Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 23rd eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “How the Internet of Things Is Already Changing Our Lives.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “How the […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple Watch, introduced Sept. 9 and destined to go into general availability early next year, is a huge deal for the world’s most successful IT company: It is the first new Apple product in four years—since the iPad in January 2010. It represents an all-new direction for the company: wearables. It is also the […]

Apple Throws a Curve With Apple Watch, iPhones and More by Chris Preimesberger Apple Watch Interface The Apple Watch screen is controlled by touch, arm movement and by the “crown”—the circular wheel button on the side that traditionally was used to wind a watch. The watch, which must be used with an iPhone to get […]

SAN FRANCISCO–HGST, the largest and most influential data storage company without a generally recognized name, launched a set of new products at a media event at the Palace Hotel on Sept. 9. They included an 8TB helium-filled HDD, an all-new server-side clustering and volume management software package, and new PCIe solid-state disk drives that slide […]

If a Web service makes it too easy for unauthorized persons to purchase items online, there’s eventually going to be hell to pay for it. The Federal Trade Commission, contending that Google made it too easy for children to make in-app purchases in the Google Play store using their parents’ devices, on Sept. 4 ordered […]

As a result of the Labor Day weekend hacker attack on a number of celebrity iCloud accounts, Apple said Sept. 4 that it will begin enhanced security alerts for iCloud users as soon as possible. Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal that due to the security breach, the company now will alert […]

New-generation IT is all about removing friction from getting things done—such as speeding up the iteration and distribution of software versions and patches, accelerating process fulfillment and standardizing as many processes as possible. Nowhere is this quest for IT smoothness more important than in data centers, where virtually all cloud and enterprise systems are housed. […]

Cisco Systems, a networking hardware and software provider that has been in the enterprise storage business for only a few years, has halted shipments of its converged-system UCS Invicta flash storage appliance on a temporary basis. The production decision was made earlier this week (Sept. 2) because the San Jose, Calif.-based IT giant revealed that […]

Analytic data platforms, marketing applications, and services company provider Teradata is clearly on a big data IP shopping spree to expand its product offerings. The Ohio-based company said Sept. 3 that it has bought its third company in six weeks; this time the acquiree is big data consulting firm Think Big Analytics. Financial details of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Out of competitive necessity, cloud storage and business services provider Box is becoming more and more granular with its products and services. Whereas nine years ago the company simply offered a way for individual users to back up and store their digital content, the Los Altos, Calif.-based company now has pivoted to an exclusive […]

How relevant to all of us is the Labor Day weekend hack attack on female celebrities that exposed a number of nude photographs stored in a cloud service–in this case, Apple’s iCloud?It is indeed relevant, even though most of us are not celebrities sought after for their photographs, nude or otherwise. It’s relevant because more […]

Data storage and security provider Acronis, which normally develops and markets its own products, announced Sept. 2 that it has acquired Amsterdam-based BackupAgent to bolster its cloud backup offering for service providers. Details of the transaction weren’t disclosed.BackupAgent is designed specifically for managed service providers, hosting providers, telecom providers and cloud distributors to resell cloud […]