Chris Preimesberger

Seattle-based Cloud Security Alliance has some new and updated advice for enterprises that do some or all of their business using cloud applications—and that pretty much means all enterprises. The global organization, which is dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure secure cloud computing environments, on Oct. 20 released an […]

Phishing Attacks: Which Departments Are Most at Risk? Phishing attacks were among the most common attack vectors last year, according to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, and such attacks do not appear to be slowing down. While businesses may be shoring up protective efforts and educating employees about telltale signs of a phishing attack, […]

Cisco Systems has made a second acquisition in 10 months in the machine learning/application monitoring spaces. The huge networking company said Oct. 19 it will acquire 3-year-old San Jose, Calif.-based startup Perspica, which actively monitors, analyzes and optimizes complex application environments at scale. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by Cisco. Cisco said it […]

Intel Capital, holding court at its annual conference in San Francisco, revealed on Oct. 19 new investments totaling more than $60 million in 15 technology startups. This is a large step up from a year ago, when the global investment arm of Intel Corp. shelled out $38 million for 12 promising startups at its event […]

Next time you schedule a long flight somewhere and you want to take along some favorite movies or binge set of television shows, know that there’s an alternative method of storing them without infringing upon your laptop’s precious storage. You can load up a lot of content onto a small, light but very capacious new […]

For several years, Hewlett-Packard Inc. has been bound and determined to produce laptops and workstations that compete directly with similar products made by Apple, which earned an early reputation for providing high-end IT tools for artists. Some people say HP isn’t there yet and won’t ever get there, some say they are close, and others […]

IBM issued a quarterly earnings report Oct. 17 that exceeded Wall Street analysts’ estimates, and the results suggested that the venerable IT giant may be returning to revenue growth after five and half years of flat results and declines. Big Blue, like several other legacy tech companies, has had to make the pivot away from […]

Plenty of companies are providing business analytics applications that can look at a company’s data, triangulate several different queries and provide guidance based on past information and events. Cisco Systems on Oct. 17 joined a more select group of providers that are now offering old-school business analytics plus both advanced predictive and preemptive analytics capabilities. […]

Nine Tips for Transitioning to Agile Development Process The overused buzz phrase “digital transformation” is simply another name for what the IT business has been doing its whole life: renewing IT systems. Enterprises of all types, regardless of size, industry or location, now can walk this path using Agile development and workflows to get applications […]

MILPITAS, Calif.—Despite what you may have read, the biggest and most important meta-trend in the IT business isn’t cloud computing. It’s not so-called “digital transformation,” and it’s not big data analytics. Nor is it software-defined anything. The biggest trend in IT? Convergence—the increasing convergence of new and conventional capabilities in processors, servers, network pipes, personal […]