Chris Preimesberger

IBM Selects New Class of 11 IBM Fellows, the Highest Honor It Bestows IBM on April 13 named 11 new IBM Fellows, the company’s highest technical honor. The new Fellows are being celebrated for leading innovative work in cognitive computing, cloud, security and design. The IBM Fellow honor is conferred to IBMers in recognition of […]

Infrastructure performance management software maker Virtual Instruments has added improvements to its Load DynamiX Enterprise storage performance validation package, which enables storage admins to validate and optimize their systems. Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.3, released April 12, enables users to more intelligently deploy storage infrastructure for their hybrid data centers, the company said. It optimizes the […]

LinkedIn, after some well-documented fits and starts in the social business networking world in its formative stages a decade ago, was acquired by Microsoft last June, has steadied itself and has resumed its position as arguably the most popular business-oriented social network in the business. Now it’s innovating upon its own previous innovation, although it’s […]

How to Get the Most Out of Your SD-WAN Deployment Everything in IT seems to trend toward “software-defined,” and this includes local networks. From all indications, software-defined wide-area networks, or SD-WANs, are gaining traction among enterprises. According to a recent study, 58.5 percent of enterprises across the globe plan to adopt SD-WAN within the next […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure and related software has long since graduated out of the hype cycle and is now reality inside new-gen IT systems. It’s almost as though regular converged hardware and software was a Toyota Corolla left in a cloud of dust by a hyperconverged Mazerati. At 64 percent year-over-year growth, according to researcher IDC, hyperconverged […]

If, as it’s been described, 80 percent of the wealth of the U.S. is held by less than 1 percent of the population, there are parallels to this inequity in the data center world. According to new research released April 11, more than two-thirds of the key cloud service markets are owned by only a […]

Only a year or so ago, online publishers of news, features and other valuable information were waiting in line for a chance to connect with Facebook’s huge worldwide network in order to get their work in front of a billion more eyes. Facebook’s Instant Articles initiative promised to cast a wide net that would attract […]

Next-Gen Data Center Trends That IT Teams Shouldn’t Ignore If you think of Marvell as only a processor maker or a system-on-a-chip company—which is where it made its early reputation—then you probably need to do a little research. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based IT hardware giant has been expanding into multiple markets during the last several […]

On Wednesday, April 12, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 54th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Why Behavioral Biometrics Is the Key to New-Gen Security” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Why Behavioral Biometrics Is Key to […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Boston Properties and Salesforce introduced their new baby, the 1,070-feet-high Salesforce Tower, to the city of San Francisco April 6 on a drizzly day in the Bay Area. When it is completed next year, Salesforce Tower will be the company’s new headquarters and feature 61 floors and 1.4 million square feet of office space […]

Unified communications software provider BroadSoft on April 6 released a new cloud-based tool called Hub that features built-in artificial intelligence to help company employees save time searching for information. Broadsoft, a $400 million company that makes all its applications for cloud deployment and competes in a global market with Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Mitel, Avaya, NEC […]

Salesforce Literally Reaches for the Sky With New Tower Headquarters SAN FRANCISCO—Owner Boston Properties and Salesforce introduced their new baby, the 1,070-feet-high Salesforce Tower, to the city of San Francisco April 6 on a drizzly day in the Bay Area. When it is completed next year, Salesforce Tower will be the tallest building west of […]