Chris Preimesberger

With the escalating number of internet of things-enabled devices, businesses across a variety of industry verticals are feeling the pressure to figure out their own IoT strategies. Organizations that may not have historically prioritized their networking strategy are now challenged to implement a robust infrastructure that can handle data from countless wired and wireless endpoints—and […]

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 […]

Ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference, set for next week in San Francisco, Salesforce on Sept. 18 launched Quip Slides, an extension of the company’s cloud-based collaboration suite that, to absolutely no one’s surprise, adds PowerPoint-like slide decks as a new element for presentations. By adding slides to presentations that already include documents, spreadsheets and […]

Perimeter-based virtual private networks (VPNs) are deployed globally for employee and contractor access to corporate networks. Up until now, they were one of the better solutions for remote access. However, once authorized, VPN users have broad access to resources on the corporate network. This all-or-nothing approach to access leaves potentially sensitive resources and information exposed […]

Bots, software that runs automated tasks over the internet with minimal or no human intervention, first appeared online in 1998, providing services to users of the Internet Relay Chat messaging system. Twenty years later, bots are seen as responsible for influencing the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and causing crises at two of […]

Apple, with roots firmly in the consumer world, has been making a concerted effort to move into the enterprise for the past several years, and many of the company’s loyal customers are only too happy to accommodate it. eWEEK has been watching this trend for more than five years, which continues to pick up momentum. […]

No-code and low-code software development, known in some circles as citizen development, has blossomed into a real DIY (develop it yourself) trend in the last couple of years. It’s all about starting with a basic app framework that can be customized for the task at hand—without having to call in IT staff to do what […]

Dell EMC continues to push hard to become the go-to storage vendor for small-to-medium-sized businesses and startups that need to have a data center or two in operation. The company on Sept. 12 launched its PowerVault ME4 Series, the fourth-generation lineup of entry-level data storage arrays designed for SMBs. These machines are aimed at organizations […]

 Apple on Sept. 12 did what it does at this time every year: It introduced a new iPhone or two (or three, in this case), an update of its Apple Watch and some improvements for its processing chip (A12 now) and its iOS operating system. Some people grumble that this isn’t innovation, that it’s merely […]

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 […]