Chris Preimesberger

OnDemand 2013: 10 Most Promising IT Startups That Emerged at the Show by Chris Preimesberger Taulia, San Francisco Taulia helps buying organizations become more profitable through automating and maximizing supplier discounts. The company works to give suppliers the ability to get paid faster in exchange for early payment discounts, to inject vital liquidity at a […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—To the surprise of no one who follows VMware on a regular basis, the world’s largest virtualization software provider came out May 21 with a hybrid cloud service version of its vCloud management suite. The EMC-owned company introduced its new vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a service (IaaS) cloud built atop its own vSphere […]

Top 10 Challenges Now Facing Network Carriers by Chris Preimesberger Expectations When a smartphone does not work, the user blames the network, not the phone or the server or the application. Users expect the network to “just work,” but the network needs to be more than just working to deliver superior user experience; it is […]

DDoS Attacks: What Can Enterprises Do to Combat Them? by Chris Preimesberger August 1999: The First DDoS Attack The world’s first DDoS attack, as noted by the SANS Institute, occurred in August 1999 when approximately 200 “zombie computers” flooded a computer at the University of Minnesota with excess traffic. Consequently, the attack affected hundreds of […]

After Yahoo announced early on May 20 that it bought blogging platform provider Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, it came out later in the day with more news: It has freshened up its free photo-storage site, Flickr, with a new interface and a full 1TB of storage for users. The company also revealed that […]

In Marissa Mayer’s first major move as Yahoo’s chief executive, the Web search and services company on May 20 approved the $1.1 billion purchase of New York-based Tumblr, a blogging platform that provides an Internet home for about 108 million blogs. Many of those blogs are, in fact, sites that serve up pornographic photos and […]

Google I/O 2013: 10 Key Takeaways by Chris Preimesberger Google Glass Everywhere Hundreds of attendees—mostly Google employees—wore the new eyeglasses-borne cloud video devices for most of the three-day span of the conference. Some people in bathrooms became a little edgy when Glass-wearers entered, we’re told. Legal issues around privacy undoubtedly will be tested as these […]

As was speculated earlier this week, Dell reported a disappointing financial quarter May 16 amid an ongoing tussle over future ownership of the company.Dell, the world’s third-largest personal computer maker behind Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard, reported $14.1 billion in Q1 2013 revenue, which beat analyst expectations of $13.5 billion. However, it was down from $14.4 billion […]

How to Handle Website Attacks Your Security May Not See Coming by Chris Preimesberger Revisit Your Website Security Strategy Website hacks are not just about stealing an organization’s data; even without data, you are still a target. Ask yourself: Are maintenance, operation, tuning, training, deployment and setup the right things on which to spend time? […]

SAN FRANCISCO–If the 6,000 or so attendees at this week’s Google I/O 13 conference here at Moscone West were hoping for more of the razzle-dazzle that the huge Web services provider showed in the 2012 event, well, they didn’t see it May 15 on Day One. Last year’s show was the stuff of legend, featuring […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Go Launcher, which is attempting to replace the browser as an IT standard, may be the lowest-visibility company in the world with 200 million-plus users. After this week’s Google I/O conference here at the Moscone West conference center, the Beijing-based software company should be a little less unknown. Go Launcher is an Android smartphone […]

On Wednesday, June 12 at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its sixth Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Sizing Up the Impact of Wearable Computing.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Sizing Up the Impact of […]