Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, May 11, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 43rd monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Will Messaging Eventually Kill Applications?.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis.Some quick facts:Topic: “Will Messaging Eventually Kill Applications?”Date/time: May 11, 2016 @11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. […]

Seven years after Oracle filed the first legal action against Google in a dispute over use of components in the Java programming language, a new stage in the case began in federal court in San Francisco. Jury selection started May 9 in Day 1 of what has become one of the longest-running copyright infringement lawsuits […]

Even though consumers are getting more and more used to storing their data in clouds owned and operated by companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Box, Dropbox and others, there is still something valuable about having all your data in a device on your own desk. Or even in a device in your pocket that’s […]

Drones Will Soon Be Dropping Medicines to Save Lives in Rwanda A new project plans to use drones to deliver life-saving medicines, blood and vaccines to reduce juvenile mortality and the spread of malaria, among other health care issues. UPS for the Logistics, Zipline for the Deliveries Ed Martinez (left), CEO of the UPS Foundation, […]

LAS VEGAS—If you ask any of the top brass at either Dell or EMC, they are all well-rehearsed in telling you that everything is perfectly “on track” and “in order” in bringing two of the world’s largest and most successful IT hardware/software vendors together under one corporate roof by next fall. To that we say, […]

What Attendees Took Away From EMC World 2016, Besides Swag New storage, hyperconverged systems and cloud technologies, along with a new company name, were some of the highlights of the final EMC World, held this week in Las Vegas. Guess What? EMC Wants to Renew Your Storage System EMC was quite clear that the day […]

People interested in following this—probably the wildest, most unpredictable—U.S. presidential campaign ever, now can do so in real time, thanks to a new mobile app built by CNN developers from scratch using key CA Technologies tools. The CNN Politics app, built with CA’s API management and mobile analytics software, tracks the latest polling, delegate, voting […]

Last September, Backblaze—a storage mouse that roars—entered the cloud storage wars to compete directly against the likes of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Storage. Backblaze claimed at the time—and it can back it up—to have built the world’s lowest-cost cloud storage. AWS, Google and Microsoft can argue this point, but they would lose […]

LAS VEGAS—When the news came Oct. 11 that Dell was going to spend upwards of $67 billion to acquire EMC and its far-ranging IT empire and take it private, skeptics cropped up everywhere. People were commenting, for example, that two established, very successful but elderly (by Silicon Valley terms) 32-year-old IT giants certainly cannot be […]

LAS VEGAS—Big EMC has taken a tip from a much smaller Boston-based company, Actifio, and come out with its own version of a product that could eventually replace conventional data governance of everything that is not primary data. EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management (eCDM), introduced May 2 at EMC World 2016 here at the Sands […]

10 Best Practices for Network Monitoring in the Face of IT Complexity New tech helps make companies more productive but can complicate IT pros’ jobs. We look at 10 tips for network monitoring in an increasingly complex IT world. Accept That IT Complexity is Growing Faster Than Your IT Team According to the Ipswitch survey, […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC, soon to be known as Dell EMC in the enterprise IT world, on May 2 launched a global, hyperscale storage cloud to compete in a huge, emerging market with IBM Softlayer, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and a few others. The announcement of Virtustream Storage Cloud was made at EMC World […]