Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—Little did attendees at DreamForce 2014 know Oct. 13 that they would become witnesses to a key Microsoft strategy data point regarding the world’s most ubiquitous operating system. Operating systems are simply not on the topic list at a cloud services conference like this one at the Moscone Center here. But Tony Prophet (at […]

For those of you who might have thought enterprise resource planning apps are old and creaky and not keeping up with the times, you’re in for a lesson. Kenandy, Salesforce’s first cloud ERP application, announced Oct. 13 at the DreamForce 2014 conference that it has joined the Salesforce Analytics Cloud ecosystem, called Wave, to offer […]

For 15 years, Salesforce has been about collecting and distributing data on customer relationships, sales, cloud-based enterprise workflows, marketing clouds and everything imaginable surrounding those functions. On Oct. 13, Day 1 of its annual DreamForce users conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the company that Marc Benioff built unveiled a new level of involvement with […]

So Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symantec are going the ways of Xerox, IBM and other large IT companies. They soon will be trying to becoming lighter and more agile by hacking off parts of the tree that aren’t growing quite as well as some others. Huge isn’t always good, especially in the IT products and services […]

NoQSL database provider Couchbase has unveiled a 3.0 version of its Couchbase Server, a release the CEO says is its most significant to date. Couchbase 3.0 introduces more than 200 new features and enhancements, including major extensions to its core architecture that improve the scalability, reliability and performance of the distributed database, CEO Bob Wiederhold […]

Amazon, born and raised on the Web to eventually become the world’s largest e-tailer, is apparently planning to begin stacking its products on real, not just virtual, shelves. The company reportedly is preparing to open its first storefront— on 34th Street near Macy’s, the Empire State Building and Herald Square in New York City—just in […]

How Splunk Aims to Tame Flood of Internet of Things Data By Chris Preimesberger The Boss Man Holds Court Splunk Chairman and CEO Godfrey Sullivan brought humor and a positive stage presence to his opening keynote as he introduced key Splunk customers Coca-Cola, GE Capital and Red Hat. Each of them explained why they chose […]

It isn’t all that often that the IT world in the United States gets a bright new import from Italy. This happens with cars and food, perhaps, but not with IT products. Milan-based Boole Server, a provider of enterprise file sharing and data protection in Europe, has announced the opening of its two North American […]

LAS VEGAS–If you suspect someone in your organization cannot be trusted anymore, or you are worried about a potential cyber-attack, there’s a new security startup that may be of interest to you. Six-month-old Exabeam, which focuses on big data security analytics, launched both itself and its platform here Oct. 6 at the Splunk .conf2014 conference. […]

LAS VEGAS—An old friend of Splunk is now a new OEM partner: Amazon Web Services. Splunk, the new-generation machine-data platform provider, and AWS have been partners for a long while on some other products and services. But starting Oct. 28, Splunk will make available its Hunk product directly from the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) […]

LAS VEGAS–Hewlett-Packard’s Oct. 5 announcement that it intends to split into two independent companies–one for hardware, one for software and services–in order to survive in the new-gen economy is a clear indicator of the serious issues facing older-line IT companies. Newer, smaller and more agile companies, specializing in specific corners of the IT business, are […]

On Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 24rd eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “New-Gen Enterprise Collaboration Tools and Why We Need Them.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “New-Gen Enterprise Collaboration […]