Chris Preimesberger

Cisco Systems has taken the idea of the Internet of everything, which is simply a longer name for the Internet of things (IoT), and sprinted away with it. This is not unexpected behavior from the world’s largest and most powerful Internet networking provider. Along those lines, the San Jose, Calif.-based IT giant has been producing […]

Facebook announced Oct. 10 that it will soon delete an old privacy setting that enables users to opt out of its internal search by first or last name. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company actually eliminated this feature last year for users who didn’t select the setting, but now it’s killing it completely for everybody in […]

It was a lucky break that helped bring Compellent to Dell as an acquisition nearly three years ago, a deal that turned out to be one of the best for the parent company in the last 10 years. And Dell has made a lot of acquisitions—25 to be precise—in that decade. On Sept. 2, 2010, […]

Straightening up a listing ship as bulky as Hewlett-Packard would be an immense challenge for even the most talented corporate turnaround expert. However, after only two years on the job in a sector of the IT industry in which she had little experience, Meg Whitman appears to be accomplishing just that. The iconic IT company’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO–With the cloud getting less mysterious with each passing day, BYOD (bring your own device) gaining worldwide attention and big data analytics getting traction, the Internet of Things is the next market trend for those who look ahead in the IT business. One by one, the Tier 1 IT companies are addressing the so-called […]

Storage-area network maker Dot Hill Systems on Oct. 7 introduced its next-generation RAID storage architecture, which includes full solid-state disk support and a new, converged network interface. With the emergence of software-defined storage networks the last couple of years, not a lot of news has been happening on the RAID front. However, a high number […]

NoSQL Databases Should Support Transactions: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger Concurrency Control Concurrency arises whenever multiple clients, users, or parts of an application read and write the same data at the same time. Transactions make managing concurrency simple for developers. The main property of transactions that achieves this simplicity is isolation, or the “I” […]

Hot on the heels of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is this one: bring your own cloud (BYOC). Sigh. Another market-speaking acronym aimed to promote a new IT product or service? Perhaps, but there is some substance here, not to mention a whole new market. This is because users now have the option to own a […]

At this early point in the wild, wild west of cloud computing, there are lots of opinions about whether private, public or hybrid clouds will eventually become dominant in enterprise IT. But that’s like asking: Which of the following takes precedence—television news, radio news or online news? The answer, of course, is that all of […]

Open-Source Systems You May Have Taken for Granted: 10 Examples By Chris Preimesberger Big Data Relies on Open-Source Tools As the big data space continues to explode, so has the variety of projects that help make the most of it. Most people are already familiar with Apache Hadoop, and many are leveraging Cascading. However, we’re […]

Twitter on Oct. 3 filed its public S-1 document to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering, and it did the deed a few weeks earlier than some analysts had expected. Its chosen identifier for the New York Stock Exchange ticker will be TWTR. The San Francisco-based social network plans to […]

Data center network provider Brocade and storage giant EMC are adding some new functionality for systems in which they each play. Brocade’s storage-area networking management IT is now tuned and available for more than 50,000 joint EMC/Brocade customers to immediately take advantage of the virtualization benefits of EMC’s new ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform for highly […]