Chris Preimesberger

There are good reasons why Austin-based Pivot3, which specializes in hyperconverged IT infrastructure hardware and software, saw its revenue grow 84 percent year-over-year in 2016. Those reasons are probably these: 1) The market itself is exploding, and 2) Pivot3 must be doing something right. The latest news in this sector is about the April 25 […]

IBM Watson is branching out. Most well known for defeating multiple-time champion Ken Jennings in “Jeopardy” several years ago and for helping doctors determine the best meds for their patients, Watson is now going industrial; IBM is bringing its formidable artificial intelligence to the factory floor. At a moment when manufacturers are starting to experiment […]

Violin Memory had been waiting nervously for months, wondering what the future would hold. Finally, the answer came. Violin Memory filed an SEC affidavit April 21 that explained its emergence from bankruptcy announced last December, then revealed April 24 that it had completed a restructuring and sale process to Quantum Partners LP, a private investment […]

Driving by Oracle’s gleaming blue-green, Emerald City-like headquarters on the San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, Calif., one could say that it resembles a castle that Larry Ellison built. Which is pretty close to what it is. Now the company castle has a Moat to go with it. The world’s largest database maker reportedly will […]

Silicon Valley staged some progressive IT events this past week, with Facebook F8 in San Jose, Amazon’s AWS Summit in San Francisco, an IoT preview put on by HPE and GE in Santa Clara, Calif., and probably others we couldn’t get to. eWEEK has and/or will touch on highlights of these events. We’ve already covered […]

Amazon Web Services wants to make infrastructure invisible to software developers so they don’t have to worry about it when writing application code. Nothing against software architects and infrastructure experts, but when app devs are unburdened by details of where and how their apps are going to run and let AWS handle that part, apps […]

Earth Day 2017: How IT Is Playing a Crucial Role in Saving Energy On this year’s Earth Day, which is April 22, more than 1 billion people from around the world will come together to make their voices heard about the environment. Many of them will focus on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According […]

Amazon Web Services outdid itself in releasing news at its SF Summit April 19, launching a bevy of new tools and services for both its enterprise customers and for cloud-service developers.  Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com made a number of announcements from the stage during his opening keynote. Foremost among them were the […]

The day is now here when people can gather inside a conference room for a meeting and not have to worry when someone asks a question to which no one knows the answer. All someone will have to do is ask the room itself, because it will dig up the answer for everybody within a […]

IBM had some good and some not-so-good news regarding its earnings on April 18. Like several other longtime IT product and service providers, the venerable company is experiencing some sharp financial pains in making the switchover to software and cloud services from its traditional IT hardware businesses. The earnings report beat Wall Street projections for […]