Chris Preimesberger

How to Safeguard Your Network During March Madness by Chris Preimesberger Monitor the Network for Availability or Poor Performance Your enterprise network transports vital, sensitive information. Any disruption in availability or performance degradation could spell serious damage to business and productivity. Every company should be focused on vigilant monitoring of its network availability and performance. […]

Eight Key Attributes That Identify a Truly Hyperconverged IT System by Chris Preimesberger It Is a Single-Vendor Solution This is developed, delivered and supported by a single vendor to streamline acquisition, deployment, management and support and reduce complexity, interoperability issues and operational expenses. It Has a Single Shared Pool of x86 Resources This is a […]

VMware released a new version of its all-purpose Horizon 6 virtualization package, continuing the expansion of its next-gen virtual desktop product line. The latest release of Horizon 6, announced March 12, is designed to centrally manage any group of enterprise physical or virtual desktops. It features several new capabilities, including application publishing; 3D application support; […]

In expectation of what undoubtedly will be a lengthy and expensive series of court battles over administrative control of access to the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission on March 12 reinforced its position that the Internet—whether wired or wireless—should be considered a public utility. In doing this, it released for the first time a 400-page […]

Apple has had its ups and its downs this week. Less than 48 hours after the company triumphed with its launch of Apple Watch and two new MacBook notebook PCs on Monday, its all-important Web storefronts were knocked offline for about 12 hours, beginning at 2 a.m. Pacific time on Wednesday. Apple issued a rare […]

On Wednesday, March 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Cloud Services: Who Runs Them: IT, Business or the Rogues.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Cloud Services: Who […]

10 Factors Now Having a Major Impact on Cloud IT by Chris Preimesberger IoT Reaches Escape Velocity, Fueled by Cloud IoT, the promise of adding greater value to our electronic devices by giving device owners the ability to control and monitor them over the Internet, requires that devices are networked and can communicate with each […]

GigaOm, a well-known and respected online IT trade publication and analysis firm has ceased operations for financial reasons, according to a March 9 note on its website. Founder and publisher Om Malik, a former Forbes columnist who started GigaOm as a blog in December 2001, posted this note on the site’s home page: “A brief […]

In basketball, there are playmakers and there are non-playmakers. A playmaker is someone who is fast and talented enough to dribble himself into position to take a good or high-percentage shot; a non-playmaker simply isn’t quick or talented enough to make his own shot and has to rely on other players to pass him the […]

Apple Gilds Smartwatch Lineup With $10,000 18-Karat Gold Model by Chris Preimesberger Gold Standard The Apple Watch Edition, star of the show on March 9, elicited audible gasps in the audience when the price ($10,000) was revealed. It will have all the features Apple can cram into it—plus an 18-karat-gold body that’s twice as hard […]

Apple continues to make moves that directly impact users who shoot photos and store them in iCloud. The company, which announced Feb. 6 that its new Photos app will replace 13-year-old iPhoto, also is phasing out Aperture, its professional-level photo-management software. Aperture users were notified March 5 that the application will soon be removed from […]

Sales of enterprise storage systems, which endured a leveling off and even a slight downturn several quarters ago, are officially back on track. IDC reported March 6 in its Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker that total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew 7.2 percent year-over-year to nearly $10.6 billion during the fourth quarter […]