Chris Preimesberger

Would you shell out $600 for a business card-shaped, NAND flash data storage device that can hold 1TB of content? For at least a sliver of the consumer market, Samsung thinks the answer is yes. At the CES 2015 show in Las Vegas Jan. 6, the South Korean IT giant introduced its latest solid-state storage […]

Passwords, a mainstay of IT security for decades, are unquestionably on the way out when it comes to device or account security. It’s simply too easy for a motivated hacker with the right tools to discover one or more of a typical user’s passwords and do serious damage to bank and credit accounts. There are […]

Here’s a list of product announcements and subsequent links for more information from CES 2015 Press Day, which featured 26 exhibitor press conferences on Jan. 5. Major Press Day product announcements included: Audioengine B2 Premium 24-bit Bluetooth Speaker: Wirelessly stream music from any Bluetooth-enabled device — computer, iDevice, or Android phone. High-quality Audioengine stereo sound; […]

Dish Network on Jan. 5 announced at CES 2015 that it is activating its long-anticipated video-streaming service, called Sling TV, which will become a new low-cost alternative to standard cable network offerings. The satellite TV provider was clear to note that Sling TV is not connected to Sling Media, the Foster City, Calif.-based company known […]

It’s hard to understand how spinning-disk hard drives can get much skinnier and lighter than the ones coming out this year. Yet the design engineers and device manufacturers keep topping each other with thinner, faster and more capacious storage devices all the time. The latest—the steel-framed USB 3.0 Seagate Seven—is a minuscule 7mm from skin […]

In any given year, the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is mostly off-the-charts congestion of unprecedented proportions, employing every cab in sight and bringing in 100,000 to 120,000 out-of-towners to the two major pavilions at the Convention Center and other locations. However, with the almost infinite market potential involving the so-called Internet of […]

10 Changes on the Horizon for Networking in 2015 By Chris Preimesberger Content Delivery Disrupts Cable Providers With the exception of the switch to digital several years ago, the cable industry has largely remained the same for several years; 2015 will be the year that this changes. With the advent and rise of streaming content […]

As pointed out by Oracle Big Data and Analytics Vice President Neil Mendelson the other day here in eWEEK, data is now a new form of capital. Ultimately, Mendelson said, information about people, places and things will truly differentiate enterprises. Accordingly, the more data enterprises store up about their customers, the markets, their competitors and […]

The Seven Largest Insider-Caused Data Breaches of 2014 by Chris Preimesberger Korea Credit Bureau In January, it was revealed that 27 million records were stolen from the Korea Credit Bureau, including names, resident registration numbers and credit card details for 40 percent of the population of South Korea. A computer contractor working for the Korea […]

How Copy Data Virtualization Helps Boost IT Efficiency by Chris Preimesberger Know the Two Types of Data Enterprises have two kinds of data: production data and copy data. Production data is the data flowing through the applications that power your business right now. Copy data is everything else. This is data produced by those same […]

10 Things to Expect From the Cloud Hosting Sector in 2015 by Chris Preimesberger Pricing for Usage Becomes More Granular While not all cloud-based services bill alike, the general trend has been toward more granularity in billing. At the onset, cloud billing was typically billed in per-hour increments. From there, some providers moved to 10 […]

It’s Jay Kidd’s job to look ahead at all times. Kidd leads the Chief Technology Office at NetApp, the world’s No. 2-ranked independent storage provider, with responsibility for overall technology direction, architecture, advanced development, technology evangelism and technology standards. Each year, Kidd—who’s been in the data storage business for more than two decades and has […]