Chris Preimesberger

Digital Realty, which specializes in owning and operating international colocation and interconnection data centers, revealed July 23 that it will expand its dedicated private access to the IBM Cloud to 15 more major metropolitan areas globally, giving users more than 70 locations from which to choose.  These on-ramps help ensure efficient and secure access to […]

Because IT managers responsible for protecting the enterprise crown jewels—namely, data—face increasing threats against everything from fraudsters and data thieves all the way to up to nation-states, the need to react quickly to an imminent threat has never been more important. Speed is essential to just about everything: sports, online trading, moving data workloads from […]

Enterprise cloud-native applications are built to take advantage of cloud-computing models that increase speed, flexibility and quality, while reducing deployment risks. Despite its name, a cloud-native approach is not focused on where applications are deployed, but instead on how they are built, deployed and managed. Evolving toward cloud-native application development and delivery is multidimensional, affecting […]

HP Inc., which a year ago came out with new workstations optimized for heavy-duty virtual and augmented reality video applications, pulled no punches July 18 in introducing what it unabashedly called “the world’s most powerful entry workstations”  for product designers, architects, creative professionals, OEMs, educators and financial/office workers. Whether they are indeed the world’s most powerful […]

Compuware is intent upon bringing the new-gen discipline of continuous iteration of software development to the old-school mainframe world, and it isn’t afraid to stand alone in that market. After all, about half of all companies with data centers have at least one mainframe, according to data center industry group AFCOM. Most of those are […]

Marketing and advertising used to be entirely about creativeness, focus groups, gut feelings, popular publications and salesmanship. Think of the popular television show on AMC, “Mad Men” (2008-15), and you’ll get the scene we’re setting. To a great extent, marketing and advertising are still about all those elements. Only now, here in the first quarter […]

MarkLogic, the NoSQL database that helped solve the online registration snafu of Healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act website, in 2014, on July 17 launched the MarkLogic Query Service, a new way to give customers automatic elasticity in the cloud for their enterprise workloads. The new software-as-a-service application automatically adds and removes query processing capacity to a […]

Micron and Intel, who have had their differences in their joint 3D XPoint (pronounced crosspoint) development deal, have agreed to end their partnership to design and build the solid-state processors. The project is expected to be finished in the first half of 2019. Development of the chips beyond the second generation of 3D XPoint chips […]

Samsung revealed July 16 that it has successfully developed the industry’s first 10 nanometer-class, 8-gigabit LPDDR5 (Low-Power, Double-Data-Rate) DRAM (dynamic random access memory). This represents a substantial advancement for the 5G connectivity segment and marks a jump ahead of ARM’s and Qualcomm’s 5G chips. Since bringing the first 8Gb LPDDR4 to mass production in 2014, […]

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 […]