Chris Preimesberger

Despite having almost three years to prepare for the implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care reform measures, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a majority of the new health care insurance marketplace Websites struggled Oct. 1 to do their jobs under an onslaught of inquiries from the general public. Heavier-than-expected Internet traffic, mostly […]

Dell Software, which was Quest Software until last year, said Oct. 1 that its enterprise data protection product, NetVault Backup, now has been fully integrated with the Dell DR4100, a scalable disk backup appliance with built-in deduplication and compression capabilities. The integration is part of Dell Software’s ongoing initiative to provide integrated, end-to-end storage packages. […]

Internet of Things Will Change the Way We Work: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger More Efficient Commutes on the Way About 15 percent of commute time is spent in traffic, and about 17 percent of fuel is wasted in cities by drivers sitting at red lights. Sensors on our roads, traffic video cameras and […]

Storage provider SGI has joined a long list of IT companies that are taking advantage of the big data analytics trend. The Fremont, Calif.-based company revealed Oct. 1 that it has acquired FileTek, a global provider of big data storage virtualization, large-scale data management and archiving. Terms of the transaction, which closed Oct. 1, were […]

On Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 10th Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Software-Defined Data Centers: Wave of the Future.” It will be moderated by yours truly, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis.Some quick facts:Topic: “Software-Defined Data Centers: Wave of the Future.”Date/time: […]

Small-business cloud storage and disaster-recovery provider Axcient on Sept. 26 came out with a proprietary new WAN-optimized cloud sync protocol that accelerates data transfer from a local Axcient appliance to the cloud. The software does this by intelligently tracking unique block-level changes across all protected devices in an organization in real time, then sending only […]

Solid-state storage hardware maker Violin Memory became a publicly traded company Sept. 27, but its first day on the New York Stock Exchange didn’t quite turn out as well as it was hoping. The Mountain View, Calif.-based storage hardware and software maker priced its stock in the middle of the range it expected at filing […]

Virtual enterprise phone system provider RingCentral has been mentioned frequently in the last few months as a candidate to become a publicly traded company, and now that has come to pass. The 10-year-old, San Mateo, Calif.-based company on Sept. 26 revealed the pricing of its initial public offering of 7.5 million shares of its common […]

OpenWorld 2013: Oracle’s Cup Surely Runneth Over by Chris Preimesberger Big Screens for a Big Event Oracle never does anything in a modest way. This year’s OpenWorld conference took full advantage of the closure of Howard Street between Third and Fourth streets to connect both conference halls and provide huge HD television screens inside an […]

Running a Network-Centric Cloud Architecture: 10 Benefits by Chris Preimesberger Better Alignment Having a more intuitive network-centric approach provides better alignment of enterprises’ on-premises architecture with their cloud environment. Improved Performance A higher performing cloud platform can support resource-hungry applications more cost-effectively and has led providers to offer service-level agreements that are truly enterprise-class, making […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Even without CEO Larry Ellison, who chose to celebrate his America’s Cup team’s double win over New Zealand Sept. 24 in lieu of delivering a keynote speech about the Oracle Cloud, the show went on as scheduled at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. No worries. Oracle drafted Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of software development, to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle has joined the App Store Operators Club. Well, OK, this is not exactly a formal organization at this time, but if IT companies keep moving to this business model, a new industry group like this may someday need to exist. Thanks to the continued widespread deployment of cloud, mobile and social applications, enterprises […]