Chris Preimesberger

SAP added new functionality to its collection of cloud-based business services March 26 when it acquired privately held Fieldglass, provider of a service that enables enterprises to keep track of procuring and managing contingent labor and services. Terms of the deal were not released by Frankfurt-based SAP, but the company did say it expected the […]

Amazon.com, as if it has nothing else to do these days, reportedly is about to start up its own cloud-based television station. The dominating Web services and retail sales provider, seeing video-streaming providers such as Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV and Google’s Play and YouTube gaining more and more control of the sector, is readying its […]

Amazon Web Services, far and away the market leader in providing hosted applications, Web services and development environments in the cloud, is finally catching up in another part of the IT world: virtual desktop implementations. It’s a strange fact that AWS, so far ahead of the curve in hosted cloud services that most other competitors […]

Google has been getting a load of press attention about the pricing challenge it has leveled against the cloud services industry, especially versus the world’s largest cloud services provider, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft. eWEEK.com colleague and respected industry analyst, Eric Lundquist, discussed this cogently here in eWEEK. When asked if Google and Amazon were […]

Facebook on March 25 made a surprise pivot, moving into the virtual reality headset business by buying Oculus VR for about $1.9 billion in cash and common stock. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social network agreed to pay $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of the company’s stock. At the March 25 closing price […]

How CIOs Can Make IT Workplaces More Productive: 11 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Create a Culture That Limits Interruptions The AtTask human resources industry survey indicated that the No. 1 reason for late work is too many interruptions. Interruptions are often a corporate cultural issue, but they can be managed with process. To avoid […]

Few red flags wave more prominently above a corporation than when two things happen: a) earnings and stock prices go south; and b) CEOs seem to be coming and going a little too quickly. Hewlett-Packard and Yahoo famously have suffered both these maladies. Symantec, the world’s largest security software provider, has now stumbled into those […]

Newcomer Bitrix24 has summoned up a bit of gumption in declaring March 21 that it is taking on such established storage opponents as Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive with its new social network-like collaboration service. The 3-year-old cloud CRM company has released a new enterprise desktop app that connects directly to Bitrix24’s online […]

Protecting Enterprises From Global Online Fraud: Nine Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Fake Accounts and the Black Market Sales of fake Internet accounts continue to increase. These are accounts created in bulk using phony information (name, email, address, etc.) simply for the purpose of abusing good users online. Just about any type of fake account […]

If we at eWEEK aren’t writing about our usual-suspect IT topics—data security and privacy, application development, big data analytics, the cloud, data centers or mobile devices—we’re examining the coming Internet of things. This is the next huge IT market, we’re told, and we’re not arguing that point. However, in reality the IoT isn’t “coming”—it’s already […]

To say that messaging apps are all the rage in mergers, acquisitions and venture capital interest at this time would be a massive understatement. Last November, Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook. Undeterred, the huge social network then turned around and bought competing messenger WhatsApp for $19 billion on Feb. 19. […]

Cloudera, a pioneering provider of Hadoop batch and real-time analytics solutions for the enterprise, announced March 18 that it has closed a new round of financing worth $160 million, led by top-tier institutional and strategic investors. To date, six-year-old Cloudera has raised $300 million in venture funding. This latest round was led by T. Rowe […]