Chris Preimesberger

How Enterprises Can Reduce Employees’ Urge to Use Shadow IT Enterprises consider content security as a high priority. However, unless content collaboration tools are easy to use, users inevitably will turn to less-secure shadow IT apps, such as Dropbox, Box, Evernote and Google Drive. Why? Employees simply want to be productive and get work done. […]

Datameer, which made its reputation as the first big data platform purpose-built for Hadoop batch processing, is expanding its horizons into new territory. The San Francisco-based company has released a new data visualizer so business analysts can be more interactive about exploring datasets of any size. The company claims this new feature, called Visual Explorer, […]

Software may actually be eating the world, as inventor/entrepreneur Marc Andreessen famously said, but it’s also elbowing its way into more prominence within the U.S. overall economy. Despite ongoing discussions about the slow, tedious pace of growth in the U.S. economy, software’s economic impact is surging, according to a new study released by Software.org.   […]

Fake news is pretty hard to eradicate from the media. In fact, it’s impossible, because so much of the information on the internet is false, misleading or just plain lies. Too many people are willing to lie and publish it. Facebook, which as the world’s largest social network is already under increasing public and government […]

Now that more than half of all enterprises are using—or at least testing—cloud services in one department or another, CIOs are finding it important to take a more accurate accounting of how much corporate spend they’re using for clouds. To this end, Stockholm-based Snow Software, which specializes in software asset management and cloud spend management […]

Cloud applications are using automation, robotics and other new-gen IT features to put more real-time and real-world capabilities into work flows. For example, FloQast, a Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based provider of financial close management software created by accountants for accountants, has released new Robotics Process Automation (RPA) connectors for existing on-premises enterprise resource planning solutions.   […]

Key Takeaways From Oracle OpenWorld: AI, Security, ‘Cheap’ Cloud Oracle took over a large section of downtown San Francisco Oct. 1-5 as it does every fall to stage its OpenWorld conference for 23,000 attendees. There was a lot of news this year, starting with the announcement of a virtual price war with Amazon Web Services […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Oracle has joined the emerging world of blockchain financial-exchange security IT with the launching of the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service at OpenWorld 2017. The advanced, enterprise-grade distributed ledger cloud platform enables customers to speed up the pace of business and reduce cost and risk by securely extending enterprise resource planning, supply chain and other […]

Intel Corp. on Oct. 3 announced that its former CEO, Paul Otellini died in his sleep Oct. 2. He was 66. Mr. Otellini became Intel’s fifth chief executive officer in 2005. Under his leadership the company made important strategic, technological and financial gains, including transforming operations and cost structure for long-term growth; assuming a leadership […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Oracle on Oct. 2 at its annual OpenWorld conference at Moscone Center revealed new artificial intelligence-based apps for a phalanx of business applications. The new Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps are built into the existing Oracle Cloud Applications in order to provide useful AI-based modern business applications. In this video interview, Steve Miranda, Executive Vice-President […]