Chris Preimesberger

Yahoo reportedly will be facing a few crucial days of reckoning Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week when its board of directors meets on the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif., campus. Three years and four months into CEO Marissa Meyer’s attempted turnaround of the pioneering Web services and Internet advertising giant, prospects for revenue improvement haven’t […]

Judging from the metrics of this year’s Cyber Monday sales on Nov. 30, it appears that buyers acquired more goods and spent more money — yet they used less bandwidth to do it.Bustling online sales, especially late in the day, sparked Cyber Monday revenues to break through the $3 billion mark for the first time, […]

Mark Zuckerberg has been around a mere 31 years, yet he’s already made billions of dollars as co-founder, CEO and chairman of Facebook. Now he’s planning to give away virtually all of that money to charity by the end of his time on Earth, however long that may be. Like they say, it’s only money—albeit […]

Why Edge Data Centers Play Increased Role in Global Connectivity Data centers that house the cloud systems that serve up the apps used on connected devices are popping up all over the globe, and often in cities away from the traditional core markets. Edge IT Continues to Expand Globally Edge data centers are effectively bringing […]

Data-reduction specialist Permabit Technology has been busy lately. On Dec. 1, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company advanced its storage efficiency wares to a higher level with the release of a new data optimizer for original equipment manufacturers and service providers. Last month, Permabit added two new patents to its portfolio of technology innovations—the third and fourth […]

Predictive business analytics initiatives can be tricky to set up correctly and to obtain desired results, if each instance doesn’t contain the exact right query and data sources. This is where data scientists can be extremely valuable. But what if you don’t have a data scientist on staff? Many times, similar queries come up in […]

A team of technology billionaire all-stars is huddling up to create a privately run green energy fund to help steer the world away from hydrocarbons to environmentally-friendly energy sources. The key big names—and pocketbooks—are owned by Bill Gates (U.S., Microsoft), Richard Branson (U.K., Virgin Group), Jack Ma (China, Alibaba), Jeff Bezos (U.S., Amazon), Mark Zuckerberg […]

How to Secure Your Small Business With Big Business Protection Here are the top 10 network security challenges faced by small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in 2015 and tips to address them. Layer Your Security The challenge: Network attacks are becoming more widespread, intelligent and difficult to detect, leaving SMBs at an even greater risk […]

Back on Oct. 26, eWEEK published a slideshow entitled “Why Relational Databases Don’t Handle Big Data Well.” It was an op-ed piece that looks at one side of the database debate and was labeled as such. This point of view was espoused by Matt Allen, senior manager of product solutions at NoSQL database specialist MarkLogic. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co., founded at the dawn of World War II and serving as a publicly held company from January 1978 until Oct. 31, 2015, rode a quiet trail into the sunset Nov. 24. Its two surviving descendants, HP Enterprise and HP Inc., born Nov. 1, will carry on the Bill Hewitt-David Packard business in smaller […]

Microsoft and Avere Systems, a hybrid cloud storage startup, have struck a strategic relationship to use Avere’s Virtual FXT Edge filers in the Azure cloud. Avere’s virtualized network-attached storage (NAS) package gives companies the ability to store files anywhere in the cloud or on premises without sacrificing the performance, availability or security of their data. […]

Fortscale Security, a new-gen security provider that uses behavioral analytics to protect against insider threats, has been busy the last few weeks. After launching v2.0 of its suite earlier in the month, the San Francisco-based startup announced Nov. 24 that it has banked a total of $16 million in funding and has added a pair […]