Chris Preimesberger

VMware is virtually bursting at the seams with product news right about now. The world’s largest virtualization software maker, which only two months ago announced a major new cross-cloud strategy and platform at its largest conference of the year (VMworld 2016, Las Vegas), made a barrage of product announcements Oct. 18 on the opening day […]

10 Tips for Identifying and Dealing With Phishing Email Most people don’t question the “from” field in the emails they receive. We explain why they should and offer other guidelines for dealing with phishing email. Don’t Trust the Display Name A favorite phishing tactic among cyber-criminals is to spoof the display name of an email. […]

Netflix, which has sunk a large investment into creating and producing its own original content, turned in a strong quarterly earnings report Oct. 17, calming the fears of some investors who worried about the subscription movie channel’s churn through its capital store. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming video provider mightily exceeded its projections for new […]

Backup and efficient recovery of data stores generally has been the bane of many a storage administrator’s existence because processes are too often overly complicated, cannot scale to large volumes properly and need a lot of time-consuming personal babysitting to make sure all the boxes are checked. When data inevitably gets sidetracked somewhere in IT […]

Facebook is now enabling users to show on their television monitors live and previously recorded personal videos posted on their news feeds, similar to the way Google and Apple allow streaming video clips using Google’s Chromecast and Cast devices and Apple TV and AirPlay devices. Facebook users now can cast videos to a TV from […]

Salesforce, which three weeks ago had been thought to be the leading potential buyer for financially challenged Twitter, apparently has decided not to try to acquire the San Francisco-based mass messenger for an estimated $15 billion. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told the Financial Times Oct. 14 that its most likely suitor has decided not to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—VMware and Amazon Web Services, major IT players that often aren’t mentioned in the same sentence because many of their products compete in the same markets, revealed a new partnership Oct. 13 that will result in all of VMware’s cloud infrastructure software being hosted on AWS. For the IT and software development sectors, the […]

How Enterprises Can Use Microservices to Their Advantage Microservices provide many benefits including speed and fewer outages. Here’s how organizations can use them to their advantage. What Are the Main Benefits of Microservices? Increasingly, a microservices architecture is becoming the enterprise application development style of choice. It stands in stark contrast to monolithic applications, where […]

Calabrio is one software company that knows the importance of an enterprise listening intently to its customers, recording all the information and sentiment they provide, and then reporting exactly what they say and want. The Minneapolis-based company, which provides behind-the-scenes software that connects the dots and optimizes records in sales and customer engagement platforms, on […]

Google and Facebook, head-butting competitors in the online advertising business, shook hands Oct. 12 to go into the fiberoptic cable business together. The two web services giants, whose campuses are located only a few miles from each other on the San Francisco Bay, are working together to lay a nearly 8,000-mile cable between Los Angeles […]

On Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 48th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Why DevOps and Agile Development Is IT’s Future.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Why DevOps and Agile Development Is IT’s […]

Box and Facebook have a few things in common. Both were founded around the same time (about 12 years ago), both were started up by young millennial IT wunderkinds and both began as consumer-oriented cloud services products that have moved (Box)—or are moving (Facebook)—into the enterprise realm. Facebook, of course, is still mostly a consumer […]