Chris Preimesberger

The ultimate goal of any type of advertising is to get noticed, move a potential customer to act, and then have the consumer actually follow through on his or her own and buy the product or service. Two-thirds of that process is out of the control of the advertiser. For generations, the onus has been […]

One doesn’t hear the phrase “quality-of-service guarantee” very often in the data storage business. This is largely because storage is connected to everything else and there is a multitude of moving parts in systems that the storage controller cannot, well, control. NexGen Storage—yes, no “t,” the spelling is correct—bills itself as the industry’s leading provider […]

Like people, some companies move slower and perhaps more intentionally than others. Hitachi Data Systems is certainly one of those companies in the data storage industry. For example, Hitachi launched its cloud storage services platform in May 2013, seven full years after Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (S3) in 2006. It wanted to make […]

H2O.ai, which makes a new-gen machine-learning platform for building predictive analytics into applications, has closed a $20 million Series B funding round. Paxion Capital Partners led the round with existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Transamerica Corporation and new participant Capital One Growth Ventures joining. The company made the announcement Nov. 9 at its H2O […]

On Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Key Trends in Retail and Mobile Apps.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Key Trends in Retail and Mobile […]

Here’s yet another example of why people need to use multiple passwords when handling transactions of any type on the Internet. Comcast, the largest cable television and Internet services provider in the United States with more than 28 million subscribers, revealed Nov. 9 that it has required about 200,000 of its customers to reset their […]

Ericsson, whose days making cell phones are far, far away in its rear-view-mirror past, has been moving its intellectual property into developing IT infrastructure products and services for ISPs, government agencies and the military for years. Nothing proves this point more than the huge global partnership the Stockholm-based company announced Nov. 9 with IT networking […]

IBM announced back in February that with its new software-defined storage line, Spectrum, it intends to change the economics of—and eliminate inefficiencies in—storage forever by adding a new-gen layer of intelligent software, among other things. The company threw down a cool $1 billion to make it all happen, launched the new big data product line, […]

With the recent hot trend around automation and converged data center systems, which feature increased functionality in smaller, tighter boxes, not much has followed suit in the wide-area network sector. Until now, that is. At the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Fall 2015 event Nov. 3 in New York City, Glue Networks unveiled new proof-of-concept […]

The other day, Mashable posted an article entitled “Fourteen Things That May Not Exist in 2020.” No. 1 on the list was Metro transit cards; No. 2 was Facebook. Chocolate, of all things, was also on the list. However, by the looks of things on Nov. 4, 2015, Facebook may be around a lot longer […]

Graph database provider Neo Technology, maker of the Neo4j database, has released an open source project, openCypher, that makes the popular Cypher language freely available to technology providers as a universal way to query graph data. The Cypher language allows users to focus on their domain instead of getting lost in the mechanics of data […]

Intel, which erred tremendously 10 years ago when it turned down a proposal from Apple to supply chips for the iPhone, is bound and determined not to miss The Next Big Thing: the Internet of things. So, to make sure it’s ahead of the tech curve, the world’s largest processor maker came out Nov. 3 […]