Chris Preimesberger

When an important trend impacts verticals such as IT, supporting technologies affected by the trend are amended to accommodate new software, hardware or services that fit into the trend. These often become major selling points for supporting tech companies. A good example of this happened two-and-a-half years ago when VMware came up with Lightwave and […]

Any company that can persuade IT heavyweights such as John Thompson and Ed Zander to be on the board of directors is a company with which to be reckoned. StorONE, which last week introduced for early adopters a new type of storage software called TRU (for Total Resource Utilization), is that company.  Thompson, chairman of […]

Hyperscaling at Speed: Insights From Airbnb, Spotify, Shippo, Others Businesses that enter hypergrowth mode face challenges across all aspects of the organization—from technology, sales, marketing and more—but importantly, it affects the core of the company, its customers. If companies don’t scale fast enough, they lose their industry-leading position and somebody else gets to enjoy the […]

In exactly six months—May 25, 2018, to be precise—the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. Businesses already are on a tight deadline to get their artificial intelligence and email applications ready for it. The GDPR is all about artificial intelligence and the personal-information data that supplies it. Enterprises are increasingly deploying […]

If IT were a television show, it would be “Hoarders.” Organizations are creating and storing more and more data every day, and they’re having a difficulty finding effective places to put it all. In fact, according to research by IDC, by 2020 we will hit the 44 zettabyte mark, with about 80 percent of the […]

How Good Collaboration Software Can Help Erase Shadow IT Most organizations contend that content security is always their highest priority. However, unless content collaboration technology is easy to use, users will inevitably turn to less-secure shadow IT solutions like Dropbox, Evernote and Google Drive. Why? Employees simply want to be productive and get work done. […]

People are often surprised to find out that most damaging security threats do not originate from malicious outsiders or malware, but from trusted employees inside a company or value chain. Sometimes the person you think most trustworthy inside a company turns out to be the mole.  It’s all about human nature. None of us can […]

With cloud services now a standard way of running IT business in most sectors, we’re hearing now about how this change is creating new digital economies. Naturally, these are self-serving in some ways for their creators, but there’s an element of truth in all of them. The “Service Economy” is one that goes back decades […]

Siri, Alexa and Google and other personal digital assistants now have a new, albeit a lot more specialized, buddy: Helena, a virtual headhunter helper for human-resource professionals and people searching for jobs. Woo, a 3-year-old San Francisco-based startup, hosts an advanced marketplace for matching employers and passive job seekers. It launched officially Nov. 14; it’s […]

Liqid, a spelling-challenged startup that has been gaining visibility as a provider of composable infrastructure products, revealed this week at the Supercomputing 2017 conference that its Liqid Grid will be released to general availability in Q1 2018. Liqid Grid is a package that uses an intelligent PCI-Express (PCIe) fabric switch with Liqid’s Command Center software […]