Chris Preimesberger

Silicon Valley staged some progressive IT events this past week, with Facebook F8 in San Jose, Amazon’s AWS Summit in San Francisco, an IoT preview put on by HPE and GE in Santa Clara, Calif., and probably others we couldn’t get to. eWEEK has and/or will touch on highlights of these events. We’ve already covered […]

Amazon Web Services wants to make infrastructure invisible to software developers so they don’t have to worry about it when writing application code. Nothing against software architects and infrastructure experts, but when app devs are unburdened by details of where and how their apps are going to run and let AWS handle that part, apps […]

Earth Day 2017: How IT Is Playing a Crucial Role in Saving Energy On this year’s Earth Day, which is April 22, more than 1 billion people from around the world will come together to make their voices heard about the environment. Many of them will focus on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According […]

Amazon Web Services outdid itself in releasing news at its SF Summit April 19, launching a bevy of new tools and services for both its enterprise customers and for cloud-service developers.  Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com made a number of announcements from the stage during his opening keynote. Foremost among them were the […]

The day is now here when people can gather inside a conference room for a meeting and not have to worry when someone asks a question to which no one knows the answer. All someone will have to do is ask the room itself, because it will dig up the answer for everybody within a […]

IBM had some good and some not-so-good news regarding its earnings on April 18. Like several other longtime IT product and service providers, the venerable company is experiencing some sharp financial pains in making the switchover to software and cloud services from its traditional IT hardware businesses. The earnings report beat Wall Street projections for […]

Facebook, itself built on layers of open source code and hardware blueprints, has made it a point to serve as a wellspring of sorts for the open source community–even before it came into money from its IPO in 2012. The social network demonstrated this commitment once again April 18 on Day 1 of its F8 […]

Lots of people don’t know this, but ride-hailing app maker Uber has a separate business-related service called, plainly enough, Uber for Business. It may have been a bit under the radar to the mainstream public for the last couple of years, but about 65,000 organizations globally–including Goldman Sachs, Zillow Group, Dell EMC, Wunderman and AdRoll—currently […]

Reltio, an enterprise applications and data management provider, revealed April 18 that it has banked $40 million in new venture capital. The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup, founded in 2011 by the team that created Informatica’s master data management franchise more than a decade ago, had its funding round led by global venture capital firm New […]

How Internet of Things Will Shape Intelligent Enterprises People are more than ready for the internet of things because they’ve been reading about its possibilities for a few years. They are beginning to buy smart connected products, such as thermostats, washing machines and refrigerators. Similarly, the IoT is quickly impacting and reshaping the enterprise landscape, […]

Generally, when people think about the most influential social networks, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Flixter might come to mind. Others, such as Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and maybe Google+ are often considered second tier. However, Instagram, which Facebook bought in 2012 for $1 billion, is starting to make new headway into this hierarchy of networks by […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, in a deal that came to fruition months ahead of its original schedule, on April 17 completed its $1 billion acquisition of new-gen flash storage maker Nimble. The deal ended up as being worth $12.50 per stock share. HPE, which had said it would finish the acquisition in Q3 2017, ostensibly has the […]