Chris Preimesberger

Apparently the global coronavirus pandemic isn’t affecting the IT software/hardware/services business the way it’s devastated others. More than 27,900 new IT jobs were created in the first quarter of 2020 in the United States, even with the COVID-19 work shutdown. About 6,700 of those were created in March alone. After reviewing the data and conducting a […]

As we’re painfully finding out, the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has decimated the events and conferences of businesses, among many others. The IT event world is one of the hardest hit, since there are about 250 such conferences per year in the U.S. alone. Companies such as O’Reilly Media, Gartner, Informa and others have had to […]

On Wednesday, April 8, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 85th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Trends in Collaboration Tools.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor in chief. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat April 8: “Trends in Collaboration Tools” Date/time: Wednesday, April 8, 11 a.m. PDT/2 […]

HYCU, which provides industry-respected data backup, recovery and monitoring for hyperconverged IT infrastructures, is taking its business one big, intentional step at a time. The Boston-based company, branded Comtrade Software until it renamed itself after its No. 1 product two years ago, on March 31—World Data Backup Day—announced a major addition to its new-gen Protégé […]

Even if you’re not a regular Bible reader, there’s a good piece of advice relevant to data backup contained in Matthew 25:13: “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” Well, OK, the Apostle Matthew wasn’t exactly thinking about data protection way back then; he was referring to the end […]

Why Both HPs Had a Pivotal Year Hewlett-Packard Co., founded way back in 1939, has been one of the few true survivors in the volatile information technology products and services business. In 2015, the company split into two entities: HP Enterprise, which develops, makes and services all the servers, storage, networking and other enterprise IT […]

Today: Aerospike (next-generation NoSQL database) Company description: Founded in 2010, Aerospike is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with John Dillon the CEO. Aerospike has developed a next-generation NoSQL database that is trusted by enterprises around the world to help them build and deploy hyperscale data solutions with confidence. Unlike legacy NoSQL databases, […]

Machine learning is still in its infancy, and this is especially true at the tooling level, where workflows are simplistic, hacked together or prohibitively complicated to orchestrate. Also, there are few tools that equally satisfy the machine learning engineer, the infrastructure engineer and the engineering manager.  What are the consequences of stitching together various open-source […]

Honeywell. There’s a venerable company name that you might not have heard too often lately in terms of new-gen IT. For those who might not know, Honeywell isn’t in the beekeeping or honey supply business. It’s the most well-established equipment-control maker in the world, and it has a history going way back-back-back-back to its founding […]

Business software maker Zoho is at it again, reaching out to help customers old and new with tools they can use to get work done during the coronavirus pandemic. Following the March 6 announcement that the company will offer free use of its Remotely productivity platform, the Austin, Texas-based company revealed March 19 that it […]

Here is the latest article in an 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 […]

Knowingly or unknowingly, every company here in the 21st century is a data-driven company—whether this means a corporation with data centers full of documents, logs and images, or a small business using a simple spreadsheet of customers, suppliers and partners inside a laptop. For enterprises that range across industries and geographies, the ability to use […]