Chris Preimesberger

Desktop vs. Mobile: 8 Reasons Why the Desktop Is Winning Contrary to some beliefs, the desktop PC could be around for years to come. Here’s when the desktop PC is preferred over the smaller-screen smartphones and notebooks.   The Importance of Desktop Far Exceeds Mobile Even with the increase in smartphone and tablet applications (and […]

Public cloud services are earning a lot of attention from enterprises, but don’t forget that private and hybrid clouds inside firewalls in big data centers also are being built and/or refreshed quite often. Dell EMC, as one might imagine, is all over this. The IT megacompany on Feb. 16 said that its hybrid cloud platform, […]

Eight Ways to Boost Employee Productivity Workplace productivity continues to decline—for a number of reasons. Here are simple steps enterprises can take to create a more efficient workforce. Define Your Goals and Reassess Continuously Take a look at the current state of your workflow and determine which processes could be streamlined. To start, look at […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A growing number of people think Facebook, other social networks, connected device makers–and potentially the entire internet of things market itself–are (or soon will be) too invasive into personal data privacy for their own good. This topic was one of many on everybody’s minds at this week’s RSA Security 2017 conference at […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise had been quiet regarding its 3PAR storage for several months, but that changed this week when it introduced a new HPE 3PAR operating system that it contends “provides a futureproof foundation for hybrid IT.” Future-proofing anything in IT is a tall order because system components change over so frequently that it’s almost […]

IBM on Feb. 15 launched a new product that should fit in nicely with its Watson artificial intelligence service inside a mainframe-based private cloud environment: IBM Machine Learning. The company describes this as the “first cognitive platform for continuously creating, training and deploying a high volume of analytic models in the private cloud at the […]

Largely due to Yahoo’s well-known highly vulnerable security system, Verizon reportedly has been able to negotiate down the price for buying the beleaguered web services company from $4.8 billion to $4.55 billion. If you think that’s a lot of money to pay for a web services pioneer whose best days were more than a decade […]

Cohesity, which specializes in hyperconverged secondary storage and claims to be a pioneer in that sector, on Feb. 14 released a new version of its platform that’s aimed specifically at enterprise remote and branch offices. Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition and Cohesity C2100 Hyperconverged Node, when used with Cohesity DataProtect, offers an independent, integrated software-only backup […]

Nine Considerations for Financial Institutions in an Omnichannel World When it comes to choosing a bank, interacting with a financial institution or making complicated banking decisions, most consumers still rely on offline communications. For example, when evaluating a loan, respondents to a recent survey ranked in-person meetings and phone calls as their preferred modes of […]

What will workplaces look like in a few years?  If you say they will be very different from in the past, that’s a safe assumption. Workplaces are continually changing, mostly because the tools people use in business keep evolving. Even in this, the third stage of the IT-in-the-office revolution–from mainframe-centralized office computers to distributed desktop […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Even though the national unemployment rate has been below 5 percent for more than a year, there are still millions of people looking for new jobs across the United States, population 321 million. If only a fraction of them were trained and certified as security admins, architects or developers, that number would […]

Rubrik, a company eWEEK has called “the rather impertinent startup that wants to replace in one fell swoop all conventional data backup-and-recovery point products that have taken 30-plus years for other companies to develop,” has released a new version of its new-gen data-management system. Rubrik on Feb. 9 launched version 3.1 of its Cloud Data Management platform, which […]