Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 71st monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Why Voice UI Eventually Will Enable Everything.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat Sept. 12: “Why Voice UI Eventually Will […]

At its first Spark technology conference in San Francisco, AT&T said Sept. 10 that it plans to introduce mobile 5G in sections of five additional U.S. cities––Houston, Jacksonville, Louisville, New Orleans, and San Antonio––before the end of this year. These new cities are in addition to seven cities where the huge telecom already announced plans […]

AT&T is thinking literally outside the wire in a new project designed to expand the availability of gigabit-speed internet power resources for wireless, edge computing and the IoT. Project AirGig, introduced Sept. 10 at the telecom’s first Spark tech conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, could well become a mainstay of […]

As we increasingly connect personal email addresses with access to cloud services, web apps and SaaS-based systems, the security of old-fashioned but “killer app” email has become more important than ever. For example, think about all the times you log into a web application of some kind and use your IDs from Facebook, Google, Yahoo […]

After providing a viable alternative for enterprise IT systems for nearly two decades, are NoSQL databases finally making significant inroads against the conventional proprietary world of SQL parallel databases? If you look at the marketshare numbers, this is true. New-gen providers such as MongoDB, MariaDB, MapR Technologies, DynamoDB and MarkLogic are leaders in the big […]

During the past decade, the assertion that the data warehouse is required to be the center of an enterprise data system started to break down in a variety of ways. Reasons were numerous; they included such unwanted results as increasing complexity, loss of speed and agility and increasing costs. As a result, instead of analytics […]

Dell EMC put some distance between itself and runner-up Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as the market leader in both server revenue and server units shipped globally in Q2 2018, according to IDC research released Sept. 5. For the overall industry, worldwide server vendor revenues increased 43.7 percent year over year to $22.5 billion during the quarter. Worldwide […]

Atlassian, the company that has revitalized the internal enterprise call center business with its Jira system, on Sept. 5 launched a new version of the already successful cloud software that aims to help software and IT teams take better control of their incident processes. The company describes Jira Ops as a hub for modern incident […]

The prospect of earning big bucks in connection with the upcoming fifth-generation wireless, or 5G–the latest iteration of cellular technology–is causing companies to partner up and get products ready for when this rolls out big time in 2019. Verizon, Apple and Google (for 5G video streaming), Cisco, Samsung and Orange (for a new LTE network […]

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 […]