Chris Preimesberger

This isn’t the way co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo expected to see their pioneer Web media company end up, that much is certain. Yahoo appears—to borrow a baseball analogy—to be on the way to going, going, gone, and not in the home-run sense of the term. When the venerable Internet pioneer’s board of directors […]

China’s Huawei Technologies has laid out a clear challenge to EMC (and thus to its soon-to-be owner, Dell), IBM and NetApp: It intends to break into the top tier of storage hardware and software providers in the world within three years. “We don’t want to just be No.1 in China … we want to be […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Dell is going into 2016 fortified with new SKUs (stock keeping units), services and solutions like no other calendar-year edition of the company since it opened for business in 1984. Executives at the Round Rock, Texas-based company are almost giddy at the prospects of what they’ll soon be able to sell. Dell […]

MapR appears to be the new traffic cop at the intersection of batch analytics, real-time data flow processing and new-gen enterprise storage. That’s a pretty good place to be standing, considering that many major IT trends now touch all of those components. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on Dec. 8 introduced a converged data platform, […]

Like most Tier 1 IT products and services providers, Cisco Systems is constantly on the lookout for new talent and ideas within the sectors where it plays the most—networking, collaboration, security and business analytics. The company puts its money where its front lobby is: When it finds talent, it rewards it. At the Internet of […]

Savvy database admins are already well aware of this, but starting Dec. 1, Oracle quietly canceled two of its licensing schemes and is now requiring buyers of those licenses to buy into a new, potentially much more expensive one called SE2. Oracle is doing away with its longtime Standard Edition and Standard Edition 1 database […]

On Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2016.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Predictions, Sure Things […]

Search engines, social networks, banks and credit card companies already collect and maintain huge data stores on their users. So do major retailers and service providers, to the extent customers allow personal information to be handed over to them. Now, any company that does business through digital channels can manage its own customer information using […]

Kroll Ontrack Reveals Its List of Worst Data Disasters of 2015 There is always hope that the data you think is missing can be retrieved. Here are Kroll Ontrack’s most interesting data disaster recoveries of 2015. Fire Plus Water Equal Solution or Problem? (U.K.) When you store all of your data on your laptop in […]

All-flash storage systems are getting both faster and less expensive, if “cheaper” isn’t exactly the right adjective. Violin Memory, a pioneer of all-flash storage for primary workloads, on Dec. 2 added two new arrays to its frontline set of new-gen storage machines that fit both of these descriptions. The additions of the FSP 7600 and […]

As Yahoo’s annual board of directors meeting continued Dec. 3, reports of potential buyers for parts of the under-performing Web services and advertising media giant are cropping up all over the place. Yahoo plans to reorganize could emerge after the board completes its deliberations on Dec. 4. Among the stories were messages to the effect […]

9 Tools Marketers Need to Help Accurately Measure Digital ROI The ability to track the returns on digital investments is crucial in marketing. We discuss nine technologies that should be in marketers’ toolboxes. Web Analytics Seventy-three percent of marketers currently use a Web analytics technology, such as Google Universal Analytics or Adobe Analytics (metric via […]