Chris Preimesberger

At its symposium and IT expo Nov. 7 in Barcelona, Spain, IT researcher and market analyst Gartner announced what it sees as the most important strategic internet of things (IoT) technology trends that will drive digital business innovation from now through 2023. “The IoT will continue to deliver new opportunities for digital business innovation for […]

Vertiv, known as Emerson Network Power until a few years ago, is now joining a list of major IT providers in putting a new intelligent data management platform for running infrastructure into the market. It’s quite a pool to be joining. Waiting in the weeds are competitors such as Dell EMC, HPE, Komprise, Thomson Reuters, […]

Here is the latest article in the eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers enormous potential for manufacturing and process enterprises alike, allowing these companies to generate insights that promise to transform efficiency and productivity. But, like anything else, the IIoT doesn’t come without its challenges. In fact, many manufacturing operations rely on production systems that may be years (or decades) old, […]

It is safe to say that all IT and information security pros have had frightening IT challenges from time to time. Whether transitioning to the cloud or remedying false-positive alerts, IT engineers are often asked to think on their feet and adapt to change quickly. Although the industry as a whole has come a long […]

Internet of things investments are up, resistance to its adoption is down, and a high percentage of enterprises say information from their IoT solutions is shared with their employees in real or near-real time, a new edge-computing study released Oct. 31 reports. Rugged industrial mobile device maker and enterprise software maker Zebra Technologies revealed to […]

In the age of the mobile enterprise, one security breach on an employee’s corporate-owned mobile device in a public network could give hackers access to proprietary company data. Although most enterprises have organization-wide security policies to thwart attacks, those policies are less effective when an organization lacks visibility into the networks that workers access on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—If you didn’t know Mark Hurd by sight, you might think he is the premier of a sovereign nation. At this week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, the sharply besuited executive was escorted wherever he went by some rather large bodyguards, and he travels—even if the destination is a block away—in a large and serious black […]

Mainframes are still the backbone of data centers in a great many use cases. Big-hunk heavy-metal equipment made by IBM (Z Series) and Unisys (which owns the old-line Burroughs and UNIVAC brands) has developed a well-earned reputation for being secure, reliable platforms; this is why most data centers around the U.S. have at least one […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]