Chris Preimesberger

The concept of data storage warehouses is pretty old-school, going back to 1951 for physical document/film storage facilities (Iron Mountain and IBM), then to the 1990s for on-premises-only IT warehouse solutions. A lot has changed since Amazon launched the S3 cloud storage service in late 2006 and its Glacier online cold storage and backup service […]

A recent McKinsey survey found that companies are aggressively pursuing digital transformation, but success still remains elusive. Larger companies are having an especially tough time: At organizations with fewer than 100 employees, respondents are 2.7 times more likely to report a successful digital transformation than are those from organizations with more than 50,000 employees. So […]

On Wednesday,  Oct. 9, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 80th #eWEEKChat, the first since last May (we took a summer hiatus for the first time since this series debuted in January 2013). The topic will be “Edge Computing: IT’s Newest Greenfield.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, […]

Nearly every large organization today wants to take advantage of big data analytics to inform decisions and gain a competitive edge. For example, the 2019 NewVantage Big Data and AI Executive Survey Report found that nearly 92% of the Fortune 500 executives they surveyed are increasing their investments in big data and AI, and 55% […]

Utilization of containers in production environments, according to a Portworx industry report, have more than doubled in the past year as the ecosystem around the major orchestration platforms matures. This maps to what eWEEK is seeing in the industry overall. At the same time, the dominance of Kubernetes as the de facto choice for container […]

Companies around the world are investing tens of billions of dollars on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and for good reason. These technologies have real business-altering potential, and that’s why Gartner’s “Enter the Age of Analytics” report predicts that by 2023, AI and deep-learning techniques will be the two most common approaches for […]

We’ve got virtual assistants beginning to populate e-commerce, retail, health care and a dozen other areas of IT. Why not financial services? Can a bot offer legitimate suggestions in making financial decisions? Prophix is one company that is banking on that happening. The Mississauga, Ontario-based CPM (corporate performance management) software maker on Sept. 24 released […]

I remember well the scene back in June 2000, when Microsoft first launched .NET at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. I was covering the event for DevX.com; it was hot, muggy and totally uncomfortable outside, while inside developers were cool about getting their hands on the .NET platform for the first time. Many […]

Today: Lexalytics (enterprise analytics service) Company description: Lexalytics processes billions of unstructured text documents every day, globally. Lexalytics solutions are built from the ground up to solve the specific challenges involved in analyzing text data. The company’s Salience, Semantria and Lexalytics Intelligence Platform products combine natural language processing with artificial intelligence to transform unstructured text […]

With so much of the new-gen physical storage business moving to the PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express) form factor, Toshiba Memory America has burst out into the lead among suppliers—at least for the time being. Toshiba Memory, which will be rebranding to the more difficult-to-remember Kioxia next month, was the first storage media provider to […]