Chris Preimesberger

Tricentis, which provides continuous testing and software test automation and is designed specifically for the DevOps way of doing app development, said Aug. 2 that it has acquired Flood IO, a flexible and scalable on-demand load testing solution. Flood’s technology frees load testing from resource-intensive performance labs and “shifts it left” with a simplified and […]

When it comes to new-gen facial recognition software for identification and security purposes, the eyes definitely have it. Conduent, Xerox’s former services business that split off and went public in January and brings in upwards of $6 billion in yearly revenue, has been awarded a U.S. patent for facial recognition intellectual property that gets most […]

The former Hewlett-Packard Co., known for generations as simply HP, has been reconfiguring itself so often during the past few years that it sometimes takes a few minutes to remember what acronyms and corporate functions have gone where. Fifteen years ago, HP bought Compaq computer’s PC business, floated the idea of spinning it off in […]

SAN FRANCISCO–For decades, conventional enterprise IT has been based upon loading data into storage arrays to make it available for applications inside servers, so that workloads could be processed and business as usual conducted. But with the current data deluge clogging up networks and filling up storage capacities, the movement of digital bits is getting […]

Eight Ways Companies Are Using No-Code Apps to Improve Efficiency No-code software development, also known as citizen development, has returned as a real trend. According to Forrester, the low-code market will reach $15 billion by 2020. Modern workers—whether at small businesses or large enterprises—are going a step further, turning to completely no-code platforms to quickly […]

Data automation management specialist Primary Data, whose claim to fame is as creator of the world’s first enterprise metadata storage engine, revealed Aug. 2 that it has raised a total of $40 million in its second round of funding. The funding includes a $20 million investment with participation from Pelion Venture Partners, Accel, Battery Ventures […]

DriveSavers, which specializes in data recovery, eDiscovery and digital forensics, said Aug. 2 that it is now in compliance with new data security requirements added to Standards Organization Controls (SOC) 1 and 2. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants recently enacted updated attestation standards for SOC 1 and 2. As of May 1, 2017, […]

Mozy, the first cloud-based file backup service acquired by EMC in 2007 and now property of Dell EMC, has been a survivor in the storage wars during the last 10 years. It started out as Berkeley Data Systems with about 50 people in American Fork, Utah, to provide a consumer-based service that morphed and scaled […]

Global IT professional services firm Genpact revealed Aug. 2 that it has acquired OnSource, provider of a specialized cloud-based service for property and casualty insurance carriers and their customers. Terms of the deal are not disclosed. In the insurance business, this particular cloud software is known as Inspection-as-a-Service (IaaS)—not to be confused with Information-as-a-Service or […]

We’re introducing today a new occasional feature in eWEEK called IT Science, in which we look at what really 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 […]