Chris Preimesberger

Cisco Systems revealed late Sept. 26 that it is trimming about 310 jobs at its sprawling San Jose, Calif. headquarters. The company employs more than 73,000 employees worldwide, so the layoffs represent less than half of 1 percent of the entire head count. Cisco, the world’s largest maker of networking hardware and software, is facing […]

Wasting no time after officially becoming its own business entity on Sept. 1, Micro Focus and its prize analytics arm, Vertica, have introduced a new advanced database coming out next month and loaded with new-gen features. This is a database analytics engine that goes to where the data resides, rather than the conventional other way […]

Data integration platform maker Dell Boomi, which previously made tools that are safe and usable only in the hands of IT experts, has simplified its platform so it can be used by line-of-business employees. The company has launched a new extension to its unified suite called Boomi Flow, a low-code development package for building and […]

SAP, best known for its durable enterprise apps and the HANA in-memory database, is expanding its presence in another direction: customer identity and access management. The Walldorf, Germany-based company said Sept. 25 that it is in the process of acquiring Gigya, considered one of the world’s leading vendors in that category. Terms of the transaction […]

Why the Mainframe Needs to Become More Mainstream The mainframe remains heavily entrenched in enterprise IT. Ninety-six percent of banks around the world continue to run mainframes, as well as 71 percent of global Fortune 500 organizations, according to IBM research. Collectively, these companies process a daily workload of 30 billion transactions. According to a […]

Looks like Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg won’t be allowed to bake his own social network cake, go public, have it all to himself—and still give away most of his fortune to good causes. Facing a class-action lawsuit that was causing plenty of consternation among shareholders, the social network on Sept. 22 killed a […]

In what could start a series of similar moves in other jurisdictions, the Transport for London (TFL) authority on Sept. 22 turned down Uber’s application for an extension to its operating license in the U.K. capital. The ride-hailing service’s London-area permit expires Sept. 30. The reason for the denial, TFL said, was that Uber has […]

Real-Life Examples of How Salesforce Trailhead Is Transforming Careers Salesforce.com is about to close Year 2 of its Trailhead program, a digital skills initiative designed to bring greater online access to Salesforce training and certification. The courses are free, and every time a participant completes a segment of training, he or she is awarded an […]

Cisco Systems has been building and selling its Unified Computing Systems line of pre-configured, converged servers since the launch in March 2009, and it’s been a source of both pride and profit for the company ever since. A UCS consists of proprietary data center architecture, servers, plenty of dense storage and a set of management […]

Manifold, a San Francisco-based startup dedicated to finding and managing essential services for software developers, has launched from stealth behind a $15 million Series A funding round. The venture capital was raised by OMERS Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Version One Ventures and Amplify Partners.  Manifold, which officially started business on Sept. 21, aims to redefine the developer […]

DigitalOcean, which provides a cloud-based work environment for nearly 1 million developers, took its franchise a step further Sept. 20 with a new object-storage service it calls Spaces. The company claims Spaces, which runs on Amazon Web Services S3, provides a scalable and cost-effective way to address complex storage needs inside the same developer-friendly user […]

Enterprise storage admins need to wake up and smell the coffee: They are trying to handle the growing onslaught of data from all directions by using a set of file systems that were invented long before any of the IT trends we care about today came into being. That’s like a third baseman trying to […]