Chris Preimesberger

STANFORD, Calif.—Since the current president took office in 2009, the U.S. federal government has been pushing buttons to promote cooperation among law enforcement, the military, the private sector and its own agencies to band together and share information in order to stop—or least slow down—the increasing number of security breaches happening in the world. Cyber-security […]

Talk about old school: Cambridge University, in Cambridge, England, is the very definition of the term. This is an institution that was founded in 1209, the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s fourth-oldest continually operating university. It may be venerable, but it is thinking strictly new-generation when it comes to its IT […]

Servers, CPUs, storage arrays and networking equipment have all gone through so-called “converged” stages—meaning more functionality is being crammed into smaller and smaller hardware form factors. So it follows that somebody would come up with converged functions in software. Toronto-based cloud backup provider Asigra is doing just that with version 13 of its platform, launched […]

Key Factors to Consider Before Adopting an SDN Offering by Chris Preimesberger Still More of a Concept Off the top, let’s get real about software-defined networking: Even after a couple of years as a buzzword, it’s still more of a concept than a specific product, and that makes sorting out the vendor claims difficult. Let’s […]

Users Increasingly Turning to Social Log-in/Federated Identity by Chris Preimesberger Facebook Takes a Big Leap Forward Facebook saw its biggest gain as an identity provider on mobile devices in Q4 2014 with a huge 15 percent boost over Q3. The company’s focus on winning the war for mobility identity seems to be paying off as […]

Data management provider Actifio is building what it calls a “resiliency cloud” with a new product it launched Feb. 9. Actifio One is software as a service (SaaS) that provides businesses of any size with a fast way to make applications available when and where they need them—and in the case of an outage. The […]

On Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Wearables in the Workplace.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Wearables in the Workplace Date/time: Feb. 11, 2014 @11a.m. […]

By far the single most important factor when deploying an enterprise app is to make sure the user interface is intuitive and easy to use, according to a QuinStreet survey of IT and business professionals released Feb. 10. QuinStreet is the publisher of eWeek. Ease of use is the most important factor for 83 percent of […]

10 Ways Workspaces Will Evolve During the Next 12 Months by Chris Preimesberger Workplace Has Little to Do With Place As people increasingly use personal smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices for work, when they work and from where are becoming less relevant. In fact, Forrester Research reports that 61 percent of information workers work […]

Apple on Feb. 6 made available for its worldwide list of registered developers and OS X beta testers the first OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite beta. The move came only about a week after the company released OS X 10.10.2 to general availability. This particular beta release is unusual because it is basically v10.10.2 with one […]

10 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Building Your First Mobile App By Chris Preimesberger Don’t Bring Conventional ‘Application Thinking’ to Your App Project As Gartner Research has noted, “apps” and “applications” are not the same thing. Applications are monsters prized for their long lists of capabilities, while apps are valued for doing a few things […]

In an effort to bolster virtualization choices in its product line, Brocade Communications Systems on Feb. 5 said it will acquire Riverbed Technology’s SteelApp product line in an all-cash asset transaction. Financial details were not released. SteelApp is a respected virtual application delivery controller (ADC), providing scalable, secure and elastic delivery of enterprise, cloud and […]