Chris Preimesberger

Historically, the telecommunications industry has centered around three main hardware suppliers: Nokia (Finland), Ericsson (Sweden) and Huawei (China), with little investment in actual telco infrastructure during the past 10 years. According to a recent blog post by Qualcomm Ventures: “Venture capital (VC) firms and startups typically avoid wireless network infrastructure investments.” But thanks to 5G, […]

During the past few decades, the health care industry has integrated more digital systems, amassed more digital data and automated clinical workflows. This has caused the industry to become a more attractive target to cyber-adversaries while clinicians have become more dependent on these digital systems.  On the other hand, cyber-threats are evolving rapidly as attacks […]

Software companies modernize their wares on a regular—sometimes weekly or even daily—basis. That’s the whole idea behind agile development. So it’s a little unexpected to hear a company as sophisticated and forward-thinking as VMware announce in a special event that it’s “modernizing” much of its enterprise lineup because it’s generally being updated all the time. […]

Life is made up of moments; some good, some not so good, and everything in between. It’s what we do with all these moments—mainly what we learn from them—that ultimately comprises the decisions and non-decisions of a lifetime. The cool thing now is that we’re able to record many more of these moments with our […]

———————————————————-Editor’s note: As of March 19, 2020, Zoho had delivered more than 5,000 free copies of Remotely to small businesses globally, and the total keeps climbing.———————————————————- Zoho Software is making Remotely, the company’s new virtual collaboration and productivity platform, available to the public free of charge for those who need remote working tools in light […]

On Wednesday, March 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 84th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “What’s Up with New-Gen Health Care IT.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s Editor in Chief. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat March 11: “What’s Up with New-Gen Health Care IT” Date/time: […]

Today: Intellectus Statistics (statistics software for education market) Company description: Intellectus Statistics is cloud-based statistical analysis software that allows users to conduct analyses without requiring statistical expertise. The output is in the form of plain English sentences, formatted in the APA style, to make understanding statistical results easier than ever. [Editor’s note: APA Style is a writing […]

BMC Software, a veteran independent enterprise IT products and services maker that long ago carved out its own loyal clientele in the face of larger competitors, has had a busy news week. The Houston-based company revealed March 2 that will acquire Compuware, once the largest tech company in Michigan and since 1973 a provider of […]

Electronic health records (EHRs, also known as electronic medical records, or EMRs) have earned a lot of media attention in the years since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009. Unfortunately, a lot of that reporting was negative in nature. Even though EHRs were heralded for their […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Here is a listing of some key news announcements from Day 1 of the RSA 2020 Security Conference here at Moscone Center. Attendance has been down somewhat this week, due mostly to curtailment of international travel due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, which originated in China several weeks ago. An estimated 18,000 people […]

At the end of each year, eWEEK likes to post observations from IT thought leaders about what they think we should all expect in the coming year—new products, innovative services, trends to look for and so on. As usual, we’ve published a few of these thus far, but we had some publishing-process snafus in December […]

As new technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) continue to change how networks are architected, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for IT to get a complete picture of the entire network or to measure performance KPIs accurately. To compensate, organizations often use individual tools to solve individual problems, which can result […]