Chris Preimesberger

8 Tips for Creating an Effective Data Recovery and Protection Plan As enterprises update their information technology to handle the increasing volume and velocity of data from more and more sources, the eyes of IT are also on disaster recovery and data protection. While IT administrators know that digital transformation will stop if ever the […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Like a lot of IT product and service providers, Oracle is all in for the idea of making artificial intelligence available wherever possible. Unlike a lot of IT product and service providers, the world’s largest and most successful database provider actually has the deep pockets and wherewithal to pull this off. Only a handful […]

SAN FRANCISCO–If everything Oracle CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison said the evening of Oct. 1 is true, then the company’s board of directors, investors and stockholders had better have a meeting and find out whether Oracle will actually be able to make a profit from this new-fangled cloud-service business. Ellison spent a good portion of […]

Cambridge, Mass.-based Pega on Sept. 29 introduced an industry-first product called T-Switch that gives organizations direct control over the transparency of their artificial intelligence customer engagement models. Included within the latest release of Pega’s AI-powered Customer Decision Hub, T-Switch enables business users new levels of oversight to safely deploy AI based on their organization’s transparency […]

French technology company Akeneo on Sept. 29 released its 2.0 version of its popular product information management platform. The fully redesigned new version features a robust new PIM user interface, allowing brands and retailers to deliver product information across channels. Product information management (PIM) means managing the information required to market and sell products through […]

Enterprise IT shops can never know too much about their systems, applications, networks and security–and the virtual health of all four. Systems often have inherent blind spots in their application environments, which are becoming increasingly dominated by numerous microservices based on Docker containers and Kubernetes schedulers. They can’t see everything that’s going on, and as […]

San Francisco-based startup Splice Machine, which makes a database management system fine-tuned for hybrid clouds, has made public a release of its database-as-a-service platform on Amazon Web Services Marketplace. The company made the announcement at Strata + Hadoop World New York 2017 on Sept. 25. Using this DBMS, the company claims that enterprises can develop […]

Turns out that Quest Software, which hasn’t been mentioned all that often in DevOps conversations, has had the basic tools for DevOps shops on its shelves all along. They simply hadn’t been assembled, labeled or marketed as such. The DevOps development approach helps developers and operations experts work together more effectively in order to produce […]

Maxta, a rising independent supplier of hyperconverged enterprise storage software, on Sept. 28 added new functionality that enables IT shops to migrate virtual machines from VMware’s ESXi to Red Hat virtualization and to run both hypervisors on the Maxta platform. In this brave new world of mix-and-match everything inside data centers and across supply chains, […]

Common Misconceptions About Docker, Containers and Microservices You can’t work for any length of time in the tech industry in 2017 without hearing or reading about microservices and container deployments. In the past four years alone, the proliferation of containers–spearheaded by Docker—has transformed how organizations look at computing and what it means for their business […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, despite being one of the solid senior citizens of the IT business, has been having a tough time the last few years finding its footing as the market moves from hardware- to cloudware-based. Many midrange-size businesses are in the same boat. As the role of IT vendors evolves from supplying backend hardware and […]

Dell EMC, as well as the separate Dell and EMC companies in years gone by, have been hugely important customer/partners with Microsoft since the 1980s. Nearing the end of 2017 and moving into the new year, it looks like that key relationship is going to get even more strategic for everybody. The news Sept. 27 […]