Chris Preimesberger

Android devices might be the most ubiquitous smartphones in the world, but Apple’s iPhone is beginning to catch up in the marketing sales reports.According to the latest research released Sept. 6 by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, Apple’s iPhone 6s was the world’s top-selling smartphone model in the second quarter of 2016. The Apple iPhone 6 and […]

Whenever Microsoft comes out with a new product, it’s invariably late to the party. However, because of the company’s ubiquitous presence, it always elbows its way into a portion of the market anyway. Like a lot of large companies, Microsoft was late to the cloud services market several years ago, but it has apparently caught […]

LAS VEGAS—Every year VMworld proves itself as one of the most important IT conferences in the world. This is because VMware products are key components in 90-plus percent of the world’s systems and touch everything about which we write each day in eWEEK: data centers, cloud services, mobility, storage, security, apps, edge devices—we could go […]

Now that storage data movement performance has been improved greatly across the board in new-generation enterprise systems, midrange and smaller businesses are being enticed more often with high-end storage performance capabilities at lower pricing points. Netgear’s latest contribution to this genre was launched Sept. 1 at the IFA Conference in Berlin, when the company unveiled […]

PCI DSS Turns 10: A Look at Its Strengths and Weaknesses Ten years have passed since the implementation of PCI DSS, designed to bolster security of payment cards. How effective is it? Positive: Sets a High Bar For an industry to assess how well it’s doing, there needs to be an objective standard against which […]

Back at the beginning of the calendar year, I published an article here in eWEEK titled, “Why Cognitive Intelligence Will Play Pivotal Role in Tech 2016.” Putting artificial brains to work in business use cases is hard to do well, but it hasn’t deterred the bolder enterprises from investing, testing and deploying intelligent applications here […]

LAS VEGAS—When Dell bought Quest Software in July 2012 for $2.36 billion—its largest acquisition ever—and anointed it as the new crown jewel of the company, Michael Dell told eWEEK: “Dell is now an international-class software company.” Fast forward four years: On June 20 of this year, after basically renting Quest for 16 fiscal quarters, Dell […]

7 Ways Global Travelers Can Keep WiFi Costs Down, Data Secure Wireless connectivity is a must for international travelers. But it does come with hazards. Here are seven tips on how to connect, keep costs down and ensure your data is secure when traveling. Start With the Basics First of all, research your hotels ahead […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC’s store-bought cloud, Virtustream, revealed Aug. 29 that it plans to integrate the VMware NSX network virtualization platform into its enterprise cloud. This is a good thing for enterprises considering an alternative to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud because Virtustream, a member of the vCloud Air Network, didn’t have anything like VMware’s industry-standard, enterprise-ready […]

LAS VEGAS—VMware didn’t unveil any new products or services Aug. 29 on Day 1 of VMworld 2016, but it did announce a new formation of its existing cloud infrastructure: VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture. This is essentially a way for VMware customers to manage and secure their applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment. […]

Nutanix, rapidly becoming a leader in the hyperconverged data center infrastructure space, added some key new-gen intellectual property and engineering talent Aug. 28 by announcing the acquisition of PernixData and Calm.io. Financial terms of the separate transactions, which were made Aug. 3, were not released. PernixData makes a data storage accelerator and a scale-out analytics […]

Cloud-services provider Rackspace is the latest IT company to abandon the public spotlight for the relative quiet and serenity of private ownership. The San Antonio, Texas-based company was acquired Aug. 26 by Apollo Global Management for $4.3 billion net cash, or $32 per share. The deal is expected to close in Q4, the company said. […]