Chris Preimesberger

People are often surprised to find out that most damaging security threats do not originate from malicious outsiders or malware, but from trusted employees inside a company or value chain. Sometimes the person you think most trustworthy inside a company turns out to be the mole.  It’s all about human nature. None of us can […]

With cloud services now a standard way of running IT business in most sectors, we’re hearing now about how this change is creating new digital economies. Naturally, these are self-serving in some ways for their creators, but there’s an element of truth in all of them. The “Service Economy” is one that goes back decades […]

Siri, Alexa and Google and other personal digital assistants now have a new, albeit a lot more specialized, buddy: Helena, a virtual headhunter helper for human-resource professionals and people searching for jobs. Woo, a 3-year-old San Francisco-based startup, hosts an advanced marketplace for matching employers and passive job seekers. It launched officially Nov. 14; it’s […]

Liqid, a spelling-challenged startup that has been gaining visibility as a provider of composable infrastructure products, revealed this week at the Supercomputing 2017 conference that its Liqid Grid will be released to general availability in Q1 2018. Liqid Grid is a package that uses an intelligent PCI-Express (PCIe) fabric switch with Liqid’s Command Center software […]

Startup Aparavi has a noble data storage ambition: It wants to better prepare businesses to meet the challenges of long-term data retention across new-generation, multi-cloud architectures.  Only a couple of years ago, accomplishing this really wasn’t realistic for many organizations—especially small to medium-sized businesses without a dedicated IT team. It was just too complicated and […]

Not only is the Nov. 15 coupling of Actiance and Smarsh a marriage of convenience for their owner, K1 Investment Management, it also is both a merger AND an acquisition that appears to make perfect sense. El Segundo, Calif.-based -based K1, which already owned Smarsh, bought Actiance and then merged the two companies. Terms of […]

Morpheus Data, which prides itself on being an infrastructure-agnostic cloud application management and orchestration platform, on Nov. 16  launched a new release which brings predictive analytics to cloud management and enables something that used to be impossible: end-to-end app lifecycle management in multi-cloud hybrid IT environments. San Mateo, Calif.-based Morpheus, which purports to be able […]

Eight Healthy Habits of Effective Product Managers Even though the role of the product manager has existed for decades, the surge of digital business has created a need for a shift in this role to meet the expectations of customers. Companies must deliver competitive, customer-obsessed digital experiences, and product managers must convert customer and market […]

Datos IO, which built its reputation as a data protection provider for NoSQL databases but has since branched out to cover all cloud-based apps, has again updated its frontline RecoverX product for multiple cloud deployments and larger workloads. The cloud data management company on Nov. 14 released an upgrade—version 2.5, the second update since May—with […]

Cisco Systems’ investment arm, Cisco Capital, is putting its considerable bank account where its mouth is. The world’s largest internet networking infrastructure provider is committing a cool $1 billion to the “smart cities” initiative it’s been talking about for a couple of years. Cisco on Nov. 14 introduced what it calls the City Infrastructure Financing […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the largest and most influential data storage advocacy and standards body in the world, on Nov. 15 announced its 2018 Board of Directors and Technical Council. As a globally recognized and trusted authority, SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards and […]

Infinidat, which specializes in petabyte-scale data storage systems, on Nov. 14 launched the latest release of its InfiniBox core operating software, v4.0, that now uses machine-learning algorithms to produce high performance. The rise of enterprise digital transformation requires new ways of thinking about information storage, the company said. Infinidat offers a new storage architecture that […]