Chris Preimesberger

It’s poetic serendipity that a man named Dr. Goh (pronounced “go”) is a principal in a project that will send an experimental new-gen computer go-go-going far, far away aboard a SpaceX rocket early next week. On Aug. 14, the SpaceX-12, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sending a Dragon spacecraft […]

Oracle appears to be on a serious DevOps/agile development track, churning out new cloud-based apps on an increasingly fast scale as the company continues to make the transition to become more of a cloud-based vendor. The database, data center hardware and software-as-a-service giant released a flotilla of new capabilities and enhancements to cloud apps in […]

Facebook not only has its users’ complete attention for news, social networking, games, instant messaging, email, video streaming and a dozen other use cases, it now wants their time in front of ads as a television network. The world’s largest social network, which has been envious of YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo and other video providers for […]

Dropbox said Aug. 10 that its mobile application now can function as a backup way for users to confirm their identity with two-factor authentication, especially if the user is out of cell range. This takes place when user logs in to his or her Dropbox account. When signing in, a user can send a notification to […]

How Hackers Make Big Bucks Stealing, Selling Personal Information Personal information was stolen 30 times a minute in 2016. While people are becoming more aware that failing to properly password-protect access to sensitive digital materials can have severe consequences, many are still in the dark. The damage of having one’s identity stolen or having financial […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There’s a lot of hot new storage tech being introduced and demoed at this year’s Flash Memory Summit. And some of it is literally too hot to handle. Innodisk’s corporate booth, located adjacent to Seagate’s, caught fire early in the morning Aug. 8, spreading smoke all through the Santa Clara Convention […]

Off the top, it sounds simple enough: You have one big, fast server processing an artificial-intelligence-related, big data workload. Then the requirements change; much more data needs to be added to the process to get the project done in a reasonable span of time. Logic says that all you need to do is add more […]

How to Identify and Prevent Overspending on Cloud Software Organizations will spend a whopping $119 billion on cloud software in 2017, according to recent Forrester research. This represents a 23 percent increase over 2016, and there are no signs of this spending slowing down. As we move into an era where cloud spend will begin […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 58th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Trends in DevOps and Agile Development.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Trends in DevOps and Agile Development” Date/time: Aug. 9, […]

In the world of DevOps and agile development, West has met East: South San Francisco DevOps solutions provider CollabNet and Atlanta-based agile software integrator VersionOne are now one business entity. Terms of the merger transaction announced Aug. 7 were not released. The newly combined company immediately claimed that it will offer the industry’s “most complete” […]