Chris Preimesberger

Pure Storage, one of the true rising stars in solid-state NAND flash storage—and, in fact, all of IT—filed for an initial public stock offering August 12 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Not that this was a surprise to people in the business. The six-year-old company had been valuated by private investors at a reported […]

10 Ways to Save Your IT Department From Alert Fatigue IT alert fatigue—caused by the constant stream of notifications admins receive—has become a serious problem. Here are 10 ways organizations can eliminate it. Start With a Notification Plan IT leaders now see themselves as strategic business value generators for the company. According to a 2013 […]

Ten years after a contentious merger with Symantec that combined two then-industry leaders, but also included a clash of leadership and cultures, data management and storage provider Veritas was sold Aug. 11 to a private equity firm. The deal cost Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C., and its Singaporean partner, GIC, $8 billion in cash and […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Social Networks: How They Can Help or Hinder Enterprises.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Social Networks: How They […]

Is Google just too big to be regular Google anymore? On Aug. 10, the company said, in effect, “Yep, we are.” If you have any doubts about the physicality of this, just ask the city of Mountain View, Calif., where the company’s headquarters sprawls out to cover most of the eastern side of the city […]

STANFORD, Calif.—Sports news channels informed us that in women’s professional tennis at the Bank of the West Classic Aug. 9 in Silicon Valley, No. 14-ranked Angelique Kerber of Germany (pictured) won the tournament in three hard-earned sets over Karolina Pliskova of Czechoslovakia, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. But what they aren’t necessarily explaining is that Kerber, now […]

Storage in remote clouds is playing a steadily increasing role in enabling collaborative workflows in the media and entertainment industries, according to a new study released Aug. 5 by storage research specialist Coughlin Associates. Overall cloud storage for media and entertainment is expected to grow by a whopping multiple of 24 between 2014 and 2020 […]

If you’re a public figure, like The Rock, Taylor Swift or Barack Obama, you now have a new way to interact with your followers on Facebook. The Social Network on Aug. 5 introduced live video interaction for public figures via Facebook Mentions, a new app that enables athletes, musicians, politicians and other influencers to talk […]

On the heels of Intel-Micron’s July 28 introduction of 3D XPoint memory processors, Toshiba America Electronic Components has unveiled its own new generation of multi-level memory chips: the BiCS flash, a three-dimensional (3D) stacked cell structure flash memory. BiCS (Bit Cost Scalable) flash is considered within the industry as one of the most promising candidates […]

Virtual Instruments, which makes a highly regarded analytics platform for data center infrastructure performance management (IPM), announced Aug. 4 that it has upgraded its frontline VirtualWisdom application platform. The newest version (v4.3) of the vendor-agnostic VirtualWisdom suite is designed to ensure high performance for enterprise applications spanning all computing environments — physical, virtual and cloud. […]

It started in the 1960s with time-sharing on mainframes. Then, in the ’90s, there came the ASPs (application service providers). In the 2000s, public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds took over. Things continue to evolve; now we’re moving into public and hybrid clouds for specialized purposes or for vertical industries. GE, which named in […]

Eight Reasons Why Your Server Security Is Insufficient The armored-car approach to server security isn’t doing the job. And new techniques are unproven. What’s a data center manager to do? There Are Generally Too Many Parts Market fragmentation has produced myriad specialized security tools used in combination to protect server infrastructure. The problem is that […]