Chris Preimesberger

If you’re looking for hot trends in the IT sector, three immediately come to mind: Any type of software that handles the “CX” or “UX” (consumer or user experence); anything on the backend using containers and microservices; and workloads that run in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Robin Systems, which makes cloud infrastructure software based […]

Why Future-Proofing Your Content Makes Good Business Sense You may not realize it, but your business content is very valuable. Content equates to assets that can drive key business objectives such as user and/or customer growth, brand awareness and even revenue—if formatted correctly.  In one way or another, you pay for the creation of your […]

Box always seems to be thinking out of itself. The Redwood City, Calif.-based cloud storage and collaboration tool maker introduced Box Elements, a new set of tools for enterprises designed to bring Box’s user experience—known by the currently hot acronym UX—into any application built with the company’s developer suite, Box Platform. Another way to look at it is […]

It’s taken a while, but Workday is finally seeing the light about offering its business-applications platform to third-party developers as a cloud service. The Dublin, Calif.-based human resources and financial services software maker revealed July 11 that it is making most of its core technology available on a subscription basis for those customers who see […]

Buoyant, the year-old startup behind the popular open source Linkerd project and creator of the new service mesh category of cloud infrastructure software, has banked $10.5 million in Series A funding. The round, announced July 11, was led by Benchmark Capital, with additional participation from #Angels, a female-led investment group of current and former Twitter […]

Dell Technologies has partnered with the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and 20 global experts to take a look more than a decade into the future to see how fruitful relationships might be among humans, machines and new technology. The study, released July 12, examines these changing relationships and how they will manifest themselves in […]

If we’re moving into an API (application programming interface) IT economy during the next decade or so, as a growing number of IT experts believe, then upstart Postman is playing directly into this trend. The 3-year-old San Francisco-based startup , which makes a popular API development environment, on July 12 released a major update to […]

Cisco Systems entered the data center systems business eight years ago when it added the UCS (unified computing system) line of servers and storage to go with its frontline networking, telephony and telepresence products. It’s fair to say that the UCS has been a highly successful example of the pre-configured, pre-tested server genre, because it’s […]

Data workload security provider HyTrust reported news July 11 on a couple of fronts: It announced the acquisition of security provider DataGravity, then deposited a cool $36 million into the bank thanks to a venture round led by Advance Venture Partners. There’s nothing like buying a company and then having someone else hand you a […]

A year after it finished being “rented” for four years (2012-2016) by temporary owner Dell Inc., Quest Software is back under private ownership evolving its own set of systems management and security software tools. The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company on July 11 announced the availability of Quest On Demand, a new, cloud-hosted software-as-a-service suite designed […]

10 Benefits of Analyzing Data at the Edge in an IoT Environment A tremendous volume of data is created at the sources in most internet of things (IoT) environments. Historically, organizations wanting to immediately analyze all that data from their IoT sources had few options—each with major drawbacks. The use cases for IoT continue to […]

A large number of prominent internet-based companies are gearing up for Net Neutrality Day, preparing messages against those who would revoke current internet legislation designed to protect online free speech and innovation. As a deadline approaches for comments on new rules for how the government regulates Internet service, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, SoundCloud, Twillio and […]