Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise managed to turn around an important aspect of its quarterly business report, but it still has some work to do in other financial departments. The venerable IT pioneer only three months ago had reported a steep drop in quarterly revenue from its frontline enterprise hardware business, the one that that makes and markets […]

Personal computers appear to be making a mild comeback in the world market, but revenue from the dynamic memory modules that run them—as well as virtually all servers and smartphones on Earth—is seeing serious contraction in its own market. DRAMeXchange, a division of market analytics firm TrendForce, reported Sept. 5 that the global sales revenue […]

Cloud management automation specialist CloudVelox has released version 5.0 of its One Hybrid Cloud software, which sports new capabilities to enable automated mass migrations to data centers with VMware-virtualized environments. With this new release, which went GA on Aug. 2, One Hybrid Cloud now enables three new use cases for enterprise customers with the flexibility […]

Everything in IT is moving to cross-platform capabilities, because that’s what the so-called “customer experience” dictates. Companies bow to CX dictates at every opportunity, because competition demands it. Parallels, which built its business by bridging the Apple and Microsoft operating systems, enabling users to cross-pollinate applications, has been ahead of this curve all along. The […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Micro Focus are the sums of many things. They are both veteran IT providers (HPE was founded in 1939, Micro Focus in 1976) that are amalgamations of a lot of intellectual property gained both from their own research and development and from the acquisition of other, mosty smaller, companies. They trade in […]

Facebook keeps adding new users (2.01 billion by last count), building new data centers (it’s now up to 10) and its desktop and mobile advertising businesses are going great guns. The market cap is nearing $500 billion and Mark Zuckerberg is preparing again for paternity leave, so one could say all is going pretty well […]

When Aaron Levie founded Box 12 years ago, he instinctively knew that lots of people and companies were going to want to store their files, photos, videos and various other data somewhere outside their own computers where it was going to be safe. That instinct has been relevant to the market for more than a […]

Quiet VMworld 2017 Focuses on Security, Building Cloud Infrastructure Let’s face it—not all IT conferences are going to be chock full with news every year, even with the continual churn of new products every few months and rapidly evolving technology trends. VMworld 2017, held Aug. 17-31 at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, fit […]

LinkedIn, well known inside the development community for its innovation, is probably most famous for its development of Kafka, an open-source stream processing platform that provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Now the social network for professionals has done it again. On Aug. 28 it released to the open source […]

Western Digital put some pressure on solid state-storage market competitors Samsung and Seagate Aug. 29 by adding to its growing mountain of intellectual storage property. The San Jose, Calif.-based data center equipment maker added to its stockpile by announcing that it will acquire new-gen flash storage maker Tegile Systems of neighboring Newark, Calif. Tegile has […]