Chris Preimesberger

Hyperconverged infrastructure has quietly become one of the hottest hardware trends in all of IT the last two years. HCI offers a compelling solution for complex IT environments, and enterprises that were early adopters of the technology have taken its potential to the bank. It is more than capable of supporting demanding mission-critical applications, beyond just […]

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 […]

Ten to 12 years ago, the incoming IT greenfield buzzword was “cloud.” For the last three or four years, it’s been “IoT.” We’re now moving to “AI,” but “IoT” still has a lot of longevity because there’s so much more to be created, developed and sold in the markets. There’s now some timely information that […]

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 […]

As 2018 continues on its downward slope toward a new year, artificial intelligence technologies are becoming more and more useful in every aspect of our lives. Just look around: They’re in our smartphones, our social networks, our home smart speakers, our personal vehicles—you name it, there’s AI at work somewhere. In fact, experts predict they […]

NEW YORK — BlackBerry, gone from the smartphone business but growing revenue 15 percent per year in security software development and licensing, is moving into securing the quantum computing world. The Canadian IT provider revealed Oct. 4 at its annual Security Summit here that it is adding a quantum-resistant code-signing server to its lineup of […]

A couple of neighboring Silicon Valley data platform makers who have been competing in the Hadoop data storage and analytics market are finally joining forces–to the surprise of not many people in the enterprise IT world. In fact, some industry observers were wondering why it took so long to happen. Cloudera and Hortonworks, who both […]

Violin Systems, all but dead in IT storage bankruptcy waters a year and a half ago after failing to make a big-enough dent in markets owned by storage behemoths Dell EMC, IBM and NetApp, is making a comeback, and totally on its own terms. This is a company with what many storage analysts thought had […]

Major data breaches are no longer a rare occurrence in the business world. It comes as no surprise, under those circumstances, that cybersecurity in general is a hot topic. With cloud-based solutions becoming so widely used, cloud security is one of the primary concerns of IT professionals. That’s only one of the things that keep […]

When it comes to preparing for the always-possible but never-desirable data disaster, it’s important for enterprises to have a strong recovery plan in place to ensure minimal—or no—disruption to the business or its customers. Among the most important components to any disaster recovery plan? Financing. It’s not enough to plan for the technical aspects of […]