Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO–Heading up to a secluded ski resort or to a nice hotel are pretty much standard locations for enterprises that organize staff focus groups dedicated to starting up something new or improving a conventional process.But now British Airways, the United Nations and the UK-based Decide Now Act (DNA) Summit are raising the bar big […]

Where Does a Company Begin? Start at the beginning. Query employees and do the research. Find out the risks and costs. Determine who on staff (or in the value chain) is already using smartphones and tablets. Ask them to show you what they’re most commonly doing with the devices that may involve the company. Make […]

EVault, Seagate’s cloud-based data protection service, is at it again. This time the company is offering, as an incentive for new potential customers, 100 free gigabytes of enterprise-grade cloud backup for EVault Endpoint Protection. Last December and in February, EVault threw open its gates and gave away 100GB of online storage capacity for zero cost […]

Oracle on March 20 turned in what for many investors was an alarming third-quarter 2013 earnings report. The world’s third-largest software company posted revenue that decreased to $8.97 billion from $9.06 billion a year ago and demonstrated an obvious weakness in the “Engineered Together” hardware business upon which it relies so heavily. Revenue from hardware […]

Find and Secure All Your Data Assets In order to effectively fortify important data assets, you need to know where they are. If a breach occurs in the cloud, it is important to understand whether these assets have been compromised. If they have, know who should be held accountable. Carefully reviewing a service level agreement […]

Hadoop distribution provider MapR Technologies revealed on March 19 that it has closed a new round of funding, securing $30 million in Series C financing. New investor Mayfield Fund led the funding round, which also includes participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures. Total funds raised is now $59 million. The […]

It was a telling moment over the weekend when Apple found itself in a highly unfamiliar position—on the defensive. This is a rare occurrence, indeed, and it takes a mighty circumstance to make Apple do anything it doesn’t plan to do. Two days after Samsung introduced its snazzy new Galaxy S 4 smartphone at an […]

Even though competitors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell are now putting the kibosh on doing acquisitions, Oracle keeps forging ahead with that strategy. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company filled another gap in its product and services line by acquiring Nimbula, a respected provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Each of the Tier 1 […]

Even though Gravitant has been around a little while, it is still a next-generation IT company, because it’s taking something that’s still relatively new (cloud computing) and building a new business with it. And from the looks of things, what it makes, others seem to want. The 9-year-old Austin, Texas-based company is innovating in this […]

Infor, a company that appears to have let part of its name fall off, has jumped ahead of many of its competitors on the cloud-based enterprise application front. The New York City-based company is quietly making its share of news–not only with innovative new products, but with acquisitions, an embracement of open-source software and additions […]

Interest continues to run rampant when it comes to IT innovation. The sixth annual Launch Festival, one of the hottest events in IT startupdom, competed its three-day run on March 6, selling all of its 5,800 tickets. The event was held at the San Francisco Design Concourse. Organizer Jason Calacanis hosted about 300 IT startups […]

Western Digital, one of the world’s two largest hard drive makers, revealed March 12 that it has co-invested $51 million in solid-state storage provider Skyera in a Series B round of financing. Western Digital had previously funded Skyera as its initial outside investor.Skyera claims that its skyHawk solid-state storage systems mark the first time that […]