Chris Preimesberger

Looks like the IT industry is rapidly moving its flanks to the edge—to the edge of a whole new greenfield IT industry that may turn out to be as important as, if not more important than, the cloud itself. That could be hyperbole, but be assured that’s not intended. This isn’t theory; it’s already happening. […]

eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the market. […]

Knowledge plus data are core assets of any enterprise. A modern search app can utilize that knowledge so employees can find what originated and what it looks like. You can build a search app far more powerful than Google and focused on your users and their domains, roles and tasks. We’ll explain how. The demise […]

The U.S. certainly is a divided nation around many issues right now, but concern about cybersecurity as a threat to a majority of U.S. enterprises isn’t one of them. Everybody agrees on that one. A majority of participants in a recent survey enabled by FICO understand and recognize the risk of data breaches and expect […]

A year and a half before world records will be shattered at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Samsung has smashed a record of its own in the world of data storage. The huge South Korean IT conglomerate announced Jan. 29 that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) […]

Jamf, the unusually named software provider that 17 years ago saw the high business potential for management of Apple devices in the workplace, has taken a major step forward in expanding its business. The Minneapolis-based company, born in 2002 from the desire to create a better technology management solution for about 400 Mac PCs on […]

As surprising as it sounds, Amazon Web Services, which has offered cloud storage since 2006, hasn’t provided a fully managed backup service—until now. The Seattle-based mega-company has launched AWS Backup, an automated, centralized backup service that enables businesses to back up their data across the AWS network and on-premises more efficiently. AWS Backup gives enterprises […]

Malware blossomed in several different directions in the past 12 months, and the year ahead looks like it will be a full-fledged follow-on. According to security firm Malwarebytes, 2018 came in like a lion and out like—well, a different lion. It’s fair to say that, despite a sleepy second quarter, this past year was action-packed […]

Talk about autonomous cars and the power of the IoT is expected to increase in intensity in 2019 as both enterprises and consumers watch the devices powered at the edge come alive. However, despite how many IoT devices are unleashed, their success hinges on one critical component: the speed of data processing. There is a […]

It’s clear that the customers-in-common of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Datera have spoken: They wanted to see these two relatively disparate companies—one pretty new to the world, the other a respected IT pioneer—working together and developing faster and more efficient solutions for their storage systems. So, as all successful companies do, they listened and learned. As […]