Chris Preimesberger

Turing Award winner Charles P. Thacker, who was the lead designer of the world’s first modern personal computer and a co-inventor of Ethernet with Bob Metcalfe, David Boggs and Butler Lampson, died June 12 of cancer at his home in Palo Alto. He was 74. Mr. Thacker received the Turing Award—widely considered the Nobel Prize […]

Rubrik, which automates the intricacies of IT data storage management so admins ostensibly can take longer coffee and lunch breaks, launched a major platform update June 13 that it says provides on-demand application availability anytime, anywhere–regardless of infrastructure. Basically, Rubrik’s secret sauce does away with all the point products (backup server, backup proxies, replication, accelerators, […]

How to Know When It’s Time to Re-Architect a Data Management Platform Making the strategic decision to re-architect your data management platform isn’t a task to take lightly. Re-architecting takes significant time, money and resources. The best architectural decisions are all about speed and delivering value through extensibility, insights and enablement. Upgrades to an onsite or mobile […]

Just about every IT company in Silicon Valley is getting into the self-driving vehicle business, and why not? This sector, along with the internet of things, virtual reality and big data analytics, will be IT greenfields for years to come. Along these lines, IBM revealed June 14 that it has gone into the self-driving car […]

Data storage disruptor Box is quietly on a quest to replace conventional physical storage systems. Yes, we’re talking about the same storage hardware and software systems on which enterprises have been spending millions of dollars for decades. While it’s not exactly there yet, the Redwood City, Calif.-based cloud storage and collaboration tool provider took a […]

Amazon Web Services revealed June 13 that it is planning to offer government agencies, regulated industries and software-as-a-service providers a second highly secure location to park and process data in its global cloud. AWS GovCloud (U.S.) gives AWS customers a place to host sensitive data and regulated workloads within the AWS Cloud. The first AWS GovCloud […]

What Governments, Enterprises Can Learn From 2016 Election Hacks The 2016 U.S. presidential election was historic for numerous reasons, not the least of which was the prominent role cyber-security played throughout the campaign and in the first weeks of the new administration. Nation-states and politically motivated actors realize the effectiveness of stealing and releasing politically […]

Facebook has been toeing the diving board of the internet television-streaming business for several months without jumping into the pool. It certainly has the resources to move into that market, and in a big way if it chooses to do so. Now appears to be a pretty opportune time, right at the beginning of a […]

On Wednesday, June 14, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 56th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “New Roles for Artificial Intelligence in Enterprise and Consumer IT.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “New Roles for Artificial Intelligence […]

Cloud-based all-purpose business platform maker Zuora has launched a new hub that centralizes order-to-cash operations and is designed to make its large set of software-as-a-service offerings easier to manage. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which invented the term “subscription economy” in seeing the trend toward cloud-based business a few years ago, made the announcement June […]