Chris Preimesberger

Cisco Systems has known for a long time that it’s needed to move into new segments of IT because the internet plumbing business is eventually going to saturate the markets and start to wane. So, in addition to the data center hardware equipment sector and a deeper dive into security products, the world’s largest internet […]

Because artificial intelligence everywhere is such a trend in 2017, it had to happen at some point that a storage hardware maker would optimize a new product specifically for AI workloads. Seagate Technology is that company. The Cupertino, Calif.-based storage device maker on Oct. 30 introduced its SkyHawk AI hard disk drive, the first drive […]

Three of the largest advertising companies in the world–Facebook, Twitter and Google–will testify before Congressional investigators Oct. 31 to answer questions about the roles their networks played in distributing false, misleading and politically provocative ads and other editorial material during the 2016 presidential election. The Washington Post reported Oct. 30 that Facebook will tell U.S. […]

Sumo Logic’s Top Enterprise Cloud Technology Trends as 2018 Approaches Progressive enterprises strive to deliver high-performance, highly scalable and always-on digital services. These services are built on custom “modern architectures”—an application stack with new tiers, technologies and microservices that typically run on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud […]

NoSQL database and data management software maker Couchbase doesn’t put out a new version of its frontline product very often, but when it does, it’s a substantial one. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on Oct. 26 released—for the first time in two-and-a-half years—a new edition of its Couchbase Data Platform along with the general availability […]

Cygilant explains its mission with an unusual name. It is a combination of “cyber” and “vigilant,” so one can ascertain with a fair amount of accuracy what it does. Specifically, Cygilant provides security as a cloud-based service; it added to its product line Oct. 24 by launching a new combined vulnerability and patch management subscription […]

It was inevitable that these three IT trends were going to conjoin at some point: the industrial internet of things (IIoT), the user experience (UX) on mobile devices and no-code development. After all, users of software in any genre want to have a fruitful experience, or else why bother? With this in mind, Los Angeles-based […]

Microsoft stock was up more than 4 percent to nearly $82 in after-hours trading Oct. 26 after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for Q1 of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. Revenue was cited at $24.54 billion against $23.56 billion projected by Thomson Reuters analysts. Earnings per share was 84 cents versus an […]

SAN FRANCISCO–General Electric’s growing digital division and Microsoft have announced a new, more interconnected partnership involving GE Digital’s Predix industrial internet platform and Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The expanded business deal closely follows another agreement struck with Apple on Oct. 18, in which GE Digital will make Predix deployable on iOS smartphones, tablets and laptops. This is aimed at optimizing […]

Turns out that when most companies trust the care of their business data to cloud services, they are mistakenly trusting it all to their service provider’s data management services when they should also be monitoring it themselves. Storage and data management software maker Veritas Technologies on Oct. 25 came out with results of a global […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make it easier for enterprises to adopt artificial intelligence into their IT systems and software products. Why? For starters, it’s a good revenue stream for the company; secondly, it’s because this is what more and more IT managers have been requesting during the last 12 or so months. To answer […]

At its GraphConnect conference in New York Oct. 24, graph database maker Neo4j introduced something called a Native Graph Platform, which adds analytics, data import and visualization to what many people consider the industry’s top graph database. The company said its new offering expands Neo4j’s enterprise lineup by establishing relationships with a variety of new […]