Chris Preimesberger

Nvidia, whose business has morphed successfully from being a primary GPU (graphics processing unit) chip provider for video-game consoles into the general enterprise and consumer markets during the past several years, on Feb. 9 reported record revenue for its fiscal year and for Q4 2017. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company brought in $2.17 billion, up […]

Quest Software identity and access management arm One Identity has launched a new version of its platform that connects natively with Active Directory and Azure environments in hybrid clouds. With thousands of users already deploying One Identity Active Roles to manage on-premises Active Directory security, Active Roles 7.1—released Feb. 6—brings to the table a single […]

10 Ways Enterprises Can Limit Third-Party Cyber-Risk To compete in a global marketplace, enterprises increasingly are moving their business processes and other services to the cloud and outside suppliers. This trend has created many more attack surfaces for cyber-criminals. According to industry analysts, nearly two-thirds of major breaches involve a third party. Complex supply chains […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Microsoft said March 8 that for the first time, it has decided to start using chips based on ARM Holdings designs in the hundreds of thousands of servers that run its cloud services. The company made the announcement during the main keynote at the Open Compute Project Summit 2017 at the […]

Everybody’s scrambling to find new approaches to recurring security problems that continue to impact enterprises and individuals alike. Segmentation, the idea of separating sections of an IT system so that an intruder can’t roam from level to level, is currently a hot idea here. Illumio has its own stake in the ground on this, believing […]

Cisco Systems came out with its annual state of mobile networking report on Feb. 7, and there was no shortage of both expected and unexpected data points. The 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2016 to 2021) projects that there will be more people on Earth using mobile phones in […]

Years ago, whenever the television networks needed to find out where their successes and failures were, they sought out one main source to provide their analytics: the all-important Nielsen Media Ratings. From 1950 to the early ’90s, the Nielsen sampling comprised about 1,700 homes nationwide with direct-line audimeters and a rotating board of nearly 850 […]

For more than two decades, the IT storage business has been built upon the idea of tiered storage, with “hot” data, backup and archiving comprising the three main levels. But it may well be that “tiered,” as well as it may work in systems now, has become a “tired” idea. We’ll even go further than […]

On Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 52nd monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Amazon GO: Can AWS Lead the Way in IoT as It Did in Cloud?” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Amazon GO: Can […]

Here’s a major storage trend: New-generation IT is gravitating steadily to object storage systems, and for a lot of reasons. Big data workloads are getting bigger, simplicity in administration and security, an increasing number of content and function types, fewer requirements for structured data in databases and the growth of continuous-development-type IT shops are foremost […]

Snap Inc., the parent of the popular photo-messaging mobile application Snapchat, made it official on Feb. 2: The company has filed the requisite Securities and Exchange Commission S-1 affidavit and will go public next month as reported by eWEEK and other publications back in November. The initial public offering, to be listed as SNAP on […]

10 Recommendations for Enterprises Planning to Adopt AI Enterprises that want to use artificial intelligence to solve specific business problems need to carefully study the technology to ensure that the AI system they select is the right tool for the right problem. Understand Your Real Problem to Solve Remember, your goal is to solve real […]