Chris Preimesberger

Behave Like You’re in Public People generally like privacy, and hiding behind a laptop helps us forget that we’re surrounded by strangers. However, it’s important to remember that you’re sharing an Internet connection with other people. Think of it as though you are making a phone call in public. If you wouldn’t say something personal […]

Lenovo continues to expand its market reach beyond making laptop PCs.Last September the Chinese IT hardware maker ventured into the software world for the first time by acquiring U.S.-based Stoneware, which makes a cloud network hosting environment for enterprises—most of which are in the education and government sectors.On Jan. 3, the world’s No. 1-selling PC […]

Hey, data storage-type folks! Storage Station has come out of hibernation and is reborn for 2013! A lot has been happening on the storage front, as has been happening at eWEEK all these months, and we’re ready to get back into the race and get cracking on all this news. eWEEK has undergone some major […]

Hewlett-Packard, which revealed Jan. 2 that it is again considering trimming businesses that aren’t bringing in positive cash flow, is still fighting a nightmarish battle with the founder and former CEO of its most expensive recent acquisition, Autonomy. Until the iconic IT company resolves this problem—either by wrestling with Autonomy to make the division profitable, […]

Imation, known for its digital tape, compact disc, portable solid-state drive products for consumers and small businesses, made a move Jan. 2 to bolster its midrange enterprise storage catalog by acquiring network-attached storage system maker Nexsan. The $120 million cash-and-stock transaction included $105 million in cash and 3,319,324 Imation common shares, currently worth about $15 […]

Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrant for the public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) sector clearly shows that IT service providers are moving into a space currently owned by pure-play cloud and data center service providers. This trend is sure to ramp up this coming year. As an option for enterprises considering cloud services, IT […]

Buyer Choice, Open Standards Drive Down Costs Buyer choice and open standards keep driving down costs. Selecting IT solutions and technology partners that accommodate open standards and choice in IT decisions is imperative to develop a flexible infrastructure that can meet unique workload demands and budgetary guidelines. Once you buy into a proprietary system that […]

It’s a general mandate that data center managers and IT administrators at all levels need to keep power bills as low as possible. Many new-generation data centers are models of 21st century efficiency, but even effectively run systems can always use some advice on how to do things even better. Minimizing power usage sets into […]

Red Hat on Dec. 20 joined Oracle and Dell to announce holiday-season acquisitions of cloud-management software providers. Cary, N.C.-based Red Hat, the world’s highest-revenue commercial open-source software company, revealed that it is buying ManageIQ, a provider of enterprise cloud management and automation software, for about $104 million in cash. Earlier this week, Dell bought cloud […]

Oracle has made no secret that it is at war with Salesforce.com in the cloud-based sales and marketing services sector. On Dec. 20 the huge all-purpose IT company re-emphasized this strategy by acquiring Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ), a provider of cloud-based marketing automation and revenue performance management software. When the deal is completed, Oracle will own […]

Social Media: Future of Customer Marketing The onset of new social media technologies has fundamentally changed the way people communicate and network with other people. The future of customer marketing will be shaped by combining traditional customer analytics with insights from the emerging social media analytics discipline to meet enterprise strategic goals. What is a […]

Apple doesn’t get hit with a lot of intellectual property-type setbacks, but it had to absorb a major one Dec. 19 when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invalidated the device maker’s treasured “pinch-to-zoom” patent. The technology enables users of Apple smartphones and tablets to enlarge an image by touching two fingers on the screen […]