Chris Preimesberger

Yahoo has gone through its share of leadership change over the last few years, and now it’s happening again. The huge Web services provider revealed to the Wall Street Journal April 25 that the chairman of its board of directors, Fred Amoroso, has resigned his position but will continue to serve on the board through […]

CipherCloud on April 23 added a new feature, Cloud Data Discovery, to its cloud information protection platform. Cloud Data Discovery enables enterprises to adopt software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications while ensuring that their compliance policies are fully met and their business information is always protected. With the addition of the new capability in the CipherCloud […]

E-Discovery Management More Effective in the Cloud: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger Unlimited Scalability Some lawsuits and investigations involve millions of documents and terabytes of data, gathered from multiple sources—including email, word processing documents and unstructured data from social media. Cloud-based e-discovery, referred to in the business as the e-cloud, allows for unlimited scalability […]

Germany’s Software AG, which has been land-locked with on-premises enterprise software packages, finally added a cloud infrastructure platform to its catalog April 25 by acquiring privately held Santa Clara, Calif.-based LongJump. Terms of the deal were not released. LongJump, which only has 19 employees but whose 230 customers include Cisco Systems and AT&T, is a […]

It sure looks like Pivotal Labs has purposely dragged out its debut in the enterprise platform as a service (PaaS) business. The San Francisco-based software company, whose project management tool, Pivotal Tracker, is currently used by about a quarter-million developers around the world, was acquired by storage and data protection giant EMC and VMware in […]

EMC reported solid quarterly results April 24 as the huge data protection provider set first-quarter revenue and net income records. Q1 2013 revenue totaled $5.39 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and net income was $850 million, an increase of 4 percent over 2012. While still impressive in an uncertain world economy, these numbers […]

VMware on April 23 revealed a mixed bag in its first-quarter 2013 quarterly earnings report: revenue numbers that increased, services income that remained strong—and profits that were 9.3 percent lower than a year ago.The world’s largest virtualization software and services provider reported a profit of $173.6 million, or 40 cents a share, down from $191.4 […]

For Apple, a couple of unusual financial terms came into the conversation during the company’s Q2 2013 quarterly earnings call on April 23: “earnings decline” and “debt market.” Amid what amounts to a free fall in its stock price since last September, the world’s No. 2 total revenue producer (after Exxon) reported its first decline […]

Hadoop Poses a Big Data Security Risk: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger Hadoop Wasn’t Designed for Enterprise Data Like much ground-breaking IT (such as TCP/IP or Unix), Hadoop wasn’t originally built with the enterprise in mind, let alone enterprise security. Hadoop’s original purpose was to manage publicly available information such as Web links, and […]

Salesforce.com on April 23 baked up some of the services it already has, added a dollop of social networking, peppered in business analytics and then added a thick layer of marketing sauce to launch a new cloud business service called Social.com. Salesforce’s Social.com, a name the company has trademarked, was launched as an offshoot of […]

VMware on April 18 upgraded its cloud-based Socialcast enterprise social network and collaboration suite by adding several new capabilities to Version 6. Socialcast, acquired by VMware in May 2011, is similar to Microsoft Yammer, Moxie and Salesforce.com’s Chatter in that it is used inside an enterprise’s firewall to enable employees and contractors (as needed) to […]

SGI on April 22 added a new product to its growing storage catalog. InfiniteStorage Gateway is an automated virtualized data management package aimed at multi-petabyte storage workloads. SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway takes silos of data and makes them appear as one large, online pool of data storage, accessible from anywhere in an IT system in accordance […]