Chris Preimesberger

Google has its automated cars, robots and space-related projects. Facebook also has some side projects of its own. The giant social networking company followed up publicly June 18 with updates on a couple of long-range projects: It officially launched an open-source switch called Wedge it has developed through the Open Compute Project and is moving […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The catchphrase “Quote-to-Cash” is being bandied about this week at the Apttus Accelerate 2014 conference at the Palace Hotel, and, as one might expect, the term is not parsed by everybody right off the top. “Quote-to-Cash” signifies a standard business process from start to finish: from having a buyer interested in a company’s product […]

Amazon Web Services has found a way to bring the advantages of speedy solid-state storage to its customers. On June 17, the giant Web services provider made available a new SSD-backed volume type for its Amazon Elastic Block Store service that provides high-performance enterprise-level storage at what it describes as a low cost. These highly […]

Deploying Disaster Recovery Through a Cloud Service: 10 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Don’t Confuse Backup With Disaster Recovery With the influx of cloud storage and cloud backup options, it’s easy to settle for a solution that promises that data is safe in the cloud. This is especially true as people race to satisfy compliance […]

Hewlett-Packard has moved into a new partnership with a company from which it has been buying services for several months: Workday. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT giant on June 17 launched HP Enterprise Applications Services for Workday, a new service option to help its clients maximize the business value of Workday Human Capital Management applications. […]

Box has added another function to its growing stockpile of workplace tools. The online storage and collaboration services provider revealed June 16 that it is acquiring 2-year-old Streem, a four-person, San Francisco-based startup that has developed a new way to effectively “stream” cloud content–any type of application–to users’ desktops. Financial details of the transaction were […]

SanDisk, best known for making those little blue memory cards for consumer mobile devices such as smartphones and cameras, is pivoting big time into the enterprise. The Milpitas, Calif.-based flash memory provider made a strategic buy into the enterprise solid-state storage business June 16 by acquiring Fusion-io for $1.1 billion. The all-cash offer is for […]

Converged infrastructure and cloud-management software maker Egenera on June 10 released a new version of its PAN Manager software that features new virtual machine-instance IT and an updated user interface. The key takeaway from this announcement is that Egenera users can manage infrastructure and cloud instances without the use of a hypervisor of any kind. […]

On Wednesday, June 11, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 21st eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Defining the Role of Data Scientist: Hottest Job in IT.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Defining the […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–In unveiling its new Oracle 12C Database In-Memory Option on June 10, Oracle ostensibly has caught up with competitor SAP’s HANA 3-year-old in-memory database, the product that has radically changed the fortunes of the German business software maker. So now let’s watch the market positioning and sales wars escalate. “Adding the In-Memory Option […]

Front- and back-office business management software maker Autotask is going the route of an increasing number of IT companies–being acquired by a private equity investment firm. San Francisco-based Vista Equity Partners will be the new owners. Vista claims about $11.5 billion in cumulative capital commitments in software, data and technology-enabled services companies. Financial terms were […]

After more than a generation of double-digit and high single-digit sales, the enterprise networked storage hardware market is beginning to see the true effects of the sea change to cloud storage. Leading companies such as EMC were breaking sales records so often a few years ago that it was hardly news anymore. EMC, the world’s […]