Chris Preimesberger

How Enterprises Can Deploy Cloud Services More Securely Nothing in last year’s news exposed IT security weaknesses more clearly than the 2016 U.S. presidential election. When you add up Hillary Clinton’s emails, John Podesta’s public Gmail and Twitter accounts, and WikiLeaks publishing thousands of emails from sources yet to be named, it’s clear that if […]

IT’s converged systems market is doing anything but converging: It expanded at a modest pace around the globe overall in 2016, although it suffered a hiccup in Q4 2016. Research from IDC released March 24 indicates that the full year 2016 worldwide converged systems market revenues increased 5.8 percent to $11.3 billion, compared to calendar […]

When Dell decided to sell off its software division to two private equity firms last June while in the process of acquiring EMC’s universe of properties, it divested every previously independent company it had acquired (Quest, SonicWall, Statistica, Ocarina, Scalent) except one: integration and data management provider Boomi. We’re not here to question any of […]

RSA Security’s annual conference, staged last month at Moscone Center in San Francisco, is the largest of its kind in the world. The Innovation Sandbox it hosts each year is the closest thing to a “Shark Tank”-style reality TV show for cybersecurity startups, and it is always a popular subset of the main event. The […]

If CX (customer experience) isn’t the latest and most often-cited hot-button IT solution acronym in the business, then our name isn’t eWEEK. Customer-experience software, services and solutions are everywhere in the IT news here in the fading days of Q1 2017, starting with the world’s biggest players (IBM, Facebook, Google, Adobe) and trickling down to […]

Seven Steps to Effective Database Automation For companies developing applications, one step is often the most painful: managing database changes. In fact, anything to do with creating and managing databases can be painful. It involves a lot of manual labor to make sure database changes are in sync with application changes. Managing and deploying database […]

LAS VEGAS–This is a big IT convention week here in southern Nevada, as it is often in the springtime. Adobe Systems is having its big annual event, Adobe Summit, for 12,000 attendees at the Venetian and Sands Expo. IBM has two conferences going simultaneously: InterConnect at the Mandalay Bay for 20,000 guests and Amplify for […]

LAS VEGAS–Like so many other things in the IT world that are converging–meaning cramming more and more computing, networking and storage functionality into servers and mobile devices–Adobe as a software and services provider is finding itself on a similar track. The San Jose, Calif.-based creative-content and marketing product and service provider has combined a flotilla […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM is always looking at new markets to enter, but the most important one it sees right now is one you won’t find the analysts or investors discussing. Big Blue calls it the “making better business decisions” market. That may sound like an amorphous marketing term, but IBM considers it real enough to have […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM doesn’t appear to be letting that smarty pants Watson take a day off. Every time you look up, Big Blue has a new use case assignment for its prized cloud-based analytics franchise. This time IBM is deploying Watson as a new cognitive-computing assistant to help IT professionals manage and protect networks of smartphones, […]

LAS VEGAS–While moving apps and services to one cloud from a data center can be a major project for a lot of older enterprises, moving to more than one can be an almost overwhelming concept. At its Interconnect 2017 event here at Mandalay Bay, which continues through Wednesday, IBM is showing through real-world examples how […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM and Veritas Technologies on March 20 revealed a collaboration designed to bring new cloud-based object storage and data-management options to enterprises that may or may not already have installations of the two companies’ products in their hybrid cloud systems. Another result of the deal is that IBM will be making Veritas’ best-selling NetBackup […]