Chris Preimesberger

Google said Nov. 14 that it has figured out why its DoubleClick advertising service went wonky the morning of Nov. 12, impacting more than 55,000 Websites displaying their content. The huge Web services provider, in an email to eWEEK and other users, said it has determined a new strategy to prevent it from happening again. […]

How to Position IT Security as an Enterprise Profit Center by Chris Preimesberger Expand Single Sign-On Beyond Employees Many large enterprises think of SSO primarily in terms of employee access to applications. While you’ll gain efficiency and improve security across your employee base, expanding your view to include customer and partner access to critical applications […]

Okta, a highly regarded new-gen enterprise identity management cloud service, is going mobile. If that isn’t enough, the company also is strengthening its multifactor authentication package. The San Francisco-based cloud service this week released its Mobility Management package, which formally enters Okta into the $4 billion market for enterprise mobility management. The company made the […]

Anybody who says there’s nothing new under the sun–or clouds–ought to read this story. Cloud storage and collaboration service provider ownCloud (yes, with a lower-case “o”) has found a way to sync up files from all over the place–from the cloud, to enterprise silos, to personal connected storage devices, to other disparate places–and make them […]

Amazon Web Services, which celebrated a notable milestone earlier this year when it blew past the 1 million mark in its roster of business- and government-related customers, introduced a major new product Nov. 12 on Day 1 of its re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas: the Aurora database analytics engine. Looks like the long-popular, open-source […]

Yahoo, flush with some new money to invest as a result of its lucrative stake in the newly gone-public Alibaba, revealed that it is acquiring San Francisco-based BrightRoll to bolster its video advertising business. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web search and services company said it will pay about $640 million in cash to take ownership of […]

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 25th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “How Robotics Will Impact Future Workforces.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “How Robotics Will Impact Future Workforces”Date/time: […]

Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley: Innovators Awarded for Breakthroughs By Chris Preimesberger Colorful, One Might Say The Breakthrough Prizes staging team did a marvelous job on the huge hangar for the event. The greenhouse-style structure inside (at bottom) seated about 500 guests, including such non-technical folks as former Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, movie producer […]

Novitex Enterprise Solutions, which was known for a generation as Pitney Bowes Management Services before spinning off about a year ago, on Nov. 11 launched a new cloud-based managed print services package. Novitex uses a vendor-agnostic, data-driven approach to handling an enterprise’s on-premises and mobile print services and does it by enabling employees to print […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Hollywood glamour and showbiz panache engulfed Silicon Valley Nov. 9 in the form of the second annual Breakthrough Prizes, which took place at a lavish gala dinner event at the brilliantly lit and staged Hangar One at NASA Ames Federal Airfield. Hangar One, built for the Navy airship, the USS Macon, dates back […]

Why It’s Important to Know All Your Storage Options by Chris Preimesberger Plenty of Choices for Hard Disk, Solid-State Media Storage architecture options with and without NAND flash are available in an array of options. Make sure you’re educated on the pros and cons of your architectural options before making a choice on what is […]

BALTIMORE, Md. — We all love data points. These are ostensible truths, backed by research or other references, that are analyzed and made into bite-size pieces that everybody hopefully can understand and use. CyberMaryland 2014 wrapped up last week at the Baltimore Convention Center with sessions devoted to technology transition, infrastructure security, business development and […]