Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO–WD, also known as Western Digital Technologies, is well-entrenched as one of the world’s largest and most successful storage hard-drive makers. It’s also known as the proud owner—for $19 billion, last October—of SanDisk, one of the world’s largest solid-state storage providers. WD, founded long before the digital age (in 1970 and went public in […]

Parallels built its business by bridging the Apple and Microsoft operating systems, enabling users to cross-pollinate applications. The company’s patented platform enabled valuable productivity gains inside many enterprises. Since those early days several years ago, Parallels has continued to develop products for new markets, including a remote application server for PCs and Macs, cross-platform cloud-building […]

Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Encryption Misconceptions about encryption persist, including that it will degrade your system’s performance. Here we debunk 10 myths about using encryption to secure critical data. Myth: Encryption Will Degrade My System’s Performance True, encryption requires computing cycles, but most hardware platforms now have dedicated resources to accelerate encryption and […]

There aren’t too many major-league IT companies that are owned in their entirety by one family, let alone one person, but TP-Link is one of them. The Shenzhen, China-based networking equipment maker, celebrating its 20th year in business, brought in $2 billion in sales in 2015 as a major world player in the home WiFi […]

Analytics services that used to be exclusively for high-performance computing are finding their way into new-gen use cases that include connected cars, connected homes, website monitoring and data center management—pretty much the gamut of enterprise and personal IT. As a result of listening to their customers, IT vendors of all kinds are now finding ways […]

IBM made two storage-related news announcements Aug. 23: First, it is expanding its already extensive all-flash product lineup; second, the company is offering a new migration service to induce current Dell/EMC customers to make the move to IBM. The product expansion is designed to provide small and midsize organizations as well as global enterprises with […]

Enterprise security specialist F5 and the Ponemon Institute teamed up for a comprehensive study on application-centric security and released the results exclusively to eWEEK on Aug. 22. The report, based on a survey of security professionals about their approach to protecting the applications that are critical to running their businesses, highlights why traditional security methods […]

Agora.io, which specializes in global, internet-based, real-time communications packages, said Aug. 19 that it has partnered with language-learning provider Lingoland for a new immersion program in language learning. Agora.io enables developers to add high-definition voice and video calls into mobile and web apps through a simple but powerful software development kit (SDK). Agora Voice, the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A trio of well-respected IT companies—Emerson Network Power, Lenovo and OSIsoft—are putting the pedal to the metal on a fresh new firmware standard that could hasten the development of internet-of-things-oriented data centers. The partner firms demonstrated the practical application of Redfish, a data model/schema structure/protocol stack that can manage anything inside a data center, […]

Cisco Systems sold products and services worth $12.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016 and $48 billion in fiscal 2016, but all that income wasn’t enough to stave off a major round of layoffs announced Aug. 17 by the venerable San Jose, Calif.-based company. The world’s largest IT networking equipment provider marked a downturn […]

Google Cloud Platform on Aug. 16 released to general availability the database storage solutions (Cloud SQL Second Generation, Cloud Datastore and Cloud Bigtable) it announced a few months ago. The company also released several updates to Google Compute Engine that will bring improvements for database customers. These include support for Microsoft SQL licensing, new data […]

Tableau Software, known appropriately on the New York Stock Exchange as “DATA,” on Aug. 16 launched the latest edition of its cloud-based business intelligence package, which the company said offers faster and more complete analytics than the previous version. Tableau 10 features a refreshed design and user interface, new analytical and mobile enhancements, new options […]