Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—For the first time in its 30-year history, an international Mobile World Congress event is being held in North America, as opposed to locations in Spain or Shanghai. This event has engulfed the Moscone Center for the next week, and, thanks to the fast-moving nature of the business, there’s plenty of news emanating from […]

How Voicebots Are Making Businesses More Efficient Voice control of IT is the future. We’re seeing this everywhere in the consumer world: in mobile and home apps (Siri, Google, Cortana), connected cars, television remotes—you name it, voice is going there. This is because in the last few years voice recognition and cognitive learning have joined […]

Natural disasters such as hurricanes Sandy, Harvey and Irma are often the destroyers of family heirlooms, such as furniture, clothing and photographs. Of those three, photographs are generally considered the hardest to replace. Often, they are simply not replaceable. With the natural events of the last three weeks hitting the south and southeast of the […]

Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace revealed Sept. 11 that it will acquire Datapipe, a provider of managed services across public and private clouds, managed hosting and colocation. Terms of the acquisition were not released. The acquisition, largest in Rackspace’s 19-year history, brings important new capabilities and will enable the company to better serve customers of all […]

Why CIOs Play a Critical Role in Providing a Great Customer Experience It’s hardly a secret anymore: Customer experience is now officially a key business differentiator. CX, as it’s commonly called, is quickly becoming a priority. Companies are now championing slogans such as “We treat you like you’d treat you,” “It’s everywhere you want to […]

Exactly 12 months into the consolidation of Dell EMC, the headache-inducing reality of the costs of such a mega-merger continue to send executives at the Round Rock, Texas-based conglomerate to the medicine cabinet for more Advil. Dell Technologies announced its second quarter fiscal results Sept. 7, and they weren’t exemplary. For Q2 2018, consolidated revenue […]

Facebook is becoming legendary for building new appdev tools and setting them free into the open source community. New developers coming into the business could do much worse than to check out Facebook’s Github contributions. The social network, which releases new software tools every few weeks, on Sept. 7 announced the v1.0 release of Yarn, […]

U.S. enterprises are moving to Windows 10 desktop deployments even faster than market experts had originally anticipated, a new survey of IT professionals revealed. Adaptiva, which specializes in new-generation systems management, said in its 2017 Windows 10 Enterprise Impact Survey that businesses are moving to Windows 10 faster than they had estimated in the 2016 […]

Unifi Software, which has joined a new group of companies (including Delphix and Actifio) in the “data-as-a-service” platform business, on Sept. 6 launched a new suite of data management features for its frontline product. Last month, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company unveiled a cloud service that monitors all data assets in real time. The new […]

How to Implement a Solid Identity and Access Management Strategy Most enterprises select and implement technology to perform tasks better, deliver higher value to users, fulfill their business mission and become more agile as an organization. But it often happens that many IT initiatives, including identity and access management (IAM), deter new technology initiatives and […]