Chris Preimesberger

Amazon Web Services, in addition to all the frontline cloud services it offers, also has been moving steadily into the huge infrastructure greenfield of the internet of things. The real question is: Who isn’t at this point, and if you’re an enterprise watching all this from the sidelines … well, what are you thinking? The […]

VMware and Amazon Web Services are like two home-run sluggers playing on the same team in the All-Star Game. They each dominate a major market—VMware in IT system infrastructure and AWS in enterprise cloud services—and so both of them together comprise a huge one-two punch when competing with other cloud IT singles hitters. The two […]

Here is the latest article in a new 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 […]

We all love predictions, and we admire prognosticators who risk going out on a limb in the media to offer their firsthand, deep-in-the-industry perspectives. There can be great rewards or embarrassing falls from grace in connection with predicting the future. Then again, with news cycles now in minutes rather than hours or days, predictions—like any […]

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 […]

Data storage and humans have something important in common: The places where they live are almost always the highest-cost line item in their budgets. Buying a home or condominium can take up from 25 percent to 50 percent (or more) of a household income; data storage long has averaged about 40 percent of an enterprise’s […]

Competition is always one thing in business—it’s everywhere you look.  And it wasn’t all that long ago that IT companies all had their privately held, proprietary secret-sauce code and development processes that helped them put their stakes in the ground. This is still true to an extent; regulated industries (financial services, oil and gas exploration, […]

Hyperconverged storage software maker Maxta on Aug. 22 introduced a new appliance with a specific function: to run its software on Red Hat Linux’ virtualization framework. This is a pre-configured system—called a Hyperconverged (Un)Appliance—consisting of Red Hat and Maxta software bundled together on Intel Data Center Blocks hardware. The joint package provides appliance-based hyperconvergence benefits […]

Multi-sided, user-facing IT platforms, such as those deployed inside Google, eBay, Uber and Xbox, are becoming more strategic tools for enterprises all the time. While they have been used publicly for more than two decades, a lot of people still don’t recognize what a multi-sided platform is. It is defined as any type of platform […]

All-flash storage maker Pure Storage has looked no further than than its next-door Silicon Valley neighbor to acquire some important new storage IP. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company on Aug. 21 announced the acquisition of privately-held, Sunnyvale, Calif. based software company StorReduce, a cloud-first software-defined storage solution for managing large scale unstructured data. Financial terms […]