Chris Preimesberger

With so many new types of IT system and Website attacks popping up all the time, new methods of fighting the nasty things off are necessarily coming to the fore. This includes cloud-based security services. Support.com, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of cloud-based technology services and software, has released a new cloud-based service, SUPERAntiSpyware (SAS) […]

Box added new back-end functionality to its cloud-service platforms on May 9 by acquiring little-known HTML5 developer tool provider Crocodoc and all seven of its employees for financial terms that were undisclosed. Crocodoc’s cloud-based service converts Microsoft Office and PDF documents into HTML5 code for viewing in browsers. “You probably haven’t heard of us directly, […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—SAP has been making a lot of news lately, and it’s all in the database and cloud IT sectors. For a company that built its global reputation with on-premises, server-bound enterprise applications, this is a major direction change that has made SAP relevant again in new ways. In December 2010, SAP changed the […]

Data Governance: 10 Steps to Establishing Effective Policies By Chris Preimesberger Recognizing Data Governance-Related Critical Business Issues Data governance is most commonly associated with regulatory compliance. But data quality and comprehension exist at the heart of data governance. The ability to more completely use rapidly growing volumes of enterprise data, as a competitive advantage, is […]

Sprint may be a prime candidate for a buyout or merger on the business front, but that distraction isn’t affecting its new-product research and development folks. The Overland Park, Kan.-based telecom on May 6 came out with Sprint CloudCompute, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) package that integrates its partner CSC’s virtualized, utility-based cloud computing IT with Sprint’s […]

While one Texas-based IT company, Dell, is currently wrapping up the painstaking process of moving from being a publicly held to a privately held corporation, another—BMC Software—has pulled it off. The Houston-based software company, which has been lagging in sales growth in a market that includes players such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and CA, agreed May […]

Two-Factor Authentication: Myths Versus Reality by Chris Preimesberger Myth No. 1 Two-factor authentication will prevent your site and users from ever being breached. Reality Versus Myth No. 1 To offer two-factor authentication, websites must issue tokens or embed cryptographic keys in users’ devices. Using two-factor authentication requires user participation as well, making it slower and […]

STANFORD, Calif.—Here at eWEEK, we know quite well that our readers want to know the important news about what has happened, as well as what’s happening today. We also know that they want to know what’s going to happen in the future—as far as our informed sources can project. So here’s a projection of sorts […]

If it’s possible to reimagine enterprise storage, newcomer Exablox believes it is doing exactly that. By this is meant a storage system so simple that all one has to do is plug in the power cord and a network cable, and off it goes. Exablox, a promising VC-backed startup that launched its first product April […]

On Wednesday, May 8 at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its fifth Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Defining, Deploying and Defending Software-Defined Networks.” It will be moderated by yours truly, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Defining, Deploying and Defending Software-Defined Networks.”Date/time: […]

Facebook reported its second-best fiscal quarter as a public company on May 1, and even though its revenue tailed off a bit from the previous quarter, the company’s Q1 2013 earnings were generally on target with Wall Street projections. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social network brought in $1.458 billion in the first three months of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—SAS, the world’s largest independent business intelligence provider, updated its frontline analytics engine April 29 with a new version that can be deployed in several ways: in public or private clouds, hosted by SAS or via on-premise software.The announcement of SAS Business Analytics 9.4, the foundation for all SAS products,was made at the podium […]