Chris Preimesberger

Silicon Valley neighbors Equinix and Facebook have hooked up on a project that could revolutionize the way network interconnection centers are designed and operated in the future. Equinix, whose data centers provide global interconnection for public and private networks, revealed March 9 that it has incorporated Open Compute Project (OCP) technology designed by Facebook to […]

10 Ways to Determine if Your Cloud Provider Is HIPAA Compliant Confidence in cloud computing should continue to grow, particularly when cloud MSPs can clearly demonstrate the ways in which they are HIPAA-compliant. Offers a Business Associate Agreement Before a cloud managed service provider (MSP) even attempts to attract health care customers, it must be […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has joined a growing number of companies—such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, startups Nervana and BigML, Splunk and Salesforce—who see dollar-sign potential in making machine-learning analytics easily available to software developers as a cloud service. HPE on March 10 launched Haven OnDemand, which provides advanced machine-learning application programming interfaces (APIs) and services that […]

Box has been a publicly traded company for nearly 14 months, since its initial public offering on Jan. 23, 2015. It is still in “growth” mode, despite having reached its 10th birthday last year–which in financial code means it hasn’t yet hit black ink. As of March 9, when it reported its quarterly earnings and […]

On Wednesday, March 9, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 41st monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Is Data-Centric Security the Future?” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Is Data-Centric Security the Future?” Date/time: March […]

Using Employee-Facing Apps, Data Access Policies to Best Advantage This slide show offers insight into how organizations will modify employee-facing apps and data policies in 2016 to make themselves more effective and secure. Enterprises Will Move Into a Post-Mobile Age Secure app delivery technology has evolved to ensure that people can access their business apps, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell, much more well-known for PCs, storage and servers than for its security acumen, made a lot of news this past week in the data protection category. Item 1: The Round Rock, Texas-based corporation’s SecureWorks subsidiary on March 3 launched a cloud-based service that identifies threats while they are happening by identifying malicious behavior, […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, reporting its first quarterly earnings since it went independent from PC and printer maker HP Inc. last November, had good and not-so-good financial news March 3.The latter news first: The Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology pioneer reported that its profit level in its first fiscal quarter fell a whopping 52 percent to $267 million, […]

A New York-based data center operator is taking a cue from cloud service providers and is offering the first pay-per-use subscriptions for services that include physical data center space, the power to run equipment and the water to cool it, if necessary. Aligned Data Centers, a division of Aligned Energy, is now taking orders after […]

You may not think about it all that often, but there are a lot of other clouds open for business besides those run by the Big Ten (ranked by 2015 revenue): Salesforce, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Google, SAP, Workday, Citrix and CenturyLink. One of those others, Japan’s NTT Communications, which opened its enterprise cloud business […]

A whole new cottage industry is springing up around the phenomenon of containers, an open-source deployment mechanism for IT software and services that’s been around for more than a decade, but is only now injecting itself into the mainstream of tech development. Seattle-based startup Shippable is riding squarely on this upturning curve by combining three […]

Security Pros Speak Out on the Need for Cyber-Insurance In this day and age, cyber-insurance policies are necessary, but they come with a number of caveats. Ten CISOs offer tips for success in procuring the right policy. Cyber-Insurance Will Gain in Popularity Due to recent high-profile breaches wreaking havoc on many enterprises, cyber-insurance will be […]