Chris Preimesberger

IBM issued a quarterly earnings report Oct. 17 that exceeded Wall Street analysts’ estimates, and the results suggested that the venerable IT giant may be returning to revenue growth after five and half years of flat results and declines. Big Blue, like several other legacy tech companies, has had to make the pivot away from […]

Plenty of companies are providing business analytics applications that can look at a company’s data, triangulate several different queries and provide guidance based on past information and events. Cisco Systems on Oct. 17 joined a more select group of providers that are now offering old-school business analytics plus both advanced predictive and preemptive analytics capabilities. […]

Nine Tips for Transitioning to Agile Development Process The overused buzz phrase “digital transformation” is simply another name for what the IT business has been doing its whole life: renewing IT systems. Enterprises of all types, regardless of size, industry or location, now can walk this path using Agile development and workflows to get applications […]

MILPITAS, Calif.—Despite what you may have read, the biggest and most important meta-trend in the IT business isn’t cloud computing. It’s not so-called “digital transformation,” and it’s not big data analytics. Nor is it software-defined anything. The biggest trend in IT? Convergence—the increasing convergence of new and conventional capabilities in processors, servers, network pipes, personal […]

Facebook has found another way to keep users riveted to its pages, and this time it’s through their stomachs. The giant social network is again using its massive power of scale to inject itself into another business and is–depending upon your point of view–either coordinating or disrupting another industry: food ordering for takeout or delivery. […]

Eight Industries Primed and Ready for Headless CMS Adoption “Headless CMS” has become a hot topic around content management, especially as companies begin using omnichannel and the internet of things (IoT) systems to push content to customers. Dynamic editorial and advertising content exists everywhere: apps, jumbotrons, smartphones, airport kiosks, augmented reality, gaming consoles and so […]

By the calendar, Jedidiah Yueh isn’t very old, but businesswise, he operates far beyond his years. After 20 years of building software companies, Yueh, 43, has published his first book, “Disrupt or Die: What the World Needs to Learn from Silicon Valley to Survive the Digital Era.” It became available Oct. 10 on Amazon. There […]

If you think Facebook, Twitter and Google were the only social networks used by Russian operatives to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, you might be in for a big surprise. International election meddlers even went so far as to use the Pokémon Go gaming platform to plant fake news and ads in their […]

If you thought hard disk drives are going the way of the dinosaur, think again. WD, the storage media maker formerly known as Western Digital, believes it has bypassed a threshold that will open doors to more capacious, more efficient storage operation inside HDDs for big data workloads. At a media event Oct. 11 at its […]

How to Overcome Limitations of Conventional Discovery in the Cloud Following a few years of fits and starts, enterprise use of the cloud is growing exponentially, and wider deployment is coming as more companies adopt cloud-first strategies. IT leaders are looking for better ways to manage on-premises IT assets with newer cloud-based assets. Common early […]

One of the world’s largest and most successful cloud-based product-and-services merchants is spreading its investments in research and development way beyond its home country. China-based Alibaba Group, which operates one of the world’s busiest e-commerce sites, said Oct. 10 that it is investing a cool $15 billion during the next three years into R&D developments […]

It’s not a coincidence that the ride-sharing industry and data analytics are growing up together and maturing into the commercial world quickly in this age of IT automation. After all, getting a ride from services such as Lyft, Uber and others is all about using geopositioning and analytics to triangulate locations and estimated times of […]