Chris Preimesberger

DEMO Mobile 2013: 10 Innovative New Companies Take a Bow by Chris Preimesberger Nurep, San Francisco Nurep provides a mobile telepresence application that enables guaranteed product support inside and outside of hospital operating rooms. It offers instant on-demand support for physicians, who can access the latest health care product information and instantly connect with the […]

Google on April 18 turned in a healthy first-quarter 2013 quarterly earnings report by exceeding Wall Street market projections in profits, although it missed the top-line revenue goal analysts thought it would attain. Revenue from the Web services giant’s advertising business slipped to just under $14 billion ($13.97 billion), down from $14.4 billion in the […]

Dell isn’t all that well known for its white-box OEM business, but this is becoming more strategic as the company evolves into a full-service IT provider. On April 17, the Austin, Texas-based company’s OEM Solutions unit and Kemp Technologies launched a new load balancing and application delivery controller that uses the framework of Dell’s PowerEdge […]

10 Most Common Endpoint Backup Mistakes: How to Avoid Them by Chris Preimesberger Backing Up Only Desktops and Servers According to recent studies, an impressive 28 percent of all corporate data is stored exclusively on laptops, smartphones and tablets. The modern workforce is increasingly mobile, so companies that rely solely on desktop backup put more […]

Nimble Storage, gaining traction in the new-gen storage sector with its NAND flash-optimized hybrid storageware, came out April 17 with a new, validated reference architecture for private cloud deployments running Windows Server and System Center on Cisco Systems’ UCS. Nimble’s Storage SmartStack has been validated to support as many as 75 virtual machines inside the […]

Who knew that satellite television hardware and services provider Dish Network would have both the money and the chutzpah to bid $25.5 billion to move into the shark-infested wireless carrier business? Nonetheless, this is what Dish did on April 15 when it offered that amount—mostly in cash—for Sprint Nextel. Dish Network, based in Meridian, Colo., […]

Salesforce.com’s Top 10 Hottest Mobile Enterprise Apps by Chris Preimesberger Apttus Apttus’ quoting solution allows you to rapidly configure price and quote any product or service. Apttus category-defining software drives the quote-to-cash process, increasing revenue and maximizing visibility and control.http://apttus.com/ DocuSign DocuSign is a fast, secure way to sign, send and store documents in the […]

Information Should Be Shared in Increments Open threat sharing requires more detailed, incremental programs for sharing; ones that start out with simple statistical sharing and then ramp up through programs of threat agent information (such as information about unsuccessful attacks and indicators of compromise information from discovered compromised hosts). Full data sharing of issues, such […]

Cisco Systems Cisco’s next-generation master data management system is based on graph search and runs a thousand times faster than its previous solution. Twitter Twitter uses a graph to map out the billions of direct connections between Twitter’s users. The result is that it can see who you’re following, who’s following you, who you receive […]

HP Enterprise Services UK said on April 5 that it has signed a $210 million contract with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Bracknell, United Kingdom, to design and build a secure, integrated IT environment so that clinical staff can access unified views of each patient’s clinical and administrative information. The work being done […]

Hewlett-Packard, still trying to find the right combination of people for the executive leadership some investors believe it has lacked for years, made three boardroom changes April 4. One of them was the resignation of Chairman Ray Lane. The company revealed that Lane, 66, elected to step down from the chairmanship but will remain on […]

Home’s Home Page Facebook Home will be downloadable from the Google Play Store beginning April 12 for certain phones listed later in this slide show. It essentially is an aggregation of existing apps to make for a more user-friendly social experience. HTC First Will Be First Out of the Chute Chinese device maker HTC, which […]