Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its ninth Tweetchat event. The topic will be “How Will The Internet of Things Change Us?” It will be moderated by yours truly, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “How Will The Internet […]

New-generation data center infrastructure management is all about automation, and the more of it, the merrier. Emerson Network Power and its software division, Avocent, know all about this and have continued to develop their home-grown platform, Trellis, a hardware and software package that one simply plugs in, connects automatically to all the necessary nodes and […]

Intel’s Low-Power Atom Chip Making Way Into Data Centers by Chris Preimesberger Meet Mr. Atom C2000 The low-power (2.4GHz) Atom C2000 shows its simple lines in this illustration. Intel said the new 22-nanometer C2000 Avoton chips, based on the new Silvermont microarchitecture, will offer as much as seven times the performance and six times the […]

Thanks to increasing price competitiveness among the sector’s vendors and pressure from the NAND flash business, hard disk storage market revenues have reached a leveling-off period—at least for the time being.This is more evidence of the growing influence of solid-state storage in enterprise IT systems. Go here for a recent eWEEK analysis of this market.IDC, […]

EMC, reminding the IT world that it is indeed a global corporation, eschewed the standard New York/San Francisco/Las Vegas launch scenarios and staged a media event in Milan, Italy, Sept. 4 to introduce several new products, including a new enterprise cloud storage service and refreshes of its VNX storage arrays. The company’s Project Nile elastic […]

It’s really not a surprise to IT people in the know that solid-state NAND flash-based storage will soon displace spinning disk drives as the standard in the enterprise data storage industry. It might be a surprise, however, that this changeover is happening as fast as it is, because NAND flash always has represented a higher […]

Skyera, an upstart all-NAND flash storage provider, has been making news lately. A year ago, the San Jose, Calif.-based storage hardware and software maker came out with a 1U skyHawk model that sported a whopping (at the time) 44TB all-flash capacity. This year, at the recently completed Flash Memory Summit, Skyera launched its SkyEagle series […]

Big data analytics systems are most often connected with enterprise business, but the types of work they do also can be directly applied into a number of consumer markets. Sports, fans with PCs—mobile and otherwise—and big data are all pretty much made for each other. This is especially true when it comes to fantasy sports, […]

The significance of secure data sharing could not be more evident within the overall IT industry. Security remains the single most important question mark that still causes doubt about cloud computing, especially in regulated verticals such as the financial, government and science sectors. For an increasing number of enterprises, private clouds and new-generation security are […]

Salesforce turned in an impressive earnings report to the Securities and Exchange Commision on Aug. 29, revealing strong Q2 2013 results and full-year estimates that are flush with Wall Street projections. The cloud-based services provider reported revenue at $957 million, compared to $938.81 million from the same quarter a year ago. Sales were up a […]

SAN FRANCISCO–As the larger IT companies become less specialized and more all-purpose in nature, collateral damage to industry partners is becoming a much more common–and serious–business issue. A prime example a few years ago involved storage giant EMC and PC/server maker Dell. Dell, which didn’t focus on storage early in its existence, was happy to […]

VMworld 2013 Draws Record Crowd for Annual Virtualization Show by Chris Preimesberger Facing the International Media VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (left) and President and Chief Operating Officer Carl Eschenbach address questions from the press Aug. 27 following the VMworld 2013 Day 2 general session, which focused mostly on demonstrations of the new NSX software platform. […]