Chris Preimesberger

There are those who believe that innovation through native applications—those mostly on mobile devices and providing services like Uber and Airbnb—is going to lead the development path to the IT of the future. And they might be right. But for those who believe that APIs (application programming interfaces) are what’s going to dominate the brave […]

When it comes to the notion of citizen software development, sometimes described as “low-code,” a former division of Intuit, Quick Base, has been a real pioneer. At its Empower 2017 conference May 23, the company introduced a couple of key new capabilities to its application-building package, a platform that enables line-of-business employees at a company […]

Top 10 Tips on How to Avoid Damage From Insider Threats Insider threats to enterprise IT systems are the top worry for many CISOs. The perfect recipe for insider cyber-crime combines financial stress with easy access to corporate data and a host of online black market outlets ready to turn information into cash. To effectively […]

We read frequently about “things” as a service: software, storage, networking, security, rides, hotels and others. Just about everything in the world is, or is potentially subject to, becoming a subscription service.  Just ask Zuora, which has dubbed the future as being dominated by the “subscription economy.” So here’s a new one about which we […]

A new IT community resource, the Open19 Foundation, was born May 23 at a special event in Milpitas, Calif., on the shoulders of founding members Flex, GE Digital, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, LinkedIn and Vapor IO. The Open19 Foundation aims to create new-generation, project-based open hardware and software solutions for the data center industry. One of the […]

Citrix has become the latest brand-name IT provider to put a major investment into adding analytics services as an option inside its legion of products. At its Citrix Synergy 2017 conference in Orlando, Fla., the company May 23 introduced Citrix Analytics, what it calls “a new, holistic security and behavior-analytics offering” that expands the capabilities […]

Data-centric security automator Vera continues to branch out and provide its second layer of security to key cloud platforms. Back in January, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup worked out an integration with Microsoft to protect Office 365 across a number of platforms. Subsequently, on May 23, Vera will announce new integrations with authentication platforms Duo […]

Cybersecurity platform maker Eastwind Networks on May 22 released a new feature, Eastwind Cloud Connectors, that enable users to analyze activity from SaaS, IaaS and PaaS providers alongside traditional on premise and virtual networks. The Salt Lake City-based startup is a cybersecurity solutions and breach analytics cloud platform company that focuses on protecting data that […]

Enterprise security provider Smyte is defining into data what has always been a gray area of semantic content: discerning truth and lies within images, video and messaging. The San Francisco-based startup has upgraded its SaaS “trust and safety” platform with new tools for stopping the latest online spam, fraud and harassment scams. Smyte’s service, which […]

How Software-Defined Networking Is Helping Modernize Data Centers As an increasing number of enterprises upgrade their data centers with the latest software and infrastructure, they are looking at technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) services to move and protect data. At the same time, organizations increasingly are relying on cloud services for hosting mission-critical workloads. […]

Enterprise analystics provider Striim, which rebranded itself a year ago with an unusual name after being called WebAction for three years, is pioneering a new category called stream analytics, based on real-time streaming data integration. This move into data management is aimed specifically at the internet of things. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company Striim (pronounced […]

Sencha, which makes a unified software package for building cross-platform web apps that power thousands of commercial web applications, has released ExtReact, a software service designed to enable React developers to add UI components efficiently to their applications. React, sometimes called React.js or ReactJS, is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is […]