Chris Preimesberger

Customized Deals and Promotions The simple buyer/seller model does not exist in today’s economy. ABB allows businesses to adjust rates, promotions, discounts, accelerators, multi-axis pricing and more. These modifications are easy to incorporate into existing processes and increase opportunities to grow the business. Flexible Business Models ABB can automate business processes and business models to […]

Headline Newsmaker: Nexus 7 The debut of the Nexus 7, which will begin shipping in July, was the main headline from Google I/O, although plenty of other news was announced. The Nexus 7 is a powerful new tablet that will compete not only with Amazon’s Kindle and others, but also directly with the market leader, […]

Design for Your Fears Embrace, do not fear, rapidly evolving computing realities. The typical IT design for the cloud considers that the exceptions of yesterday’s business world have become the assumptions of today’s world. Personal productivity devices in the workplace, combined with the security threats and attack tactics associated with them, must be balanced with […]

Connected Car Only a small percentage of vehicles are now connected to Web services, but not so in the future. All cars and trucks eventually will be connected to both home and service systems, and they will be creating their own data streams, thanks largely to Intel Labs’ work. They will interact not only with […]

By acquiring Yammer June 25, Microsoft revealed two important things: first, it has finally awakened to adding a tried-and-true social network as a major focus of its catalog; and second, SharePoint isn’t the socially aware work collaboration offering it had once purported it to be. For the last five years, Microsoft has been selling its […]

Hewlett-Packard had two widely differing news stories on June 25 — one good and one not-so-good. The IT hardware, software and services giant announced that it has landed a 10-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinitely Quantity (IDIQ) contract to supply various software and data center-related services for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. This is […]

International accounting, auditing and financial advisory services firm Deloitte revealed June 25 that it has acquired the key assets of IE Discovery, a federal government provider of electronic discovery management and litigation support software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP, was the division making […]

Rackspace President Lew Moorman, speaking at GigaOM Structure 2012 in San Francisco on June 20 on “Cloud Lock-in and the Myth of Open APIs,” tackled a topic that’s always lurking in the back of the minds of software developers and IT managers: vendor lock-in via platforms as a service. Cloud application development, like most software, […]

Box has added yet another new enterprise collaboration tool option for its users. The Los Altos, Calif.-based cloud storage and Web tools provider already offers connections to Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Google Docs. The latest one, as of June 20, is LiquidPlanner, a cloud app that enables teams to share information and collaborate by attaching Box […]

NextIO, a provider of input/output acceleration appliances for storage systems, announced June 20 that it has upgraded its vNET I/O Maestro package with the release of nControl Version 2.2. The new version of vNET I/O Maestro solves a common data movement problem by simplifying assignment of managed switch resources to virtual machines. The new package […]

Microblogging social network Twitter suffered a debilitating denial-of-service attack June 21, beginning at 9:09 a.m. PST and rendering the site inaccessible for intermittent periods for several hours. The site came back up at around 10:06 a.m. PST and then went down for various spans of time after that. An administrator posted the following message and […]

Oracle on June 20 absorbed a second legal defeat from Google by accepting zero financial damages in the first step of its quest to sue the search engine company for using Java application programming interfaces in Android without purchasing a license for them. In the landmark IT court case that began April 16, a federal […]