Chris Preimesberger

It is impossible to have too many new ideas about improving data security. Individual hackers and state-sponsored bad-actor groups alike certainly continue to come up with their own “innovations” as they constantly crack into systems worldwide, day in and day out. Here’s an interesting new defensive idea: malware isolation. Menlo Security, pioneer of this new-generation […]

Photo-messaging app maker Snap Inc., which as Snapchat unabashedly turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook back in November 2013 and left jaws dropped all over the business world, is planning to go public, according to a report Oct. 6 in The Wall Street Journal. Snap apparently is examining an initial public offering […]

Innovation in storage archiving is something of a rarity. After all, archiving as cold storage means digital tape or hard drives locked away in some vault, and that’s about it. About the only people who ever need to use it are lawyers doing legal discovery projects. However, Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division bucked that trend […]

VMware and its enterprise mobility arm, AirWatch, on Oct. 5 launched both a new category of software and a new endpoint management package to go into it. At the Connect 2016 conference in Atlanta, the company unveiled AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management and a new version of VMware Workspace ONE. The package expands VMware AirWatch into […]

No one ever said that understanding and deploying the DevOps method of developing software would be a simple or uncomplicated thing to do. But Automic Software, which has been providing automation of business processes since 10 years before the internet hit the mainstream, is striving to do just that. Automic on Oct. 4 launched Automic […]

How VDI Can Work in Tandem With BYOD in the Workplace VDI has been challenged lately by the BYOD trend. However, it’s possible for VDI and BYOD to work together to improve the desktop experience of employees. Consumerization of IT Firmly Planted in the Enterprise We’re way past the point of employees merely introducing consumer […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) may not be as high on the visibility scale as software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS), and it’s in near-conflict with another IaaS (infrastructure as a service). But its best days appear to be ahead, because with all the new data flowing into […]

New-gen data management provider Egnyte and old-timer Microsoft are becoming close marketplace buddies. Thirteen months ago, Egnyte, which specializes in automated enterprise file services inside storage, announced an integration with Microsoft Office 365, combining to enable business users to seamlessly access, manage and share all of their Windows files across a network. Over time, other […]

Whether one pronounces it “cute” or “kew-tee”—either is OK—the Qt Company has as its singular and lofty mission to provide a cross-platform framework that enables developers to write the application code once, then deploy it anywhere and on any device without worrying about the back end. The Helsinki-based open-source development tool provider on Sept. 30 […]

Attivo Networks specializes in messing up things inside IT systems—for would-be cyber-intruders, that is. The Fremont, Calif.-based deception-security provider, which creates bogus but believable copies of IT systems in order to catch and contain unwanted cyber-criminals, on Sept. 30 launched Attivo Camouflage, a next-generation approach that uses self-learning to automatically alter itself, constantly generating fresh […]

10 DevOps Benefits Enterprises Can Obtain From Automation DevOps is taking hold across a broad range of organizations, accelerating business more quickly in today’s global environment. Here are 10 DevOps benefits organizations can obtain from the use of automation. Consistency and Repeatability Every server in your infrastructure is configured properly each and every time. You […]

eWEEK is willing to bet that you have never been offered free hyperconverged, software-defined storage software before Sept. 30, 2016. Maxta, which specializes in software-based hyperconvergence for enterprise storage systems, on Sept. 30 announced the general availability of a free download of its MxSP software for qualified organizations in the United States, Canada and select […]