Chris Preimesberger

How Retailers Can Better Use IT for Holiday Sales: 10 Key Data Points by Chris Preimesberger Tap Into Dark Data Assets In-Store By connecting previously unused (or “dark”) data assets from sources such as video surveillance cameras, social media, the Internet and customers’ mobile signals to traditional retail data sets (such as transaction histories), retailers […]

BYOD Programs: A 10-Point Checklist for a Successful Strategy by Chris Preimesberger Establish the Objective Why are you rolling out a formal BYOD program? Is it to save costs? Is it a recruiting perk? By setting the objective, you’ll be able to set the parameters and guidelines to run the program more effectively. Get a […]

Now that the Internet of things is well under construction, more and more IT companies are looking to fine-tune their identities and product lines to try to earn a good bite of that impending new business. Some will design and build all new products. Others will rebundle current wares to attract new customers. Still others […]

Managed Service Providers’ Formula for Success: 10 Best Practices By Chris Preimesberger Read ‘The Guide to a Successful Managed Services Practice’ Before launching a managed services practice, check out “The Guide to a Successful Managed Services Practice.” Written by an experienced MSP, this book includes intimate details about running an MSP company that will help […]

Data center infrastructure management is complicated enough as it is, so the more automated features it has and the simpler it is to use, the better for all concerned. Emerson Network Power and its software division, Avocent, have continued to refine their 3-year-old home-grown platform, Trellis, a hardware and software package that one simply plugs […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Startup Cirrus Path, which came up with a no-brainer two years ago when it developed a browser plug-in called Cirrus Insight that connects Salesforce and Gmail, on Nov. 20 launched a new native mobile application for iPhone 5. The new app will be available soon in Apple’s App Store. It will allow users to […]

Salesforce1, SuperPod Cloud Services Debut Amid DreamForce Show Glitz by Chris Preimesberger Highly Anticipated Event Each Year Because of the rapid ascent of cloud computing and the onslaught of more and more connected devices for consumers and for enterprises, Salesforce has become a pivotal player in new-gen business tools and services. DreamForce, held at Moscone […]

Salesforce.com may be the first enterprise cloud computing company to deliver a $1 billion quarter, but as surprising as it seems, it’s still not breaking into profitability. For the third fiscal quarter that ended Oct. 31, Salesforce reported that its revenue rose a solid 36 percent to $1.08 billion, exceeding Wall Street expectations. Excluding certain […]

Salesforce.com CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said Nov. 18 that his company offered to rebuild and repair the Obama administration’s HealthCare.org Website and run it for five years at no cost. Benioff, whose company is hosting DreamForce 2013 in downtown San Francisco through Nov. 21, made the remarks on live national television to Jim Cramer, […]

Salesforce doesn’t have a lot to prove at this point. Although it is far and away the No. 1 enterprise cloud business services provider in the world, it refuses to let up on the throttle when it comes to reinventing itself. The term “status quo” is not in the company lexicon. Like some of the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—As new motor vehicles replace older ones every day on roads around the world, on-board computing infrastructures and mobile applications become more commonplace and thus more available and useful to users. Whereas only a few years ago, vehicles may have had a single on-board computer to monitor the health of the engine, transmission, electrical […]

EMC apparently has no clue how to keep secrets about its flash strategy. Back in May 2012 when it acquired Israel-based XtremIO–it’s pronounced “Extreme IO,” and yes, it appears that someone doesn’t know how to spell very well–everybody in the industry knew all about the acquisition long before it happened. More than a year ago, […]