Chris Preimesberger

EVault, Seagate’s cloud-based backup service, is offering a compelling incentive for new potential customers: 100 free gigabytes of capacity for zero cost. This is a perfect example of the stiff competition in this corner of the IT storage world: Plenty of services from which to choose — plus unlimited capacity available — equals unusual bargains […]

On Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST, @eWEEKnews will host its second Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Collaboration in the Cloud: Empowering Employees.” It will be moderated by yours truly, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Collaboration in the Cloud: Empowering Employees”Date/time: Feb. 13, […]

Newcomer Bitcasa, which positions itself as a provider of “infinite” amounts of secure online storage, on Feb. 5 exited its beta phase and launched a new home and SMB service that can handle storage from any type of host: iOS, Android, Mac desktop, Windows Desktop, Windows RT and the Web. For a flat-rate $10 per […]

Conduct a Comprehensive Risk Analysis Analyzing potential risks from human errors will better prepare you to act should they occur. Proactively Address Weaknesses Educate and train employees about common threats, aggressor tactics and expectations when it comes to following corporate policies and procedures. This must be done in tandem with the deployment of security tools […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Samsung, which started out in 1938 as Samsung Sanghoe selling groceries—even making and marketing its own noodles—before diversifying and moving into the TV business in 1965, hasn’t become one of the world’s largest consumer IT device makers by not doing things the right way. Although it hasn’t been known for inventing […]

Hadoop Will Be Used More in Real-Time Applications Hadoop’s capabilities now make it possible to stream data into the cluster and analyze it in an interactive fashion—both in real time. Hadoop was purpose-built for cost-effective analysis of data sets as enormous as the World Wide Web. Revenue-Generating Uses Overtaking Cost-Saving Applications Hadoop has always been […]

First, it was servers connecting PCs to create the Internet. Then servers began being clustered and corralled to enable application-service providers, grid systems and clouds to connect with personal devices. Now, clouds themselves are interacting with each other. Having seen this progression coming for a long time, networking giant Cisco Systems on Feb. 5 introduced […]

Oracle beefed up its networking services division Feb. 4 by acquiring Acme Packet for about $1.7 billion in cash. Acme Packet’s data center hardware products speed up voice, video and data delivery across networks. Specifically, the Bedford, Mass.-based company produces session border controllers (SBCs), multiservice security gateways (MSGs) and session routing proxies (SRPs). Oracle is […]

Rackspace, co-developer of the OpenStack cloud platform along with NASA, has created a more direct path for large, full-service IT providers to deploy the popular open-source-based software in large-scale private cloud projects. Rackspace on Feb. 1 released three new blueprints — called Private Cloud Open Reference Architectures — to fuel the initiative, which is designed […]

Oracle, beset by pressures to mitigate holes in Java 7 Update 13 that have been abused by hackers, expedited a patch set scheduled for later this month and released a whopping 50 fixes to licensees on Feb. 1. A critical Java update was originally scheduled for Feb. 19, but because at least one of the […]

Explaining How to Approach the Steves Actors Josh Gad (left) and Ashton Kutcher, who portray Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, respectively, in the upcoming biopic “Jobs” (coming out April 19) explain to the Macworld audience how they researched and prepared to perform their parts and the challenges they faced in understanding the personalities of the […]

FICTION: Automated DR Cannot Be Tailored to Your Environment IT administrators think that automated DR systems cannot handle different types of hardware, software and virtual servers in use in data centers. IT administrators think that automated DR lacks the flexibility to recover any available system, physical or virtual. FACT: Automated DR Can Handle Recovery in […]