Chris Preimesberger

E-commerce’s impact is growing exponentially, with total online retail sales jumping 15 percent from 2017 to 2018. Traditional brick-and-mortar stores have revamped business models to include digital capabilities in response. Those who haven’t transformed have been swept under the rug by giants like Amazon, who’ve kept up with consumers’ desires. That was the case for […]

A decade ago, no one could have foreseen the huge impact cloud computing would be making on business overall. The fast-rising amount of IT spending in the cloud during the past five years alone proves this statement. Demand for improved operational efficiency to combat shrinking profit margins, the exponential growth of data and globalization of […]

On Wednesday, April 10, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be ” How Will We Be Storing Big Data?” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor in chief. Some quick facts: Topic: “How Will We Be Storing Big Data?” Date/time: April 10, 2019 […]

From the boardroom to the data center, forward-looking companies in every industry are looking for ways to bring people and technology together to match intelligence with automation. This is the vision of the autonomous enterprise. Demand for pervasive, always-on connectivity to service myriad applications, users, sensors and devices is driving unprecedented change in the networks […]

Enterprise backup and continuity solutions provider Unitrends on April 4 announced a set of new Unitrends Recovery Series MAX appliances that give IT departments and managed service providers what it calls “a complete data-recovery environment.” The new appliances solve a specific business problem for organizations that lack local recovery infrastructure. Without that infrastructure, even small […]

Who knew so much bad-bot activity was going on in the airline ticketing business? In recent months, airlines have faced an uptick in nefarious activity by bad actors, a sign that this industry is ripe with information that can be used for monetary gain or to wreak havoc. The high-profile breaches at Cathay Pacific and […]

It seems as if we hear more talk each day about the high potential for artificial intelligence (AI) and the techniques, like machine learning (ML), used to achieve it. As AI grows in prominence, stories of use cases or potential, future use cases will also become more ubiquitous. Though excitement about AI and ML is […]

With the scads of data enterprises are now collecting in their storage vaults and in the cloud, backing it all up so that it’s available when needed for any employee is one of IT’s most important functions. If an enterprise loses its data due to a system malfunction, physical disaster or human error, there must […]

Business operations require data to be continuously available for efficient operations. With data growing at a faster rate than ever– IDC’s “Global Datasphere” report states that businesses and consumers will have the capacity to consume 175 Zettabytes by 2025– it’s increasingly difficult to manage and protect; yet data loss of any sort is not an […]

March 31 is World Backup Day, which reminds all of us that we need to back up all our personal and business-related documents, photos, videos—anything else digital that we value. Those of us who have lost important files in the past know what a pain it is—and how much valuable time it takes—to re-create them […]