Chris Preimesberger

Enterprise PC backup specialist Druva expanded its services March 29 to include new mobile data protection capabilities that use a single point of control across a large number of endpoint devices. Whereas Druva made its reputation over the last four years by providing a reliable PC backup to the cloud, it now offers central control […]

Users Are Bypassing IT to Use Cloud Services While “cloud” is possibly at the peak of inflated expectations, the by-product of increased pressure on internal IT groups is real. Many companies are looking to cloud vendors who say they can deliver cheaper, faster and higher-quality services, and a lot of these vendors are public cloud […]

Web-based human resources software maker SuccessFactors, which was acquired bySAP last year for $3.4 billion, on March 28 starting giving its popular Jam media file-sharing application to existing customers for no extra cost. Jam enables users to quickly share media files such as high-definition video, audio and photos in social networks and on any connected […]

Everyone enjoys getting a pat on the back for a job well done, and the new enterprise social networks seem to be enabling as many backs to be patted as possible. For example, Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE), which made its reputation providing social networking analytics, on March 28 branched out to launch its new Jive […]

Apache Hadoop, Cassandra and others are getting a lot of attention as batch data analytics tools as enterprises become more aware of them. And they certainly can handle huge amounts of data that are becoming all too common. But the data on which they operate cannot be in a live production environment; it all has […]

Online storage and business application tools provider Box has opened a new section of its cloud with new business applications that the desktop-using public may not recognize, yet are popular among mobile device users. The 6-year-old Los Altos, Calif.-based company on March 28 launched Box OneCloud, which moves to a new level the company’s strategy […]

Cable telecaster and services provider Comcast, like about everybody else in the information-delivery business, is moving to the cloud. On March 27, the business services division of the Philadelphia-based cable giant launched a new cloud-based voice and unified communications package for enterprises that aims to replace old-school PBX and key-type voice-channeling systems. /images/stories/comcast-logo.jpgComcast’s Business VoiceEdge […]

Acquia, an enterprise-level, turnkey suite of tools for the administration of the popular open-source content management system Drupal, has released its own application programming interface for cloud-system deployments. Drupal, which has been online since 2001, has been estimated to power about 1.5 percent of the world’s Websites. Drupal is maintained and developed by a community […]

Understand the Security Responsibility of Your Provider Security responsibilities of cloud providers differ between service models. For cloud providers that offer services, spanning the entire stack—infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS)—security is the sole responsibility of the provider, including physical, environmental, infrastructure, applications and data […]

Depending upon where they are located in the world, enterprises are buying and using data center-related and cloud-based services very differently, researcher Gartner revealed March 26 in a new report. While there’s no question that relatively new services such as cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure utility […]

SAS, the world’s largest privately owned software maker, has launched a new in-memory business intelligence software package with a drag-and-drop graphical interface that brings line-of-business analytics to a nontechnical audience. Line-by line queries and scripts are not mandatory here, although they can be used if necessary. SAS Visual Analytics, the newest product in SAS’s High-Performance […]

Dell made a strategic international software development community move March 22 when it announced a partnership with Ubuntu Linux provider Canonical to support Dell’s own OpenStack-Powered Cloud solution in the U.K., Germany and China…/images/stories/Canonical-Logo-Small-Original.pngThe deal was announced at the WorldHostingDays global conference in Europa-Park Rust, Germany. Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (long-term support) is being built […]