and soft drinks. It takes an extraordinary market presence—not to mention staying power—to become the […]

Oracle and Verizon, two old-school companies that have made significant moves into new-gen cloud-related products and services, revealed Jan. 10 that they are now enabling their customers to use Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on Verizon’s cloud infrastructure and pay for the access on an hourly basis. The news downplays the fact that Oracle […]

SAP, in a super-heated market battle with arch-rivals Oracle and Software AG for market share in database, cloud middleware and application services, reported Jan. 10 that it significantly improved its financial numbers during the last year. In a preliminary financial brief to selected media members prior to its fourth-quarter SEC earnings report on Jan. 21, […]