Chris Preimesberger

We’re seeing a growing list of internet of things platforms come into play for industrial and/or for general consumer use. GE has its industrial-IoT Predix, Microsoft has Windows IoT Core, and C3 IoT has an ahead-of-the-curve platform that is already at work in about 25 major global corporations. Now AT&T has joined the group, deploying […]

Seattle-based NetMotion Software, which specializes in mobile performance management (MPM) software, on May 17 launched a new a visualization, analytics and alerting platform for enterprise mobile deployments. Built on Splunk Enterprise, a new-gen platform for running operational intelligence, NetMotion’s Mobile IQ delivers real-time analysis and alerts about mobile connectivity, security, performance and behavior so that […]

Salesforce turned in another solid quarterly earnings report May 18, showing a comfortable 25 percent jump in year-over-year revenue in Q1 2018 to $2.39 billion to exceed Wall Street estimates of $2.35 billion. The world’s largest cloud-services business application provider has shown impressive double-digit year-over-year revenue growth in each of the last three quarters, including […]

VMware has always been an open-arms sort of IT vendor, working in partnership or as a customer with a large number of companies—even competitors like Oracle or Docker—in efforts to satisfy the needs of customers worldwide. Because its virtualization software touches about everything inside an IT system, the company is pretty much required to play […]

Cisco Systems, like other older, more established IT vendors who are treading financial water lately, turned in its Q2 2017 earnings and beat Wall Street expectations–just barely. But it also had some bad news: The company also reported that it will have to trim an additional 1,100 employees as part of an extended restructuring plan. […]

Infiswift, a relatively new enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, wants to plow the field as a leader of new-gen farming in the IoT age. The San Francisco-based company, which uses a lower-case “i” in its name—except for at the beginning of sentences—on May 16 announced the availability of a new version of its […]

MarkLogic, the NoSQL database that helped solve the online registration snafu of Healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act website, back in 2013-14 (remember that mess?), launched a major update of its product May 16 at its MarkLogic World user conference in Chicago. Not every enterprise needs a big, bulky relational database. MarkLogic develops and provides services […]

Seven Conversations You Need to Have With IT—and One to Avoid When is the last time you talked to your IT department outside of a red alert situation? Most people treat their IT department like an ER. When something breaks, you burst through the doors, get it fixed and don’t go back until the next […]

LAS VEGAS–Not only did Dell EMC pile on the new servers, storage arrays and all kinds of other new-gen data center equipment at its user convention last week at Dell EMC World, it also added a new set of services specifically aimed at helping customers “get” IoT and new cloud-based apps. Services generally don’t make […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is making what appears to be the rather impertinent claim that it now has the fastest, most powerful single-memory computer in the world. However, there are two facts to realize here: a) this claim is very likely true; and b) this huge, huge computer is located in a mere single rack in Fort […]

Apple revealed May 15 that it has acquired an artificial intelligence and machine learning startup called Lattice.io, which is able to take so-called dark data and turn it into usable information. Financial information about the transaction was not released. News reports estimated the acquisition at between $175 million and $200 million. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Lattice.io […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving fast and furiously into in-memory computing, something upon which SAP has been trading for about eight years. HPE’s No. 1 such project is development of The Machine, an ambitious effort first announced in 2014 to build a computer with new technologies designed to handle the massive amounts of data that […]