Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, July 8, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “The Skyrocketing Influence of Big Data Analytics in All Sectors.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: The Skyrocketing Influence […]

FreeConferenceCall.com may be pretty easy to take for granted because, well, it doesn’t cost anything. Yet the Long Beach, Calif. phone conferencing service has become the nation’s No. 3 provider of conferencing and collaboration services and has racked up rapid corporate growth, more than doubling its minutes-used volume and its workforce in the past five […]

Oracle has added yet another component to its growing enterprise cloud-services business. The general-purpose IT giant launched Oracle Commerce Cloud in a not-too-subtle swipe at top competitor Salesforce.com—which, according to Gartner Research, owns about 18 percent of the market in cloud-based customer relationship management, while Oracle is third with about 12 percent. SAP is second […]

SAN FRANCISCO—What do small businesses want more than anything from IT? Functionality? Scalability? Speed? Mobility? Sure, they want all of those features. But the “killer app” for them is simplicity. This is because most small businesses don’t have the luxury of having a full-time IT staff member, so apps and systems first have to be […]

Nine Reasons Why Texting Makes Good Business Sense by Chris Preimesberger Take Advantage of Ubiquitous Reach Pew Research recently reported that 64 percent of American adults now own a smartphone, up from 35 percent only four years ago. But regardless of carrier, location or equipment model, every mobile phone user can send and receive text […]

New-gen networking provider PubNub, which is carving out its own market sector, OTT (over the top) real-time data streaming, said July 1 that it has landed $20 million in Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from existing investors Relay Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. PubNub will use this latest round of capital […]

HP has updated its 3PAR StoreServ Storage lineup by, among other things, adding a new class of massively scalable flash arrays and flash-optimized data services to accelerate IT-as-a-Service consolidation and hybrid IT initiatives. Oh yes, and the company is having a sale of sorts (amounting to 25 percent off) on all-flash arrays. Price competition wasn’t […]

CareerBuilder long has been known for helping people get jobs and for enabling companies to find the right candidates for open positions. Now it is evolving from a top job board to a global human resources software-as-a-service company. Based on years of accumulated employment data, the Chicago-based company has launched CareerBuilder1, a cloud-based, all-encompassing HR […]

The Supreme Court of the United States, fresh off rendering historic decisions on nationalized health care and same-sex marriage, indicated June 29 that it isn’t going to decide the legal definitions of “creative” and “utilitarian” in software development. The court declined to hear Oracle vs. Google, effectively sending the five-year-old case back to a district […]

How to Determine Your Company’s Cyber-Exposure Profile By Chris Preimesberger Business Analysis Building a cyber-exposure profile should include Internet searches for vital company information that has become public, such as financial statements; documents that should be under a nondisclosure agreement (NDA); and information that can be used in social engineering. Social Media Analysis Companies should […]

Lenovo, which has been relatively quiet on the storage front lately, recently introduced two new storage area network offerings at Lenovo Tech World in Beijing that this week became generally available. The company says its Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 enterprise storage arrays are designed for simplicity, speed, scalability and availability, and that they integrate […]

Data center services provider Equinix will soon be doing a lot of business in the Far East, and its new partner, Alibaba’s Aliyun, will be doing the same in the U.S. The company signed an agreement earlier this month with Aliyun, the Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s cloud computing division, to provide direct access to Aliyun’s […]