Chris Preimesberger

Uber gassed up 11 of its self-driving Volvos Dec. 14 to roam the streets of San Francisco, pick up brave passengers and gather information for future driverless vehicles. The fast-growing ride-hailing company, whose new headquarters originally was in San Francisco but is in the process of moving across the bay to Oakland, has the sensor-packed […]

Pyze, which makes a freemium intelligent marketing platform that enables mobile and web app publishers to organically grow users by automating and personalizing engagement and conversion, released the second version of its fast-growing product Dec. 13. Pyze Growth Intelligence now includes support for web, SaaS and native apps, in addition to existing support for mobile […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The big, glassy office building on the corner of First and Howard streets just became a much smarter place to hang out: Watson, IBM’s question-answering cognitive computer system, officially moved in last month and is now holding court in its new Bay Area headquarters. Members of the media attended the first demo session at […]

On Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2017.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Predictions, Sure Things and […]

Realm, whose mobile database helps power most of the world’s most-used smartphone applications, on Dec. 12 released a freemium version of its Realm Mobile Platform for the benefit of mobile app developers. Realm Mobile Platform Professional Edition includes an unusually number of high-end features in a freely available toolset for mobile development teams. These include […]

10 Items to Consider Before Deploying Containers in Your Organization As containers grow in popularity, here is a list of prerequisites for enterprises to consider before deciding to deploy the technology in their data centers. Implemented Standardized Container Technology Common benchmarks are essential to both container efficiency and security. Look for container communities and products […]

BMC, an IT industry survivor that sees itself as a bridge from the mainframe era of the 1980s to the on-demand/big data era of 2016, announced a long-planned change at the top Dec. 12. Peter Leav, a former CEO of Polycom, joins the company as president and chief executive officer and succeeds Bob Beauchamp, who […]

You can’t avoid all the chatter about identity access management here in late 2016, because there are so many inherent holes in older systems without efficient IAM that hackers are easily abusing, thus causing resultant daily mayhem. As 2017 approaches, cloud computing, mobility and the internet of things continue to erode traditional organizational boundaries. The […]

Cloud storage and collaboration-tool options are becoming more granular for use in vertical sectors. For example, storage of medical images involves certain regulatory mandates around privacy that the storage of personal photos does not entail. Likewise, cloud storage services with collaboration tools are fine-tuning themselves toward certain types of businesses. A recent example is San […]

Quest Software, the enterprise IT tool company Dell essentially rented for four years to be Dell Software, and the bigger company have officially parted ways. Dell bought EMC and has new software companies like VMware and Pivotal on its team, and Quest is now going forward on its own under new ownership. One Identity, a […]

Networking software and hardware provider Brocade has unveiled an expanded SLX lineup of switches, which the company claims to have improved network visibility to go with the addition of new automation functionality. Brocade contends that this is the industry’s first data center networking portfolio to deliver agility at all layers of the data center stack, […]

IT system tool maker BMC is asserting itself as an innovator by coming out with a do-it-yourself software development platform that deploys agile techniques. The Houston-based company on Dec. 6 launched a new set of tools it calls the BMC Innovation Suite for developers. This is a cloud-based development environment, available on Amazon Web Services, […]