Chris Preimesberger

Banishing the Confusion of Eight Big Data Myths by Chris Preimesberger Myth 1: We Must Hire a Hadoop Expert Hadoop is built on intricate concepts such as MapReduce, YARN, Spark and Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), and the constant change and announcements of subsystem-level technology further convolute the picture. Plenty of products and tools reduce […]

On Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2015.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: Predictions, Sure Things […]

CenturyLink, the third-largest telecommunications and Internet provider in the United States (in terms of lines served) behind AT&T and Verizon, revealed Dec. 8 that it has acquired Canadian disaster recovery software maker DataGardens. Financial details were not included in the announcement. CenturyLink, headquartered in Monroe, La., reported $18 billion in revenue in 2012. The company […]

Facebook and Google aren’t the only two big-time social networking/Web services companies that stage developer conferences. Yahoo now has joined the party. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company on Dec. 8 announced its first developer event, the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference, which will take place Feb. 19, 2015, in San Francisco. Yahoo, which acquired mobile-app analytics software […]

Persistent Systems, a well-established software developer and services provider, has decided to make a pivot to talking SMAC. In this context, SMAC means providing new enterprise solutions to solve new-gen IT problems. That’s where technology is headed and has been for several years, and Persistent has made the move in a new direction. For the […]

Why Conventional Backup, Disaster Recovery Systems Fail by Chris Preimesberger Unscheduled Downtime Has Significant Business Implications Most IT pros reported that unscheduled downtime due to a natural or IT disaster has significant business implications. The most cited included employee unproductivity (84 percent), less efficient business operations (72 percent) and damage to the company’s reputation (57 […]

How Online Retailers Can Rebuild Consumer Confidence: 10 Data Points By Chris Preimesberger Retailers Need to Educate Customers Retailers should be communicating outwardly to customers with frequency that security measures are in place, and that securing their data is a high priority. Retailers can do this by: a) offering optional higher security checkout lanes where […]

Hewlett-Packard has refreshed its portfolio of midrange and flash-optimized HP 3PAR StoreServ systems, a mainstay of the company’s storage line. The company made the announcement Dec. 2 at its annual Barcelona partner/customer conference. Thanks to the HP 3PAR File Persona software, the new systems can handle all block, file and object storage in the HP […]

It may be at the end of another challenging business year, but Hewlett-Packard isn’t looking back. Instead, the iconic IT hardware and software supplier is focusing ahead at its enterprise cloud-services future, and an announcement it made Dec. 2 at its Barcelona customers and partners conference underscores much of what that future implies. HP introduced […]

Each year at this time, RSA Security Executive Chairman and longtime industry expert Art Coviello comes out with a “state of the union”-type overview and performance summary. It’s always a cogent, thoughtful and realistic inside look at what’s going on in the business from the vendor community point of view. Because vendors rely directly on […]

In the looser-than-loose venture capital environment we’re currently experiencing, an upstart company with an idea and big plans has found the right connections and hit the jackpot. San Francisco-based Sentient Technologies (pronounced “sen-shent”), which proclaimed that it wants to build the largest, most powerful artificial intelligence network in the world, revealed Dec. 1 that it […]

Hewlett-Packard as a company may be treading financial water, but its Personal Systems group is doing quite well at this time, thanks to increasing sales of its enterprise laptops, desktops and tablets. One of those recent success stories is HP’s frontline Pro Tablet 610 Generation 1, which is finding a niche in all the enterprise […]