Chris Preimesberger

A year and a half before world records will be shattered at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Samsung has smashed a record of its own in the world of data storage. The huge South Korean IT conglomerate announced Jan. 29 that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) […]

Jamf, the unusually named software provider that 17 years ago saw the high business potential for management of Apple devices in the workplace, has taken a major step forward in expanding its business. The Minneapolis-based company, born in 2002 from the desire to create a better technology management solution for about 400 Mac PCs on […]

As surprising as it sounds, Amazon Web Services, which has offered cloud storage since 2006, hasn’t provided a fully managed backup service—until now. The Seattle-based mega-company has launched AWS Backup, an automated, centralized backup service that enables businesses to back up their data across the AWS network and on-premises more efficiently. AWS Backup gives enterprises […]

Malware blossomed in several different directions in the past 12 months, and the year ahead looks like it will be a full-fledged follow-on. According to security firm Malwarebytes, 2018 came in like a lion and out like—well, a different lion. It’s fair to say that, despite a sleepy second quarter, this past year was action-packed […]

Talk about autonomous cars and the power of the IoT is expected to increase in intensity in 2019 as both enterprises and consumers watch the devices powered at the edge come alive. However, despite how many IoT devices are unleashed, their success hinges on one critical component: the speed of data processing. There is a […]

It’s clear that the customers-in-common of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Datera have spoken: They wanted to see these two relatively disparate companies—one pretty new to the world, the other a respected IT pioneer—working together and developing faster and more efficient solutions for their storage systems. So, as all successful companies do, they listened and learned. As […]

Company Name: Pivot3 (hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions) Company description: Pivot3 is a privately-held company led by CEO Ron Nash. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Pivot3 has offices in Houston, Boulder, Dubai, Mexico City and throughout the UK and APAC regions. It has more than 2,600 customers in 63 countries and over 20,000 deployments in education, […]

Oracle is throwing down a lot of dollars for a list of real estate investments in 2019 to enable its aggressive cloud strategy. The database and cloud services provider on Jan. 17 revealed exclusively to eWEEK the opening of a Toronto data center to support regional customer demand for Oracle’s public cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. […]

Company Name: ProtectWise, Inc. Company description: ProtectWise provides cloud-delivered network detection and response (NDR). Organizations can achieve defense in depth via advanced analytics in enterprise, cloud and industrial environments with real-time and retrospective detections. Full-fidelity packet captures, indexed and retained indefinitely, create a perfect, rapidly searchable network memory. By unifying detections and forensics in an […]

Since the development of application delivery controllers (ADCs) in the early 2000s, demand for these solutions has steadily grown. In 2015, a study by Orbis Research found that at the time, the global ADC market was about $4 billion; it is expected to reach $9.8 billion by 2022. But this increase in demand was not […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

While businesses certainly value new customers, even more valuable are loyal customers who continue doing business with the company. One way to keep them coming back is to build flawless customer experiences across each support channel—from text and web chat to email and voice. Consumers have always looked for the most efficient path to connect […]