Chris Preimesberger

For the second day in succession at VMworld 2017, host VMware merely enacted new-product news it had announced months ago. On Aug. 28 it was the official release of its development cloud on Amazon Web Services; on Aug. 29 it was all about Workspace ONE and the hyperbole-riddled term “user experience.” Back on March 14, […]

Six Ways IT Teams Can Be the Guardian of Their Companies’ SaaS Data According to Gartner Research, more than 30 percent of the 100 largest cloud service providers’ new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only within the next two years. As software-as-a-service (SaaS) options and adoption grow, there is a new debate stirring […]

Without the cloud and all its glorious potential, VMworld  2017 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas certainly would be a dull, quiet place for 23,000 people to meet. In fact, the entire world would be a dull, quiet place. Without the cloud, nothing of what we now take for granted would be happening: mobile devices […]

Good news for IT professionals and for those who watch employment/unemployment statistics: Oracle is intent on hiring more than 5,000 new engineers, consultants, sales and support people for its growing cloud services and infrastructure business. This injection of talent will help Oracle sustain momentum in what it describes as “the world’s fastest growing multi-billion dollar […]

One of the main news items announced Aug. 28 from the main stage at VMworld 2017–about VMware Cloud services now becoming available to run on AWS–isn’t really news at all; it originally was revealed here in eWEEK nearly a year ago. Thus, one has to wonder: Did VMware and Amazon think we’d all forgotten about […]

IBM is getting out ahead of next week’s annual VMworld Conference (Aug. 27-31 in Las Vegas) by announcing a new data protection software package for virtual machines that it claims can be set up in as little as one hour.  IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is offered for two different deployment options, either as a stand-alone […]

At Verizon’s Next-Gen Retail Store, It’s All About Customer Experience SAN FRANCISCO—Normally, when you visit a telecom products and services sales location, what awaits you is a pretty standard layout inside: leashed phones and tablets on display so potential buyers can hold them and press a few buttons, and a seating area where you wait […]

HP Inc., the one that produces workstations, printers, ink and other IT hardware, reported its Q3 2017 earnings Aug. 23, and they beat Wall Street expectations. So there was cause for celebration of sorts in Palo Alto. Revenue increased by double digits for the first time in a long while; however, profits slipped noticeably from […]

For companies that do business in Europe, the acronym GDRP can evoke both consternation and dollar signs. This is because by this time next year, those enterprises will need to have taken complete stock of all their data assets in order to comply with the new European Union (EU) requirements for the personal protection of […]

Stumbling Blocks That Keep Firms From Fully Utilizing Financial Data Financial data fuels (or should fuel) critical business initiatives, but at many companies, financial management systems make it difficult to surface, analyze, secure or even validate data. What’s getting in the way? In this eWEEK slide show, Betsy Bland, vice president of financial management products at […]