Chris Preimesberger

While a lot of IT companies are retooling their products and services to satisfy perceived upcoming demand for the fast-growing Internet of things and big data analytics markets, the high-performance computing market—always a substantial sector on its own—has been a bit out of the news lately. On June 20, however, Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduced several […]

How Behavioral Biometrics Is Innovating IT Security As the need grows for more robust IT security, behavioral biometrics is emerging as a solution. Here we examine the technology and its pros and cons. The Password Isn’t Enough Passwords, not people, are what fall down. Passwords alone are no longer enough to protect online accounts. With […]

Apple has joined HP Inc. and Microsoft on a list of prominent IT companies that will skip corporate financial sponsorship in the Republican National Convention, to be held in Cleveland beginning July 18. Politico reported over the weekend that Apple has told Republican leaders privately that it won’t provide money or other aid due to […]

Steve Jobs was an early despiser of Adobe Flash plug-ins and their inherent issues with back doors into personal computers, servers and data centers. He saw them and other Web plug-ins as a resident security problem for anybody using the World Wide Web. If Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer nearly five years ago, were […]

Oracle’s earnings reports have been carbon copies of each other for the last several quarters. The commonalities all involve “revenue flat or slightly lower,” “improving cloud service sales” and “eroding hardware sales.” The story was no different June 16, when the database and enterprise software maker beat Wall Street estimates by posting revenue of $10.6 […]

Even though passwords are targeted for elimination by new-gen security companies, there are still plenty of them in use out there, and they have to be managed. Upstart identity access management provider OneLogin, a relatively unknown, enterprise-level cloud-service provider with more than 1,400 customers, on June 15 announced the acquisition of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Portadi, […]

Two days after Microsoft surprised most of the IT world by revealing it would buy professional social network LinkedIn for $26 billion, Samsung pulled a surprise of its own by announcing it is buying cloud infrastructure provider Joyent for undisclosed compensation. The transaction is expected to close later this year, Samsung said. Joyent made its […]

SAN FRANCISCO—How valuable could a personal digital assistant such as Siri or Cortana be to users of customer relationship management software? And how important to CRM continuity would the automation of deep business intelligence, analytics and workflows be to the success of sales, marketing and other line-of-business employees? The answer to both: Potentially very valuable, […]

Cisco Systems, which has always partnered with other companies for its customer storage component needs, has committed a $15 million strategic investment in a startup that makes new-generation all-flash, software-defined storage. The world’s largest IT networking provider announced June 14 that its Cisco Investments arm is putting faith and cash into Israel-based Elastifile, which has […]

News-wise, Apple had been relatively quiet for about a year until June 13, or Day 1 of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Oh, there had been incremental updates of the iPhone, MacBook, Apple Watch and iPad during the last 12 months, but the deluge of new information released here made it clear that […]

SAN FRANCISCO—For anybody who had attended Google I/O three weeks ago, there was a clear feeling of déjà vu June 13 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference here.This is because a great deal of the new-gen IT functionality that was announced and demonstrated to a packed Bill Graham Civic Auditorium crowd of about 6,000 Apple […]

On Wednesday, June 8, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 44th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “New Roles for Business Intelligence in IT Development.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “New Roles for Business Intelligence in IT […]