Chris Preimesberger

Get used to the acronym IoT, for Internet of Things, because the software that is running it is fast becoming a full-fledged business market. As more and more devices such as sensors, videocams and others get connected and start relationships, some intelligence is necessary in the software or firmware of each one for them to […]

Here’s a rarity in the storage business: a cloud storage provider apparently goes under water and needs to close down operation, leaving customers only a short time to find new homes for all their data. Information Age reported Sept. 17 that San Diego, Calif.-based Nirvanix told its customers it is shutting down its operation on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard, which has quietly been hiring new managers in various departments to help give the iconic but struggling company some fresh new ideas, unveiled a forward-thinking new security feature on Sept. 17. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT giant introduced a new self-healing basic input/output system (BIOS) called SureStart that will be installed in its […]

Coraid, an ahead-of-the-curve new-gen scaleout storage provider, is making a switch at the top, but not because there are any problems with how the company is performing. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which has built a loyal installed base of more than 1,700 customers worldwide since it started selling products in 2004, on Sept. 12 […]

A lot of interesting and useful new cloud services have been developed in the last half-dozen years as subscription computing continues to gain traction. However, few of these have been welcomed so quickly and thoroughly by U.S. government agencies as relative newcomer Huddle, a company that offers a service that basically turns any connected device […]

Long before there were Websites, chat rooms, email accounts and social networks, there were computer bulletin boards. Bulletin board systems were a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web and social networks in the way they allowed people to share information and ideas. This was 30 years ago, and it still would […]

In the most anticipated IT initial public offering event since Facebook’s in May 2012, Twitter filed a confidential version of S-1 documentation Sept. 12 for an IPO on a date to be named later. The confidential filing is a relatively new provision enabled by the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act of 2012. It is […]

Let IT history note that on Sept. 12, 2013, Michael Dell regained control of the namesake company he started in his University of Texas dorm room with $1,000 29 years ago, after persuading 65 percent of Dell shareholders to sell their stock back to him and his key investor, Silver Lake Partners. As the result […]

iPhone 5S, 5C Lets Users Choose Thick, Thin, Metal or Plastic by Chris Preimesberger Apple’s iPhone 5C Color Palette Apple’s iPhone 5C, which are the first models to use plastic cases, will come in something its phones have never enjoyed previously: various colors. The 5Cs will go for $99 (16GB storage) and $199 (32GB), and […]

Red Hat revealed Sept. 10 that it is making available storage testing as a service through Amazon Web Services, providing enterprise users a hands-on, free-of-charge trial of Red Hat Storage Server on the AWS cloud. Red Hat Storage Server running on the AWS infrastructure is an open-software-defined storage platform providing a highly available storage solution […]

Oracle on Sept. 10 unveiled several new ZFS (zettabyte file system)-based storage appliances, the ZS3 Series. The new systems use an advanced cache architecture and multi-threaded SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) operating system, which the company claims enables higher throughput, lower latency and better price/performance compared to competing products from NetApp, EMC, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Unlike some […]

Firewall Evolution: 5 Milestones, 5 Predictions By Chris Preimesberger Milestone: The Firewall as a Proxy In the early 1990s, the firewall was a primitive piece of technology—really just a proxy. During this period, the proxies were often pushed to the perimeter of a network and used to proxy traffic resources within the internal network. The […]