Chris Preimesberger

Updating Legacy IT Systems While Mitigating Risks: 10 Best Practices By Chris Preimesberger The Traditional Big Bang Data Migration Strategy One approach to modernizing legacy applications is to install a new-gen replacement and move the entire dataset from the legacy system to the new solution in one operation—often completed over a weekend or holiday break—a […]

Oracle posted a fair-to-OK earnings report March 18 for its fiscal third quarter 2014, but despite recording a modest profit increase, it narrowly missed Wall Street income expectations, sending the stock down 3 percent in after-hours trading as a result. The Redwood City, Calif.-based IT hardware and software provider posted earnings of 68 cents a […]

On Tuesday, March 18, at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST/6 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 17th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “New-Gen Storage, File-Sharing: Why Cloud Is Not Enough.’” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “New-Gen Storage, File-Sharing: Why […]

On Tuesday, March 18, at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 17th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “New-Gen Storage and File-Sharing: Why Cloud Is Not Enough.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “New-Gen Storage and […]

As the hours and days go by following the sudden and mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 somewhere in Southeast Asia, more people and organizations are joining the search party. And they are using every tool at their disposal — not the least of which big data analytics — to try and locate the […]

The U.S. government revealed March 14 that although it provides a multitude of services for its citizens, staying on as overseer of the Internet’s domain names and addresses business won’t be one of them after September 2015. The Department of Commerce, which has been the watchdog of sales and assignments of Web domains for 15 […]

On Wednesday, March 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 16th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Big Data Analytics via the Cloud: There’s Traction Everywhere.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Big Data Analytics […]

Cloud, New-Gen IT Services SMBs Are Acquiring in 2014: 10 Examples by Chris Preimesberger Affordable Tools With Simple Licensing SMB environments are complex, often made up of cobbled-together IT solutions that are overpriced and overly complicated for SMBs limited needs. But they don’t have to be; much of this complexity comes from a series of […]

We’ve heard it said that innovation generally happens all around us, often in places we never would have thought to look. That’s often true. But innovation also can happen at your own organization; in fact, you yourself can be an innovator. In order to be successful in this new-generation economy, companies need to provide environments […]

To invoke a phrase sure to be used often during the upcoming March Madness basketball tournament in the United States, Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp isn’t exactly a “slam dunk” at this point. Earlier this week, privacy advocates petitioned the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to halt the progress of the deal until Facebook makes […]

Flipboard, a popular news-reading and content-sharing application for tablet PCs that was one of the first of its type, revealed March 5 that it is acquiring Zite, an up-and-coming competitor, from CNN. CNN Money, Bloomberg and Fortune reported that the deal was worth about $60 million in stock. As part of the transaction, Palo Alto, […]

Target CIO and Executive Vice President of Technology Services Beth Jacob tendered her resignation March 5, effective immediately, as the result of the well-chronicled data breach last holiday season that impacted an estimated 110 million of the retailer’s customers. Jacob had served as Target’s CIO since 2008 and originally started with the company as an […]