Chris Preimesberger

Routine data storage, data backup and data recovery after a system breakdown—whether the latter is caused by internal or external sources—are all distinctly different functions. But they are equally important to an enterprise IT system. If a storage system cannot automatically rebound by restoring all the company’s data in a timely fashion—which means minutes or […]

SnapLogic, which specializes in a hard-to-do-well product—self-service application and data integration that uses pre-sets called Snaps—on Feb. 22 announced updates to its Enterprise Integration Cloud platform. The new release includes improvements to SnapLogic’s Iris AI capabilities, expanded support for Amazon and Relsio and platform performance upgrades, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company said. SnapLogic, a resident […]

As cloud services become more sophisticated, they also become more granular and specialized. As of Feb. 21, add another smart cloud to a growing list of options for enterprises. Reltio, known for developing something called the Self-Learning Data Platform, launched Reltio Cloud 2018.1, a new version of the native cloud platform that organizes enterprise data […]

A few weeks ago, 550 high school students started attending daily classes at Oracle—actually on the company’s headquarters campus—in a new charter-school program that began as a special project more than four years ago. The whole process that created d.tech (lower case is correct) High School (for Design Tech) High School in the Redwood City, […]

Any sector of a market that increases revenue by double digits in a single quarter is a sector that’s probably pretty healthy. This indeed was the case for the server-based DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) market, which reported Feb. 21 that revenue of the top three suppliers (Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron) rose by 14 percent […]

How to Successfully Deploy an Enterprise Data Lake As enterprises try to extract more value from their data, the notion of building a “data lake” has gained traction. Data lakes are repositories of large amounts of structured and unstructured data that can be processed without the restrictions of a traditional data warehouse. By pooling a […]

As the U.S. stock market has been breaking records in the past couple of years, so has the storage media industry—at least in terms of capacity. Samsung  said Feb. 20 that it has begun mass-producing its new 32-terabyte (rounded off from 30.72TB) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state storage drive, the world’s largest capacity to this […]

Infrastructure performance management software maker Virtual Instruments on Feb. 20 launched an enhanced and rebranded version of its Load DynamiX Enterprise storage-performance validation solution, calling it WorkloadWisdom. The company said that the new package is more tightly integrated with VirtualWisdom, its frontline app-centric infrastructure performance monitoring and analytics platform. The new WorkloadWisdom provides administrators with a scalable […]

How IT Professionals Can Survive, and Thrive in, an Automated World For network engineers who’ve seen the recent IBM Watson commercial where the mystical cube detects and remediates thousands of security threats automatically, it would be easy to think that the robot overlords are set to take their jobs. Well, that’s only partly true. Networking […]

We’ve all seen it: The data security industry has been on a wild ride during the last three decades, from the initial “glory attacks” of the 1990s and early 2000s, to the rise of financially motivated and hacktivist attacks, to current profoundly dangerous nation-state campaigns against governments, businesses and public infrastructure. As these threats have […]

LA JOLLA, Calif.–Qualcomm Technologies is juggling a few things right now, and they all are being managed here at its headquarters in a glorious, sun-drenched vacation destination, set a few minutes north of San Diego off Interstate 5. Item No. 1: Processor software competitor Broadcom is trying to pull off a hostile takeover of the […]

Clearly, the biggest international storage issue this year is that the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into effect May 25. The repercussions of this we don’t know completely yet, but they will be extensive in scope. As a result, data management, storage and protection providers high and low are coming out with […]