Chris Preimesberger

Ever since Facebook started its social-network business in May 2007, the company has been cognizant of its own open-source roots and has made a point ever since of giving back code and tools to the open-source community as a result. In 2008, for example, the fledgling social network released most of the code that runs […]

New Big Data and Hadoop Projects: 10 Tips for Keeping on Track by Chris Preimesberger Figure Out What You’re Trying to Solve You can’t use your data if you don’t know what you want to do with it. With this understanding, you will be able to steer your company in the right direction. Figure this […]

A copyright lawsuit Oracle originally filed in 2010 against Google over alleged misuse of its Java application programming interfaces in Android OS, thought to be dead a year ago, is alive and back in the courts. Judge S. Jay Plager of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., opined in […]

On Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 12th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Predictions, Wild Guesses for IT in 2014.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Predictions, Wild Guesses for IT […]

Security Landscape in 2014: 11 Predictions From the Experts by Chris Preimesberger Wearable Tech Will Slowly Gain Adoption Wearable tech will be more of a novelty next year, but the biggest risk to be aware of is Near-Field Communication (NFC) hacking, or threats within a small proximity. As wearable tech gear communicates with other nearby […]

2014 stands to be a pivotal year in the history of the world’s largest software maker. Not only will Microsoft be nearing the end of its fourth decade in business, but it will be commandeered by only its third CEO and the first since the soon-to-be-retired Steve Ballmer took over from Bill Gates on Jan. […]

Cloud Storage in 2014: 10 Bold Predictions by Chris Preimesberger Smaller Providers Will Need to Re-establish Themselves The air is getting thin for smaller cloud providers, particularly living in the shadow of Nirvanix. New entrants will be limited to a few larger, familiar names, while larger established providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.) continue to thrive. […]

Financially troubled solid-state storage maker OCZ Technology confirmed Dec. 2 that it is selling its assets to Toshiba for $35 million after announcing last week that it would file for bankruptcy. Toshiba, the original developer of NAND and NOR flash back in the late 1980s, said it will be incorporating OCZ’s client base and enterprise […]

The sanctioning of IT industry standards often can move slower than play-by-mail chess, but when they finally happen, they usually result in a profound leap forward for everybody involved. In the next year or two, the Fibre Channel storage networking world—a notoriously slow-moving sector but one with products found in nearly all large enterprise data […]

Unstructured Data Troves: 10 Points for Taking Control of Them By Chris Preimesberger Unstructured Data Refers to More Information Than You Think The term unstructured data describes information that is not organized into a well-defined schema. Nearly all that lives outside relational databases is unstructured and even includes images, videos and log files produced by […]

Apple has long provided devices and software people use for social networking, but now it’s moving into the business of analyzing what all that chattery content entails. The company on Dec. 2 said it acquired San Francisco-based social media analytics provider Topsy Labs for about $200 million, according to sources cited by The Wall Street […]

Migrating Critical Applications to Virtual Servers: 10 Best Practices By Chris Preimesberger Determine Changing OS or App Licensing Provisions Depending on where you are migrating your application, you may need to reassess the licensing requirements for both your operating system and your application. This will apply when you are migrating the entire stack, the OS […]