Chris Preimesberger

Micro-Segmentation: A Better Way to Defend the Data Center eWEEK examines the top 10 reasons why micro-segmentation can provide greater security than conventional approaches within the data center. New Security for East-West Traffic The legacy security model is hard on the outside but soft on the inside. Once attackers get through perimeter security, they have […]

Although it will cost several hundred employees their jobs, Cisco Systems is doing the wise thing by dropping its NAND flash storage array business. There are simply too many competitors who do solid-state storage better and more profitably. Less than a week after the San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant sold its TV set-top box business […]

Data management provider Actifio will be getting a lot of new exposure due to recently completed business deals with a couple of the world’s largest cloud service providers.The first entails Actifio making its enterprise-class data management available for customer workloads on Amazon Web Services. The other adds the Nearline cloud storage service on Google’s Cloud […]

Few things are harder for enterprises to control than mobile devices used by employees, personal or corporate, that may contain data logs, documents, images, videos or other files the business owns. So, cloud-based mobile device data backup provider Druva has launched Druva Proactive Compliance, a new feature for its flagship inSync product that is designed […]

Jet.com, which is attempting to merge the Costco/Sam’s Club idea of a yearly membership fee with the all-over-the-board sales attraction of Amazon.com, has launched to general availability following a beta program that processed mostly good feedback from more than 100,000 users. The Montclair, N.J.-based e-retailer, whose first general availability day was July 21, immediately set […]

In the burgeoning world of cloud-based infrastructure service providers, the rich are apparently getting richer. New second-quarter 2015 data from Synergy Research Group released July 24 finds that the cloud big four—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google—as a group control well over half of the worldwide cloud infrastructure service market. Their combined market […]

Oracle and SAP, longtime competitors in selling databases, middleware and enterprise applications, nonetheless play nice together when it comes to engineering solutions for shared customers. After all, thousands of IT shops worldwide use one or more of each company’s products, so naturally, the common goal is to make customers happy. With this as background, Oracle […]

Picture an IT system, then imagine a DVR unit recording everything that happens in that system, so that there’s a complete record of all activity as it trudges along each day. That fictional DVR would be a fair description of Denver-based startup ProtectWise, which exited stealth mode in March following two years of development and […]

10 Enterprise Use Cases That Are Driving NoSQL Adoption Personalization Personalization is an opportunity to make the right engagement—such as an ad, coupon or recommendation—with the right visitor at the right time. But the ability to ingest, process and use the amount of data necessary to create personalized experiences is a challenge for relational databases. […]

If ever there was a need for new ideas in IT security, the time is now. All one has to do is mention hacking victims like Target, Home Depot, Sony and the IRS, and the images come wincingly to mind. It’s pretty obvious that passwords, firewalls and private networks simply aren’t going to cut it […]

High-availability clustering provider SIOS Technology, formerly known in the U.S. as Steeleye, has unveiled new machine-learning analytics software that enables IT managers to optimize the performance of virtualized systems. SIOS describes its iQ standard edition as a simple-to-use, intelligent software package for understanding IT operations and resolving issues in VMware, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web […]

Securing Health Care Records: Jury Is Out on Industry Competence By Chris Preimesberger Emerging Threats in Health Care Although hackers make up one of the top five threats listed by survey responders in health care, they don’t top the chart as some might think. When it comes to the biggest threat that organizations face, according […]