Chris Preimesberger

Facebook announced Oct. 4 that it smashed through the 1 billion-user barrier, making it perhaps the first company in the history of the world to count its product inventory in 10 digits. After all, if you’re using a service like Facebook free of charge, then you, in fact, are the product. The information you freely […]

One way to know if a person made a relevant impact in his or her lifetime is when people write about how the world is different a year after that person left it. Steve Jobs was indeed a world-changer. He co-founded Apple Computer, a company so big, so successful, that thousands of customers wait in […]

Hewlett-Packard revealed Oct. 4 that it is developing a new disaster-tolerant appliance for SAP’s HANA in-memory database, claiming it to be the first of its kind in the market. With an HP AppSystem certification, users will be able to deploy a HANA appliance that is supported by SAP for business scenarios in which real-time recovery […]

There’s a shred of truth to the notion that an IT market has made it to the big time if Gartner Research has created a Magic Quadrant for it. This is now officially the case for a new category called Gartner 2012 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. This is for Web-based and […]

Hurd Connects Strategy With New Products Oracle President Mark Hurd told members of the international press that the company’s strategy is very simple. “We’ve broken our strategy down into four basic pillars: a) best-of-breed IT in the stack; b) customized vertical integration; c) standard industry applications; d) complete cloud infrastructure and services.” This is where […]

Start Big and Think Ahead Invest in a file-sharing/file-synchronization application that supports multiple mobile platforms, such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, and ensure that whatever you deploy in the next few years supports not just the devices you are using today, but also the devices you are likely to be using tomorrow (hint: […]

When he introduced his company’s new 12C in-memory database Sept. 30 in the opening keynote of Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Larry Ellison included a not-so-subtle jab at competitor SAP. It’s certainly not unusual for Ellison to throw a punch in public at a market foe; in fact, it’s pretty much standard procedure for him once he […]

An industry survey released Sept. 28 of 1,529 IT decision-makers across North America and Europe regarding issues with data center networks shows that IT departments—including CIOs and corporate executives—are genuinely concerned about how to keep pace with the demand for increased throughput on their networks. As has been well-chronicled here in eWEEK and in other […]

Oracle took some big steps forward on its corporate journey into cloud systems and services Sept. 30, the opening night of its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison introduced two new products and two new cloud services before about 6,000 mostly quiet attendees at Moscone Center on the first night […]

While it signifies the new seasons for school, football, television and the automobile industry, fall also means the beginning of a new IT year in terms of conferences and new products. Companies have their consumer-market wares stocked for the holiday break (Apple, Dell, HP, Amazon, Nokia, Android device makers, and scores of others). In parallel […]

10 Mobile Networking and Application Development Myths to Forget Reality: Writing code for each operating system and for every device can be labor-intensive, especially if you are deploying to thousands of users as opposed to hundreds. To combat the heavy workload, companies can choose an enterprise mobility platform to develop native apps centrally and deploy […]

The European Union, which has very strict rules about the physical geographic containment of personal and business data within the boundaries of its 27 member countries, is now pushing hard to work with the United States and Japan to prevent data protection regulations from hindering the growth of cloud computing across the region.The European Commission, […]