Chris Preimesberger

Zinc is back in the IT news, but it isn’t the metal or the ARM-based server Dell donated to the Apache Foundation several years ago. This one is all about “deskless communications,” which is said to be a vastly underserved sector of the work force. San Francisco-based Zinc is carving a niche for itself in […]

Cloud-management security software provider Skyhigh Networks revealed Oct. 24 that it has built out its frontline platform, Cloud-Native Data Security (CNDS) framework, with three new features: Autonomous Remediation, Cloud Email DLP and something called Lightning Link. Skyhigh’s product was developed with the idea that as enterprises move to identify, control and protect data in the […]

How Shadow Analytics’ Growing Popularity Is Putting Companies at Risk Shadow IT emerged in the past decade as a trend in which IT professionals solve technology problems themselves—usually with tools or services that are not vetted, secured or approved. Shadow analytics is an evolution and specialization of this trend—and also a security problem for organizations. […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is not only getting creative with its software development projects, it’s also getting creative with names for them. The Seattle-based organization has released new open-source software platform called Mojaloop for creating payment platforms designed to help unbanked people around the world access online financial services. There is a rather large, ready-made […]

Teradata, known widely for its data warehouses but which has been expanding its business to include data analytics software and services, introduced two new additions to its product lineup Oct. 23. Believe it or not, Teradata—though known for its storage-based analytics products—had not had a single platform that incorporated all its key analytics tools until […]

MongoDB, which has been among the most popular freely available open source NoSQL databases in the market for a decade, has taken its business to the public stock market on the Nasdaq Exchange, offering 8 million shares at $24 each the evening of Oct. 18. It was a slam-bang successful debut; the oversubscribed initial public […]

Seattle-based Cloud Security Alliance has some new and updated advice for enterprises that do some or all of their business using cloud applications—and that pretty much means all enterprises. The global organization, which is dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure secure cloud computing environments, on Oct. 20 released an […]

Phishing Attacks: Which Departments Are Most at Risk? Phishing attacks were among the most common attack vectors last year, according to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, and such attacks do not appear to be slowing down. While businesses may be shoring up protective efforts and educating employees about telltale signs of a phishing attack, […]

Cisco Systems has made a second acquisition in 10 months in the machine learning/application monitoring spaces. The huge networking company said Oct. 19 it will acquire 3-year-old San Jose, Calif.-based startup Perspica, which actively monitors, analyzes and optimizes complex application environments at scale. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by Cisco. Cisco said it […]

Intel Capital, holding court at its annual conference in San Francisco, revealed on Oct. 19 new investments totaling more than $60 million in 15 technology startups. This is a large step up from a year ago, when the global investment arm of Intel Corp. shelled out $38 million for 12 promising startups at its event […]

Next time you schedule a long flight somewhere and you want to take along some favorite movies or binge set of television shows, know that there’s an alternative method of storing them without infringing upon your laptop’s precious storage. You can load up a lot of content onto a small, light but very capacious new […]

For several years, Hewlett-Packard Inc. has been bound and determined to produce laptops and workstations that compete directly with similar products made by Apple, which earned an early reputation for providing high-end IT tools for artists. Some people say HP isn’t there yet and won’t ever get there, some say they are close, and others […]