Chris Preimesberger

Like the cloud before it a decade ago, big data analytics is beginning to find its mainstream place in the midrange and large enterprise. This is mainly because enterprises that have finished testing its potential are now starting to deploy effective production use cases. On the supplier side, vendors are now fine-tuning their analytics platforms—if […]

BlueJeans Network thinks using live video to communicate in business or with family and friends has been way too difficult. So it has focused itself on making it so easy that users won’t have to default to conference phone calls anymore. To facilitate this, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company on April 12 launched its Enterprise […]

Day 2 of Facebook’s F8 conference was artificial intelligence day on the waterfront at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, where about 3,000 developers and some interloping journalists were hanging out April 13 on a picturesque day. Oh yes, there also were about 1 million others watching the proceedings via the Webcast, wishing they […]

With cloud services now pretty much a standard way of running IT business in most sectors, we’re starting to hear now about how this shift is spawning new digital economies. Naturally, these are self-serving in some ways for their creators, but there’s an element of truth in all of them. The “Service Economy” is one […]

Facebook sent reporters scrambling to process a virtual big data workload of news April 12 on Day 1 of its yearly F8 Conference on the waterfront at Fort Mason in San Francisco. While the social network was tight-lipped ahead of time on the bulk of the news items, at least one had been anticipated by […]

Box is getting geographically granular with its storage services, and it will be using the expertise of both Amazon Web Services and IBM to do it. At Box World Tour Europe on April 12, Box responded to evolving European Union regulations by announcing Box Zones, which will provide enterprises with new choices as to where […]

On Wednesday, April 13, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 42nd monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “How AR and VR Will Impact Us All.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “How AR and VR […]

Lexalytics, which makes text-analytics software for both cloud and on-premises systems, has launched what it claims to be the first native text-analytics package for a mobile operating system—in this case, Android. The Boston-based company has been providing semantic text-analysis processing for large corporations for 13 years; now, as of April 6, it has released the […]

SanDisk made a simple but potentially significant claim April 11: After it updated its frontline all-flash storage system with 1G-bps SAS connectivity to produce 2 million input-output operations per second (IOPS), it determined that it is now twice as fast as it was previously. Let’s put this into a different perspective: If we all doubled […]

Non-bakery startup Pyze has a noble mission: It wants to democratize business intelligence by making that functionality available right out of the box for mobile application developers. Data scientists? Who needs them? Write natural language queries and let the software do all the heavy lifting. The 3-year-old company emerged from stealth 10 days ago to […]

In case you hadn’t noticed, automated everything is all the rage in the IT products and services world. There’s at least one company so into the trend that it’s even named for it: Automic. Actually, Automic predates the current automation trend by an entire generation, seeing the IT automation future years ago. It started way […]

Puppet, which specializes in automating the new-gen delivery and operation of software, had a trifecta of news items to announce on April 7. First of all, the corporate name Puppet Labs is no more. It’s now Puppet only; simpler, and it was what everybody was calling the company anyway. The company even owns the URL […]