Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO–General Electric’s growing digital division and Microsoft have announced a new, more interconnected partnership involving GE Digital’s Predix industrial internet platform and Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The expanded business deal closely follows another agreement struck with Apple on Oct. 18, in which GE Digital will make Predix deployable on iOS smartphones, tablets and laptops. This is aimed at optimizing […]

Turns out that when most companies trust the care of their business data to cloud services, they are mistakenly trusting it all to their service provider’s data management services when they should also be monitoring it themselves. Storage and data management software maker Veritas Technologies on Oct. 25 came out with results of a global […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make it easier for enterprises to adopt artificial intelligence into their IT systems and software products. Why? For starters, it’s a good revenue stream for the company; secondly, it’s because this is what more and more IT managers have been requesting during the last 12 or so months. To answer […]

At its GraphConnect conference in New York Oct. 24, graph database maker Neo4j introduced something called a Native Graph Platform, which adds analytics, data import and visualization to what many people consider the industry’s top graph database. The company said its new offering expands Neo4j’s enterprise lineup by establishing relationships with a variety of new […]

Zinc is back in the IT news, but it isn’t the metal or the ARM-based server Dell donated to the Apache Foundation several years ago. This one is all about “deskless communications,” which is said to be a vastly underserved sector of the work force. San Francisco-based Zinc is carving a niche for itself in […]

Cloud-management security software provider Skyhigh Networks revealed Oct. 24 that it has built out its frontline platform, Cloud-Native Data Security (CNDS) framework, with three new features: Autonomous Remediation, Cloud Email DLP and something called Lightning Link. Skyhigh’s product was developed with the idea that as enterprises move to identify, control and protect data in the […]

How Shadow Analytics’ Growing Popularity Is Putting Companies at Risk Shadow IT emerged in the past decade as a trend in which IT professionals solve technology problems themselves—usually with tools or services that are not vetted, secured or approved. Shadow analytics is an evolution and specialization of this trend—and also a security problem for organizations. […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is not only getting creative with its software development projects, it’s also getting creative with names for them. The Seattle-based organization has released new open-source software platform called Mojaloop for creating payment platforms designed to help unbanked people around the world access online financial services. There is a rather large, ready-made […]

Teradata, known widely for its data warehouses but which has been expanding its business to include data analytics software and services, introduced two new additions to its product lineup Oct. 23. Believe it or not, Teradata—though known for its storage-based analytics products—had not had a single platform that incorporated all its key analytics tools until […]

MongoDB, which has been among the most popular freely available open source NoSQL databases in the market for a decade, has taken its business to the public stock market on the Nasdaq Exchange, offering 8 million shares at $24 each the evening of Oct. 18. It was a slam-bang successful debut; the oversubscribed initial public […]