Chris Preimesberger

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eWEEK has always covered innovation in the IT business; we’ve just never named it and put it all into one section. Starting March 12, we are adding a new horizontal look—that is, across all sectors of IT—at this topic. In this section, you’ll find stories about new ways software and hardware are helping us get […]

Health Care: Video Cameras, Image Processing to Monitor Patient’s Vital Signs It is very important to continuously monitor the heart rate of a premature infant. But the current methods for capturing that data are very intrusive. They rely on placing electrodes on an infant’s paper-thin skin or attaching sensors to a tiny finger or earlobe. […]

On Wednesday, March 13 at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT, @eWEEKnews will host its third Tweetchat event. The topic will be “BYOD and the Future of Work.” It will be moderated by yours truly, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “”BYOD and the Future of Work.”Date/time: March 13 […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.—Facebook is taking its most-utilized feature, News Feed, into the future by invoking newspaper- and magazine-style layouts of the past. The social network on March 7 introduced several changes in its news app that include a more sophisticated layout, an option to separate items into specific-interest feeds, and a more consistent look and […]

Competition is getting fierce in the in-memory database business, with companies such as SAP, Oracle, ScaleOut, Birst, SAS, Terracotta and Sweden’s Starcounter all coming out with new products in the last 12 months. Open source-based Terracotta made news March 4 by launching an updated version of its flagship BigMemory data management engine and introducing a […]

The Cloud Is Making Unified IT Management a DCIM Imperative Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is evolving facilities management to include the data center’s IT infrastructure, thanks to the rise of private and public cloud technologies and virtualization. By giving IT professionals a holistic, real-time view of the entire IT infrastructure, DCIM can help align […]

For years, EMC had to partner with hard-disk-type server makers—Dell is one key example—if it wanted to optimally configure its storage arrays natively into a system project. Although it’s still working with partners on those old-school but still-strategic hard-disk-drive (HDD) integrations, EMC now has its own in-house NAND flash server maker to handle new-generation data […]

Memory-based storage systems maker Violin Memory said March 4 that it is partnering with NAND flash inventor Toshiba to share intellectual property and produce new PCIe cards for servers. In return for being a premier supplier of NAND flash to Violin — guaranteeing delivery in case of product shortages — Toshiba will have IP access […]

Salesforce.com had plenty of good news to tell the markets Feb. 28 when it reported its fourth-quarter and fiscal-year earnings numbers and became a $3 billion company. The giant cloud-service provider revealed that sales for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter reached $834.68 million, up from $631.91 million a year earlier. The 32 percent jump is […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel’s McAfee security subsidiary has acquired advanced functionality designed to identify sophisticated, hard-to-detect malware than eludes most conventional securityware. The company said Feb. 26 at the RSA Security Conference that it has acquired the ValidEdge “sandboxing” technology from LynuxWorks to augment its anti-malware portfolio. This approach identifies a suspected intruder, isolates suspected […]

Box, which like most other cloud storage providers is continuing to assuage users and potential users that its storage and collaboration service is secure enough for business use, has upgraded to include new enterprise-grade security functionality.Box says it now protects data throughout its life cycle, rather than simply while it is at rest in the […]