Chris Preimesberger

Toshiba America Electronic Components, which has been getting more and more granular with its products by mapping them directly to new-gen use cases, on Aug. 8 debuted a new, all-flash big data analytics platform and a set of new solid-state drives to boot. The Irvine, California-based division of Japan’s Toshiba Corp. introduced the Flashmatrix analytics […]

Walmart, the world’s largest physical-destination retailer, hasn’t needed to envy many of its competitors, but Amazon.com—the world’s largest online retailer—is certainly one of the few. Thus, in an effort to catch up with the Seattle-based superseller on the web side of the business, Walmart on Aug. 8 took a major gamble on a new-generation e-commerce […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 46th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “How Behavioral Biometrics Is Innovating IT Security.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: How Behavioral Biometrics Is Innovating IT Security Date/time: […]

Blake Krikorian, a well-known and respected IT thought leader and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, died Aug. 3, apparently of a heart attack while surfing near San Francisco. He was 48. Krikorian was the co-founder, CEO and chairman of Foster City, Calif.-based Sling Media, which he launched in June 2004 with his brother, Jason. The Krikorians later […]

It’s only the first inning of the nascent internet of things market, but there are indications that valuable IoT-related data is already being wasted because connected-product manufacturers don’t know how to use it. Forrester Consulting, in conducting research commissioned by security authentication application maker LogMeIn, reported Aug. 4 that enterprises are missing a huge opportunity […]

It was bound to happen at some point: Facebook, one of world’s most prescient software-as-a-service providers, was destined to converge its hardware-development teams into a single lab. After all, although it wasn’t that well-known, the social network has been working on hardware projects for nearly as long as it has software. Some of the more […]

8 Best Practices for Keeping Your Database Secure As the deluge of data threatens to drown unprepared enterprises, proper data management and protection is a must. Here are tips to keep your data protected. Don’t Let Your Data Be a Sitting Duck Protecting data at rest through effective cryptography and tokenization is the first step […]

CIT Group Communications and Technology Finance announced Aug. 3 it has provided a $23 million senior secured line of credit to Lighthouse eDiscovery, a provider of e-discovery services. The financing will support a recapitalization of the company and expansion of Lighthouse’s U.K. operations, the company said. Lighthouse is a portfolio company of New York-based private […]

Several well-established cable and telecommunications companies, despite their huge number of employees and powerful data centers, cannot come up with their own innovation, so they’re forced to look outside and buy new IP to remain relevant. Nothing wrong with that; companies do this all the time, but it’s indicative of a clear trend in this […]

It turns out that VMware’s mobile device management service, AirWatch, was a little too complicated for a notable number of potential users, mostly those in small to medium-size enterprises. So the company did something about it Aug. 2: It launched AirWatch Express. If there is a way to simplify the complicated processes involved with managing […]

BP3 Global, a global provider of business process and decision management (BPM) software and services, has landed a $10 million investment from Nashville, Tenn.-based private equity firm Petra Capital Partners, LLC. The investment will help BP3 Global augment development of its Brazos platform, which collects data, surfaces actionable insights and makes suggestions or changes to […]

Enterprise security software maker Ping Identity on Aug. 2 improved its frontline identity-as-a-service product with the acquisition of UnboundID, a provider of customer identity and access management software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Austin, Texas-based UnboundID makes the security-access process a more personal experience for users by remembering them, thereby helping enterprises improve […]