Chris Preimesberger

VMware said June 6 that it is releasing a series of updates to its vRealize cloud management platform, largely because enterprises are understanding and adopting the hybrid-cloud concept faster than expected. The vRealize Suite enables users to manage and provision workloads at scale, including computing, network, storage and application services in hybrid cloud environments. The […]

10 Essential Components of an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan Data is the lifeblood of any enterprise. However, backup and data recovery investments can be difficult to sell internally because their benefits aren’t readily apparent on the bottom line. Just like any insurance policy, these systems matter most when the unpredictable happens, such as a hurricane, […]

Apple’s been fairly quiet lately when it comes to the news cycle, unless you count CEO Tim Cook’s recent admonishment of the POTUS–along with just about every other Silicon Valley company–for pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. However, June 5–Day 1 of the five-day WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) 2017–made up for the […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise released several news items June 5 on Day 1 of its Discover Conference in Las Vegas—two of which involved software-defined networking. The company’s Aruba networking arm introduced two new products: an new-gen asset-tracker and an enterprise core and aggregation switch designed specifically for mobility, cloud and IoT requirements. First, the Aruba Bluetooth-enabled asset-tracking […]

Scientists have been saying with more frequency that Moore’s Law may be at, or at least near, its outer limits due to the limitations of physical science. Well, IBM begs to differ. As a refresher, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s 52-year-old law is the observation that the number of transistors in a densely integrated circuit doubles […]

Sauce Labs, whose cloud-based development platform automates testing of web and mobile applications, has added a new analytics feature that is available at no charge to all of its customers. Sauce Labs Test Analytics, introduced June 1, becomes the latest addition to the Sauce Labs Automated Testing Cloud. This latest release provides users with near […]

Data protection and storage software maker Acronis has updated its backup and recovery platform with 170 improvements, including support for up to six hypervisors inside a single system. Acronis Backup 12.5, which is available in both Standard and Advanced versions, has new functionality that supports more than 20 platforms, including Windows, Office 365, Azure, Linux, […]

Salesforce has been getting more and more specialized with its clouds and its applications, so it was inevitable that it was going to launch something that dealt only with channel sales. That day came May 31, when the San Francisco-based customer relationship management giant opened for business Sales Cloud Partner Relationship Management, a new sales […]

Customer engagement software maker Pegasystems has launched a visual app-development tool that it says speeds up real-time collaboration among business and IT staff to bring software to market faster. Pega Agile Workbench, released May 31, uses an intuitive, sticky note-like interface to simplify communication by allowing business users to provide feedback and requirements from inside […]

Infor, which makes industry-specific business applications built for the cloud, revealed June 1 that  it has closed its acquisition of Birst, a pioneer of cloud-native, business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data visualization. Birst is a sophisticated platform for sourcing, refining and presenting standardized data insights at scale to drive business decisions. Infor initially announced its […]

10 Security Issues to Address When Selecting a Collaboration Tool No doubt you are using some sort of business collaboration tool, perhaps even right now. If you utilize Box, Dropbox, Moxie, Salesforce Chatter, Microsoft Office 365, Skype, Outlook, SharePoint, Jive or any of the other myriad brands out there, then you are using an enterprise […]

Multiple cloud deployments are starting to get traction as the king of the cloud, Amazon Web Services, starts getting more competition from Microsoft Azure, IBM and Google. Companies also are now beginning to shop around for the best deal for specific applications they are running in clouds that themselves have become more specialized. One of […]