Chris Preimesberger

InHerSight.com’s Top 10 IT Companies for Women to Work For in 2017 Each year we read about “Fortune’s Best 100 Companies to Work For” in the United States. Google has been No. 1 for eight of the last 11 years; others like NetApp, SAS and Salesforce are regulars on that list. Now there’s a list […]

Ever wanted to ask Amazon’s Alexa for the newest menu items at your favorite restaurant? It’s now possible, if the restaurant uses omnichannel content management to publish its information where potential customers live. Along these lines, publishing system provider DNN Software April 26 released an assortment of new channels in Liquid Content, which serves as […]

The concept of a “serverless” application, as ethereal as it sounds, can be easily misunderstood—perhaps because the sound of it borders on fake news. “Obviously, ‘serverless’ doesn’t mean there are no servers anymore; it means you don’t have to worry about servers anymore,” IBM’s Michael Behrendt told eWEEK. Then perhaps we should call it “worryless” […]

Oracle is venturing into challenging waters by going head-to-head with industry leader Adobe and several others when it comes to CX, also known as “customer experience.” Of course, challenges in numerous markets haven’t scared off Oracle in the past. The database giant on April 26 launched its Oracle Content and Experience Cloud, a so-called “digital […]

IBM, feeling heavy pressure from a bevy of competitors in its quest to increase the monetization of its cloud services and storage capacity, is expanding the locations for running its cloud. The company on April 26 announced the opening of four new cloud data centers in the U.S.: two in Dallas, Texas and two in […]

Most of us know about Fox News chief Roger Ailes’ $40 million golden parachute in 2016, Bill O’Reilly’s $25 million parting-ways package a few weeks ago and United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek’s huge going-away gift in 2015. Turns out those were all peanuts compared to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s soon-to-come $100 million-plus out-the-door prize as […]

Ransomware Recovery 101: You’ve Been Hit, Now What Do You Do? Ransomware is coming to your neighborhood. Now a $1 billion-per-year industry, ransomware has quickly become one of IT and security pros’ biggest fears. According to a recent study by CyberEdge Group, more than 60 percent of organizations are likely to experience an attack. The […]

Rubrik, which wants all its customers to forget about the intricacies of IT data storage management so its automated processes can handle it, announced April 25 that its scale-out software for data protection of cloud-native applications now runs in AWS, Microsoft Azure or both. Rubrik has always been about new-gen hybrid storage systems comprised of […]

There are good reasons why Austin-based Pivot3, which specializes in hyperconverged IT infrastructure hardware and software, saw its revenue grow 84 percent year-over-year in 2016. Those reasons are probably these: 1) The market itself is exploding, and 2) Pivot3 must be doing something right. The latest news in this sector is about the April 25 […]

IBM Watson is branching out. Most well known for defeating multiple-time champion Ken Jennings in “Jeopardy” several years ago and for helping doctors determine the best meds for their patients, Watson is now going industrial; IBM is bringing its formidable artificial intelligence to the factory floor. At a moment when manufacturers are starting to experiment […]

Violin Memory had been waiting nervously for months, wondering what the future would hold. Finally, the answer came. Violin Memory filed an SEC affidavit April 21 that explained its emergence from bankruptcy announced last December, then revealed April 24 that it had completed a restructuring and sale process to Quantum Partners LP, a private investment […]

Driving by Oracle’s gleaming blue-green, Emerald City-like headquarters on the San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, Calif., one could say that it resembles a castle that Larry Ellison built. Which is pretty close to what it is. Now the company castle has a Moat to go with it. The world’s largest database maker reportedly will […]