Chris Preimesberger

Huawei, one of China’s largest IT product and service providers and a company that dearly wants to make larger inroads into the U.S. markets, revealed April 8 that it has signed a new strategic partnership with Intel, the world’s largest processor maker. Under terms of this agreement, both companies will augment their existing collaboration in […]

Xerox, which has long wanted to be known as a technology company rather than simply an office copier maker, on April 8 expanded its legal services division by acquiring New York City-based e-discovery specialist Smart Data. Terms of the deal were not released. Xerox already had a relationship with five-year-old Smart Data, which provides hosted […]

To SAN or Not to SAN: 10 Questions to Ask Before You Commit by Chris Preimesberger How Much Does SAN Hardware Cost? Traditional SAN-based clusters require a significant investment in both hardware and ongoing maintenance. More hardware also means more ongoing maintenance, power, cooling and rack space. Can I Create a Cluster in the Cloud? […]

A cloud-based backup service for cloud-based data backup: That describes Backupify in a proverbial nutshell. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company has announced a group of new applications it now supports, including popular online storage options Box and Dropbox. Others include Netsuite, GitHub, Zendesk, Concur (an online travel expenses application), JIRA, Asana, Egnyte, Office 365 and Basecamp. […]

10 Innovative IT Startups Showcase Wares at DEMO 2014 by Chris Preimesberger Apakau, San Francisco According to co-founder Fadel Darwish, Apakau is like “Akamai for networks.” Whether used on a desktop or mobile device, the startup’s patent-pending Xylem data delivery network (DDN) for enterprises ensures low real-world data latency with consistency on every continent. The […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—In the open-source IT world, it’s not unusual for a commercial enterprise to want to “own,” so to speak, a particular piece of software or a software platform that has been developed by the community and set free for the world to use. In actuality, a company can never “own” something like the […]

On Wednesday, April 9, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 18th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Building or Rebuilding a Company on Cloud Services.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Building or Rebuilding a […]

Running Enterprises on Mobile Devices: Key Use Cases, Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Use Case: GSA Public Building Service The landlord for the civilian federal government uses the GSA Real Estate Exchange (G-REX) application to accelerate property-leasing decisions in the field and responses to federal policy changes in the back office. Use Case: State of […]

Amazon joined the crowded television set-top-box market April 2 when it introduced Fire TV, a video-streaming device that will compete with established Internet-connected hardware makers Apple (Apple TV), Roku, Xbox One and several others. Fire TV will cost $99 for the set-top unit. For video-game players, a customized controller is available as an accessory for […]

Delphix, which virtualizes databases, data warehouses and data streams and takes away magnitudes of complexity in running data centers, has done what few companies ever are able to accomplish: create an entirely new market. Nobody else yet has come into the data virtualization space to make it an actual “market.” Delphix stands alone at this […]

The so-called Internet of things, or IoT for short, is officially a trend. We know this because it now has its own industry consortium. A group of household-name industrial giants that include Intel, IBM, AT&T, Cisco Systems and General Electric — along with the U.S. government — revealed March 26 that they are going to […]

When IBM realized it needed to go outside to acquire a cloud services-provisioning company a couple of years ago and eventually settled in June 2013 on a lesser-known outfit in Dallas called SoftLayer, the move surprised some IT industry watchers. After all, multinational IBM was investing a reported $2 billion into a smaller cloud-services provider—whose […]