Chris Preimesberger

Subscribing to business analytics services through cloud providers is quickly replacing some very expensive on-premises software in many enterprises. This is a trend that doesn’t appear to have a limitation at the moment. SAP, which already has a lot of skin in the game because its own older analytics software is installed in numerous systems […]

Enterprise data backup and disaster recovery is always a pain to have to install, test, evaluate, and then deploy when a disruption occurs. Most often, the data never gets restored correctly, fully or at least in a timely fashion. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done in this sector to […]

Banking and financial-services IT are going through their biggest refreshes in decades right about now. Not only is the April 8 Microsoft decommission of Windows XP operating systems forcing system managers to update their software and re-educate employees, but the advent of the Internet of things (IoT), cloud services and the proliferation of mobile devices […]

Business planning and processing cloud service provider Anaplan announced May 13 at its Hub 2014 conference in San Francisco that it has completed a Series D round of $100 million in financing, bringing total investment in the company to $150 million. Led by DFJ Growth, the round includes investments from Brookside Capital, Coatue Management, Sands […]

Is the May 9 court ruling in Washington, D.C., in the Oracle vs. Google Java copyright lawsuit an intractable blow against common procedures that save time and work in software development? Might be. If the ruling ultimately holds, there will be a lot of upset programmers out there who will be looking over their shoulders […]

On Wednesday, May 14, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 20th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Software-Defined Everything: Truth or Marketspeak?” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Software-Defined Everything: Truth or Marketspeak?” Date/time:May 14, […]

10 Best Practices for Spring Cleaning Your Data Center by Chris Preimesberger Rationalize Your Apps Insane amounts of money are spent on outdated or unused apps in the enterprise, so it’s time to understand what your organization is really using, and then get rid of the rest. On average, organizations have more than $400 of […]

One of the most valuable aspects of EMC World every year is that it is way more than what most Wall Street investors seem to think: that EMC and its lavish event are just about data storage. EMC World 2014, which concluded May 8 in Las Vegas, is a “three-fer” in that attendees not only […]

A major intellectual property lawsuit involving IT giants Oracle and Google is in the process of determining the legal definitions of “creative” and “utilitarian” in software development. A three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on May 9 overturned a 2012 circuit court decision, ruling that Oracle is entitled to copyright protection over application […]

As Facebook looks around the world to build new data centers in order to handle the demands of its 1.23 billion (and still growing) users and hundreds of thousands of advertising clients, it’s identifying more partners to help out. Data center infrastructure provider Emerson Network Power revealed May 8 that it is working with Facebook […]

A new data center research report released May 7 on the state of big data analytics shows that there are no stand-alone market leaders as yet, and as such the sector is clearly a wide-open opportunity for new and established IT vendors alike. The study, conducted by eWEEK’s publisher, QuinStreet Inc., found that not only is […]

LAS VEGAS — EMC’s Information Intelligence Group, which used to be Documentum, came out with two new products May 6 at EMC World 2014: its first industry-specific public cloud software as a service, Supplier Exchange, and a “smart” archiver called InfoArchive. Supplier Exchange improves older Documentum-based private-cloud collaboration software to enable similar connections with partners […]