Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle, facing constant pressure from popular enterprise cloud-service application providers such as Workday and Salesforce, announced Sept. 24 that it has refreshed its own human capital management (HCM) services set. Oracle HCM includes services for mainstream human resources, benefits, payroll, recruiting, performance management and learning applications. At its OpenWorld 2013 conference here at the […]

Apple released version 7 of its iOS mobile operating system on Sept. 18, and while the first conversations in this case are naturally about how this affects the company’s global consumer market, for the first time Apple now has an OS that adapts much better into an enterprise environment. And who better to inquire about […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Hybrid NAND flash and disk storage provider Nimble Storage on Sept. 23 announced a new SmartStack converged infrastructure software package that uses Oracle Linux, Oracle VM and Oracle Database, running on Cisco Systems’ UCS (unified computing system). The San Jose, Calif.-based Nimble made the announcement at Oracle OpenWorld here at Moscone Center. The conference […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle has moved its prime focus from “big data” to “big memory,” carving out yet another IT buzz phrase in the process. Mere hours after his Oracle America’s Cup team won two races from New Zealand to close the score to 8-to-5 in the international sailing competition on nearby San Francisco Bay, an ebullient […]

Nirvanix is a cloud storage service provider with a lot of promise. It has smart technology, smart people running it, previous VC backing and a number of name-brand customers, such as Fox Sports, National Geographic and NASA. But even smart companies can suffer crippling business problems; we could name a long list of IT companies […]

Database administrators using or researching in-memory systems may be interested to know about this industry update. MemSQL announced Sept. 18 that its distributed in-memory database, which competes with similar DBs from SAP, SAS, Teradata, Oracle, Birst and several others, has become the first to provide Java Script Object Notation (JSON) analytics. JSON brings a consolidated […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Imagination, entrepreneurship and venture capital are combining in increasingly interesting ways these days. A prime example of this trend took place Sept. 19 at the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley. At its North American SmartCamp event, IBM named Coriell Life Sciences and OnFarm Systems as the winners from six finalists at […]

Keeping IT in Sync With Line-of-Business Users: 10 Best Practices By Chris Preimesberger Understand Desired Business Outcomes and Strategic Goals Before any technology is implemented, IT departments need to understand the business issues stakeholders face—and the outcomes they want to achieve. Involve line-of-business (LOB) leaders in discussions and decisions; technology is too important not to […]

When VCE started up as an independent co-op company founded in partnership by EMC, Cisco Systems, VMware and Intel in 2009, the idea was to provide a one-size-fits-all, preconfigured block of servers, storage and networking that could run thousands of virtual machines in data centers. The first Vblocks could do a lot of processing, but […]

Keep Security Simple: 10 Ways to Prevent Damaging Data Leaks By Chris Preimesberger Don’t Rely On Compliance Policy Alone Extensive, stringent security policies often burden employees with costly, time-consuming training. As reading security policies is not a user-friendly experience, employees tend to read only what they feel they need and dismiss the rest. This apathy […]

Oracle on Sept. 18 filed a mixed quarterly earnings report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, showing good profit growth yet falling short for a third straight quarter of meeting Wall Street analysts’ expectations. Nonetheless, the co-presidents of the Redwood City, Calif.-based full-service IT hardware and software provider, Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, said […]

With the U.S. National Security Agency causing international concern with revelations of how it maneuvers around encryption and gets into files transported over the Internet that previously were thought to be secure, this news story may be of interest to many people. CipherCloud revealed Sept. 16 that it has added AES (U.S. government-level Advanced Encryption […]