Chris Preimesberger

Facebook’s finally a hot financial item. The world’s largest social network, which went public in May 2012 only to see a serious drop in capital value for more than a year, proudly posted its first $2 billion quarter earlier. Revenue was up 60 percent from a year ago, attributable to improvements in the company’s core […]

NetApp, Cisco Systems and VMware–a trio of rather influential enterprise IT product and service providers–have looked back at three years of their FlexPod project and declared it a success worth continuing. More than 3,000 customers later, the FlexPod has proven to be a legitimately popular item for inclusion in new-gen data centers that run public […]

E-Discovery: Keeping Your Company Ready to Respond to Legal Action By Chris Preimesberger Recognize the Challenge of Big Data One hundred percent of the respondents to the e-discovery survey have seen their data volumes increase dramatically over the past three years, and many quantified it. One respondent said: “It increases cumulatively 40 percent each year.” […]

SAP on Oct. 30 made available four new big data-capable applications for its HANA in-memory database related to customer engagement intelligence and one application for fraud management. SAP said it is making the software available for productive and prototype deployments through its HANA Enterprise Cloud service and is providing free three-day trials through the recently […]

Facebook’s mobile advertising strategy, which some analysts believe should have been in place before it went public in May 2012, is now beginning to instigate some real income. The world’s largest social network zipped right past Wall Street’s projections Oct. 30 in reporting its third quarter numbers, showing a 60 percent increase in revenue that […]

Mobile App Developers Should Keep Their Apps Free: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger Single Payments Do Not Produce Returning Revenue The “one and done” app pricing model leaves little opportunity for sustained revenue. After you nab a consumer’s initial 99 cents, you likely won’t see another penny from them. If You Build It, They […]

Apple reported its fiscal fourth quarter 2013 earnings Oct. 28, and while the key metrics exceeded Wall Street expectations, the news wasn’t all to the company’s liking. The Cupertino, Calif.-based PC maker, one of the richest companies in the world, posted revenue of $37.5 billion and net profit of $7.5 billion ($8.26 per share, down […]

Sepaton, which makes high-end backup and recovery platforms for large enterprises, has launched a new network-attached storage-based data-protection package that can handle big data workloads and hybrid cloud deduplication. Based on the company’s newly developed OptiScale architecture, Sepaton’s VirtuoSO also provides enterprise-level grid scalability, multiprotocol support and smart data movement. VirtuoSO specifically addresses the needs […]

With last week’s news about the launch of Apple’s newest iPads and laptops, new attention is being directed toward new-generation end-user devices—those things that simply used to be called personal computers. Despite what some analysts and industry people are saying, not all businesses can or will be run with tablets. Tablets are ideal for a […]

National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was named the “Epic Ownage” Pwnie award winner at the Black Hat Conference last August but for some reason didn’t show up to claim the trophy, is helping promote a national rally against government surveillance to be held Oct. 26 in Washington, D.C. The American Civil Liberties Union […]

Oracle seems intent on acquiring companies in areas other than its bread-and-butter, on-premises database and middleware businesses. On Oct. 23, the world’s second-largest software company by revenue revealed that it will acquire 13-year-old BigMachines, a cloud-based configure, price and quote (CPQ) service provider. Oracle did not divulge financial details of the transaction, which isn’t expected […]

As enterprises large and small look at cloud-based data storage services to augment their IT systems, they are discovering there are a great many choices of providers from which to choose. And they may not have heard of most of them. Three-year-old new-gen vendor Zadara Storage might be one of those, not being a household […]