Chris Preimesberger

It’s amazing that one little iPhone 5C has become the crux of a personal data privacy vs. national security firestorm with implications that could affect all of us—in fact, the world at large—for years and decades to come. In fact, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see on TV someday Don Wildman, host of the […]

9 Ways for an Enterprise to Improve Its Threat Intelligence Strategy Keeping an eye on the big picture, reducing operational threats and maintaining profitability should be fundamental to a company’s threat intelligence strategies. Go Beyond Passive Intelligence Gathering There are three primary means of gathering cyber-threat intelligence: 1) signals intelligence (SIGINT) results from intercepting and […]

Samsung, which staged one of the most popular demonstrations at CES 2016 with its Gear virtual reality software inside Facebook’s Oculus headsets, did it again at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona Feb. 21. This time, however, Facebook made more news by announcing some even newer technology for people to experience. At the Samsung Galaxy […]

Saama Technologies, which has been in the big data interpretation business longer than most companies (since 1997), on Feb. 18 announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft which will bring its analytics engine and services to a much wider audience through the Azure Cloud. Campbell, Calif.-based Saama made the announcement at its Intuition customer and developer […]

DB Networks has released a first-of-its-kind database sensor that provides makers of security software with real-time, deep-protocol analysis of database traffic—inside or outside the firewall. It’s probably not possible to gather too much network information when guarding against cyber-threats. So the more data a system can generate about legitimate users, the ones trying to break […]

How to Ensure a Successful Hybrid Cloud Enterprise Email Deployment Although we cover hybrid clouds frequently, what we don’t often discuss is how email can be run optimally inside a hybrid system. Determine the Level of Automation or Manual Intervention If you are moving to hybrid for redundancy and disaster recovery, then build the architecture […]

Toshiba’s U.S.-based storage division made news in two areas this week, launching a new 1TB solid-state drive for end-user devices Feb. 16 and announcing Feb. 17 that Dell will be the first OEM to use a second new SSD inside its enterprise servers. The SG5 is Toshiba’s first client Serial ATA (SATA) SSD to support […]

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Feb. 17 began the ugly task of carrying out her grim orders from the board of directors and vocal investors: to trim back the Internet pioneer’s operations—including the full-time employee head count by 15 percent—in the view of declining revenue. As a result, about 1,700 of the company’s 11,000 full-time […]

Object storage provider Caringo is doing for big data storage convergence what Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and EMC/VMware are doing for servers. The Austin, Texas-based appliance maker on Feb. 16 launched a new data center device called Swarm 8, a storage platform that combines data protection, management, organization and a search engine and is […]

Anybody who thinks the tech sector may be getting close to another economic bubble similar to 16 years ago had better inform the venture capital community. There’s still a lot of investment capital going into new ventures everywhere we look; just check eWEEK’s Tech Deals section every so often. Machine learning-automation provider DataRobot is the […]

VMware, which only last week released a major upgrade to its vSAN storage software package, now has a new use case for it: inside the new hyper-converged data center appliance its parent company, EMC, and its vBlock-making hardware arm, VCE, introduced Feb. 16. EMC and VMware, in unveiling the VCE VxRail Appliance during a media […]

The next time you queue up a movie or other show on Netflix, know that what you are experiencing is all borne of the cloud. Maybe you didn’t bother thinking about that previously, but that’s OK. Many people are taking cloud computing for granted a lot now, and it’s only been 10 years since Amazon […]