Chris Preimesberger

Oracle, in its latest step to move its franchise to cloud services, launched its Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service July 16 to general availability. It has been in the development stage for more than a year. The service allows organizations to build blockchain networks to enable more secure and efficient transactions and to track goods through […]

Quest Software has had its stake in the ground for more than two decades by serving as home base for a lot of veteran database developers around the world, providing tools and services that assist them with handling installation, app development and continuing maintenance on complicated Oracle DB and Microsoft SQL environments. During the last […]

eWEEK has started 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 […]

San Francisco-based startup Splice Machine, whose database management system is specifically optimized for hybrid clouds, on July 11 announced the availability of its automated application platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud service.  Splice Machine’s Online Predictive Processing Platform (OLPP) is designed to power new-generation predictive analytics applications that run both on premises and in the […]

Here’s a business situation to think about: What if on a hot summer day your kid had a lemonade stand on a busy corner and was selling plenty of cool drinks. Then a friend asks if he can set up his own drink stand on the same corner, in direct competition to your kid’s business. […]

DevOps tool maker Shippable revealed July 12 that it is in business with chipmaker Arm and bare-metal cloud services provider Packet to deliver the first native-hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) platform for developers working on software applications for Arm v8-A architecture. Through this collaboration, Shippable said it will provide access to a hosted CI/CD […]

During the last couple of years, cyber-security has been largely about the huge influx of malware flowing through the veins of the internet. The problem hasn’t gone away by any means, but now in 2018 there’s an even larger threat: crypto-mining-specific malware. Check Point Software, a global provider of cyber-security solutions, on July 12 released its “Cyber […]

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 […]

Most IT people don’t know anything about this, but there is yet another way to approach enterprise security outside of network-centric, workload-centric, file-centric, VM-centric and all the other methods. Companies can protect their data from going out from their storage and servers in an unauthorized fashion by—get this—monitoring hops. Yes, hops. No, we’re not talking […]

It’s only a matter of time before outer space becomes a routine location in the big picture of IT systems—especially when it concerns such functions as data storage and cryptocurrency processing. Satellites have long been used for transporting television, military, government and scientific data from location to location, but data files and applications haven’t regularly […]