Chris Preimesberger

Fast-growing Neat Company, which established its reputation with office and portable devices that scan documents and store them into PDFs and other file forms, has extended its business into the cloud. In addition to storing business information, such as travel receipts, personal health records and others in a Neat device (go here for a detailed […]

Traditional Security Controls Still Apply It may seem obvious, but many administrators forget to enforce basic security procedures and processes as they transition to a virtual setting. Antivirus, antispyware, firewall and intrusion prevention must be available on the server and host virtual platforms. Be careful, however, as these important security updates may create a storm-like […]

Recognize the Opportunity Big data is everywhere, so find your opportunity to put it to work. If your organization does not produce “big data,” there are still valuable external data sets that, if you could access and analyze them, would provide better operational insight and deliver a new competitive advantage. For example, professionals within the […]

Cloud Backup Services Can Tell You a Lot Use this as an early way of learning about cloud providers. Prices have become very competitive, getting well below $1 per gigabyte per month. Service Levels Are Key Look for specific metrics, such as guarantees that they can restore specific applications in under eight hours/four hours/one hour. […]

Even though Hewlett-Packard replaced Leo Apotheker in September 2011 after a mere 11 months as CEO, his influence is still impacting the company big time. It might continue to affect the company for a long time to come. On quarterly earnings report day, Nov. 20, the iconic IT company had good news and bad news—in […]

Intel revealed Nov. 19 that its president and CEO Paul Otellini will retire from the world’s largest processor maker next May following the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting. Intel is the only company at which Otellini, 62, has worked in his professional career. His retirement will end a span of seven years in the chief executive […]

Poor or Missing Page Titles All pages should have a descriptive and unique title. This is a great place to promote your page keywords and should always contain more than just the company name or a single word. It is also important for when a user bookmarks or “favorites” a page, as this is the […]

Search engine optimization, whose SEO acronym is being used in more daily conversations all the time, is really a matter of optimizing content in the first place so that commonly used search services such as Google, Bing and Yahoo and specialty search providers can help users find the information they seek. To this end, a […]

Hewlett-Packard, making a large investment in the latest trend in IT, on Nov. 15 introduced two new servers, including one designed specifically for big data-type workloads. Most enterprise servers already have the capability to handle processing, storage and analysis of sizable workloads in the terabytes-to-hundreds-of-terabytes neighborhood. But HP is talking about multiples of that: petabytes […]

Recognize the Opportunity The industry has gone mobile with heavy emphasis on cloud applications. However, current network architectures generally cannot keep up with the exponential traffic growth that’s driven largely by video and other rich media. New-generation network platforms that can scale are the ones that should be tested and deployed. Plan for the Future […]

CareZone, a rapidly growing family resource website that helps organize health-care information for those caring for others, launched some key new features on Nov. 13. The fully secured freemium subscription web service acts as an online central repository for key records that include insurance, hospital and outpatient documents; dietary information; financial records; appointment scheduling; and […]

DataDirect Networks on Nov. 9 launched a new hybrid flash storage appliance that it claims is the first with the ability to “anticipate and optimize” the workloads of big data-intensive applications. These workloads can entail such complicated applications as computational simulation, government intelligence and business and research analytics. Like many new-gen enterprise storage devices, DataDirect’s […]