Chris Preimesberger

Dell filled a need in its cloud services lineup Dec. 18 when it agreed to acquire Credant Technologies, a provider of data protection software that manages and secures data sent from endpoints to servers, storage or cloud systems. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Credant’s IT will be used to improve the manageability […]

The Shift to Touch-Centric Mobile Computing Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to the Windows operating system in more than a decade, takes its user-interface design concepts in part from Windows Phone. The tiled interface, full-screen view and emphasis on the applications themselves as opposed to the desktop view are aimed directly at the mobile […]

Facebook’s popular online Photoshop-like sharing app, Instagram, released updated terms of service on Dec. 17 that said in a 5,160-word statement that the service might use subscribers’ photos in advertising without the user’s consent and any sort of compensation. Believing that Instagram and Facebook were changing the rules without user input, the backlash from users […]

Lost in the Rinse Cycle A woman placed her external hard drive in a dirty laundry basket and carried it downstairs. The family cat strategically placed itself on the laundry, which obscured the view of the drive from the woman’s boyfriend, who shooed away the cat and quickly threw the clothes in the washing machine. […]

Oracle, not one to be left behind in any data center trend, took a couple of steps forward Dec. 17 as a big data hardware and software supplier by unveiling a new Cloudera-powered big data appliance and some new data center connectors to go with it. Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 is the company’s latest […]

Myth #1: We’ll See a Performance Hit It’s true that encryption has a cost, but there are many additional factors that affect total system performance. As long as encryption is implemented correctly, overhead can be minimal. Further, if you deploy virtualization on systems with commodity processors, the cost of extra CPU, especially in the cloud, […]

An unusually named new company called Kaazing and the more well-known Tibco are waging a war on data-movement latency. Even a tiny bit of latency in real-time enterprise applications can make a big difference to a business. For enterprises that rely on live data feeds, setting up the necessary security protections creates a time lag […]

eWEEK has written often about “control of the data” as being IT’s biggest challenge as enterprises roll into the new year awash with huge data stores to process, protect and secure. The reasons for this deluge are the familiar ones: more Internet data in general, a preponderance of higher-quality video and graphics, more mobile devices […]

Mobile Cloud Computing Goes Mainstream In 2013, businesses will be hearing about the huge potential of the mobile cloud as smartphones, tablets and the cloud converge to grant workers greater flexibility. Juniper Research in a study found that the number of mobile cloud subscribers is expected to grow rapidly in the next years. The cloud-based […]

Iron Mountain, which has been quiet news-wise since it sold its digital storage businesses for $380 million to Autonomy 18 months ago, got back into that exact business Dec. 10 by acquiring three regional-size storage-related companies. The venerable Boston-based company acquired data protection firms IG2 Data Security in Chicago, DATAPROS Storage and Staffing in Phoenix […]

Copyright violation litigation, especially involving IT companies with all of their technical and semi-technical legal definitions, brand positioning and additional technobabble, always seem to take protracted amounts of time and effort just to get all the niggling details into the record.With a federal court judge fervently asking the warring parties, Apple and Samsung, for “global […]

Red Hat, the world’s largest independent open-source software maker, Dec. 5 updated its virtualization and cloud platforms so that they plug into each other, scale, network and handle storage more efficiently. Strangely, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization’s previous KVM hypervisor iterations did not integrate directly with the company’s own Red Hat Storage server software. Workarounds always […]