Chris Preimesberger

Laptops aren’t in vogue right now, especially with millennials, but they’re not going away anytime soon. Smartphones obviously are smaller, more portable, easier for texting and much more difficult to use for business, especially for older people. The tablet became popular five years ago because it was an “in-betweener.” Now, however, even tablet sales are […]

Seattle-based DevOps automation software provider Chef, once upon a time known as Opscode, on July 12 introduced a new platform, Chef Automate, that unifies Chef’s entire product portfolio into a single package. The announcement was made at ChefConf 2016 in Austin, Texas. Chef, a DevOps pioneer that is prominent among the trend’s leading vendors, said […]

On Wednesday, July 13, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 45th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Hot New Trends and Products in Health Care IT.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Hot New Trends and Products in […]

For a long time, encryption was like drinking prune juice or taking castor oil for employees in an enterprise—they only used it when they absolutely had to. No so anymore. Encryption for data storage and email security is now almost mainstream within enterprises, largely because: a) internal and cyber-security issues are at an all-time high; […]

Facebook’s live video feature has received a lot of attention lately because its gazillions of amateur users are beating professional television news crews to news events. Armed with this type of service on a smartphone, any pedestrian who happens to be in the right place at the right time can straighten up the phone, push […]

Facebook keeps on developing new features for its fast-growing Messenger platform, lending additional credibility to the idea that messaging apps are the way of the future in Internet protocol communications. Facebook bought the WhatsApp Messenger two years ago for $19 billion to replace its chat feature on individual home pages, and the team has been […]

Axcient’s mission in life is efficiency: to stop waste of money, power, capacity and time in IT. It’s dead set on trying to accomplish this. Market researchers have calculated that the legacy on-premises IT infrastructure market is worth more than $100 billion annually, in terms of replacement goods and services. Axcient, a pioneer in providing […]

How Modern Information-Rights Management Improves Security, Compliance New-gen information-rights management can help boost security and compliance by enabling strong encryption, enforcing policies and controlling access to data. What’s So Modern About Information-Rights Management? The pressure to make better decisions faster and collaborate with external partners puts immense strain on IT teams to protect confidential information. […]

8 Ways to Speed Up Your Organization’s Data Storage Performance The data deluge can seriously impact the speed of your infrastructure, including storage. Here are some tips to speed things up and keep them moving. Deploy Server Flash as an Acceleration Tier Deploying flash in the server is very effective because data access is fast […]

When Mark Zuckerberg was working in his dorm room writing code for the app that was to become Facebook more than a dozen years ago, it’s pretty certain that he did not in his wildest dreams foresee that his invention would one day turn out to become a key witness in crimes being committed in […]

Enterprise mobile services platform provider Mist Systems has launched the first two services for its indoor cloud platform, Business-Critical Wi-Fi and its patented Virtual Bluetooth Low EnergyT. CTO and co-founder Bob Friday, a former longtime Cisco Systems manager, described Mist as the first extensible, programmable microservices cloud architecture for the indoor wireless technologies of Wi-Fi […]

Google is known for plenty of innovation emanating from within its own walls, but sometimes it’s simpler and more direct to buy specific types of intellectual property in order to get a project up and running. Barely a month after launching a machine-learning research center in Zurich, Google July 6 decided to expand its artificial […]