Chris Preimesberger

Even though the coronavirus pandemic has been impacting the globe demonstrably for nearing a half-year, enterprises are still adjusting their business approaches here in midsummer to continue to work efficiently. COVID-19 has forced both consumers and companies into a new digital reality. Prior to the pandemic, 70% of companies had a digital transformation initiative in […]

Redwood City, Calif.-based TigerGraph, which bills itself as “the only scalable graph database for the enterprise,” on July 16 launched a version of its cloud product, TigerGraph Cloud, for deployment on Microsoft Azure. This is in addition to TigerGraph’s current support for working in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. TigerGraph claims that this is […]

Each December here on eWEEK, we ask IT professionals to look ahead and offer some educated “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses” as to what we can expect from the coming year. There are always a lot of interesting answers, whether or not they turn out to be on- or off-target. So here it is […]

Nokia, born in 1865 in Finland, is the answer to the IT history trivia question: What company made the world’s No. 1-selling smartphone (well, they were sort of smart back in the 1990s and early 2000s) before BlackBerry, iPhone and the Androids? When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007–which subsequently ran rings around every […]

For decades, IT networks were considered little more than necessary plumbing that linked servers, storage and end-user clients, with the sole purpose of simply running data between the various points. However, the last several years have brought significant changes in IT, with the world rapidly becoming more data-centric, more software-defined, more distributed and more mobile. […]

On Tuesday, July 14, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 88th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be  “Next-Gen Networking Trends,” and it will be moderated by eWEEK Editor Chris Preimesberger. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat, July 14: “Next-Gen Networking Trends”   Date/time: Tuesday, July 14, 11 a.m. PDT / 2 […]

Oracle CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison revealed July 8 that his company is now offering its customers a new option that amounts to a virtual private cloud environment, further blurring the differences between next-gen cloud services and conventional on-premises IT systems. Essentially, this means that Oracle will manage all of its cloud services—including its foundational […]

Danish audio peripherals maker EPOS has announced co-development with Germany’s Sennheiser of a new line of high-end, wired headsets co-branded by EPOS|Sennheiser and called IMPACT. Sennheiser has earned a reputation over four decades as being a high-quality but slightly more expensive maker of headphones and microphones. The co-development of this new line of audio peripherals […]

Storage Class Memory (SCM) is quickly moving out of the standard technology hype cycle and into real world implementation. The benefit? It’s simple: breakthrough latency performance. When combined with the latest storage protocols, NVMe and NVMe-oF, total system response time can be cut in half.   Multiple vendors now offer SCM in their server and storage […]

You may or may not know that despite the fact some 30 million people are out of work right now in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are an estimated 1 million IT-related jobs going unfilled, and companies are typically having a hard time finding the right candidates for many of them.  The tech […]