Chris Preimesberger

Salesforce, which has been buying up companies on a regular basis for the last three or four years in search of new functionality it doesn’t have to develop by itself, is now seeing the integration of those properties bring some new value-adds to the platform.A prime new example is Sales Performance Accelerator, launched on July […]

Tableau Software, which has been riding the big data wave with its on-site visual analytics software, has rejiggered its main product into a cloud service. Tableau Online, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of Tableau Server that launched July 18, enables users to share, author and edit dashboards and reports with their company, customers and partners on-demand […]

Logic would dictate that Google, which posted a quarterly profit of $3.23 billion July 18 in its second-quarter 2013 earnings report, ought to be rewarded by stockholders and analysts for a job well done.Well, the job obviously was well done, but the Mountain View, Calif.-based search and Web services giant wasn’t rewarded with any sort […]

Egnyte, which specializes in optimizing cloud storage to work with local storage, on July 17 announced that the newest version of its software package now brings Google Drive’s document collaboration into the fold. Due to its real-time collaborative editing functionality and the ability to create content natively in the cloud with Google Docs, Google Drive […]

Despite the rocketlike sales performances of iPhones and various Android smartphones for the last six years, the IT industry has known all along that it eventually was going to level off. Now it has happened. After all, there are 7.166 billion people in the world as of today, and there are an estimated 5 billion […]

Implementing High-Performance Backup, Recovery: 10 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Focus on Performance As data volumes grow and backup windows stay fixed (or even shrink), high performance should be your top priority when choosing a backup solution. Consolidate Backups Onto a Single System Using one system that scales to multiple petabytes of capacity in the […]

The building blocks of IT just keep getting smaller and more powerful. Flash memory maker Micron Technology revealed July 17 that it is now sampling next-generation, 16-nanometer process chips, which eventually will power the industry’s smallest 128-gigabit MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory devices.Micron claims that the 16nm node is not only the smallest but […]

IT Outsourcing Often Falls Short of Its Goals: 10 Common Pitfalls by Chris Preimesberger Lack of a Strategic Plan Enterprises should have a strategic plan in place before they begin outsourcing. While many will outsource their entire IT function, a more targeted “out-tasking” approach tends to provide more flexibility and control. With out-tasking, an organization […]

Hybrid cloud software startup CloudVelocity, which migrates existing applications into the public cloud without having to modify them, on July 16 released a new product, One Hybrid Cloud, that enables accelerated integration into Amazon Web Services. Using One Hybrid Cloud, enterprises can turn AWS into an extension of their data centers, since they can run […]

There seems to be no limit on how powerful Oracle’s Exalytics in-memory database appliance for analytics is getting with its options. As if a full terabyte of random access memory wasn’t enough to process most workloads, starting July 15, users can opt for a whopping 2TB of RAM in the new Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine […]

When Pat Gelsinger (pictured) took over for Paul Maritz in August 2012 as VMware’s CEO, it became readily apparent that the only change the company wasn’t going to make was in the chair where the buck stops. Thanks to its decade-long period of rapid growth, the EMC-owned cash cow had become dangerously close to becoming […]

NoSQL Database Deployments: 10 Real-World Examples by Chris Preimesberger Session Store Managing session information using relational technology has been a pain point for many Web application developers, especially as applications have grown in scale. In those cases, a global session store—i.e., one that manages session information for each user who visits the Website—is the right […]