Chris Preimesberger

Hardly a week went by in 2018 without news of a major data leak or security breach. Ransomware and phishing were invasive, state-run hackers were working around the clock, passwords were leaking, new sophisticated malware attacks were spreading, data was breached and governments around the world once again spurned privacy rules—not to mention the concerted […]

Like we humans, every application, every text message, every email, every photo—everything that’s digital—needs a home. Without secure data storage, the digital and online worlds simply cannot exist. In all enterprise verticals, secure-yet-accessible data storage is crucial for employees, contractors, business partners, channel partners and a whole ecosystem of vendors. This is all about providing […]

It only seems as though 5G has been with us for a lot of years. This is because so many IT folks have been talking about it for that long and planning for how to use it once it becomes available on a widespread basis–which should be in 2019 and 2020. Trouble is, 4G is […]

Recent incidents at Salesforce, Facebook, Google+—not to mention the Equifax breach and the Cambridge Analytica scandal that plagued Facebook—point directly to the unsettling reality that API security is often an afterthought for enterprises. Such incidents serve as a major wake-up call for enterprise security teams everywhere. An application program interface (API) is code that allows […]

Here is the latest article in the eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

As it has for the last four years or so, the market for Internet of things hardware, software and services continues to be one of the major greenfields for investment in the information technology world. Along with edge computing, “AI everywhere” and robotics process automation, the IoT also comprises one of the broadest areas of […]

As we head into 2019, the increased pervasiveness of artificial intelligence in applications paired with customers’ expectations for instant digital transactions is prompting organizations to reimagine how they will structure processes, operations  and personnel to deliver excellent customer experiences. An important undertaking for enterprises is to examine how business leaders should approach managing a hybrid […]

As the nascent robotics process automation (RPA) market continued to undergo rapid growth in 2018, there was a shift in focus from proofs-of-concept and so-called “quick wins” to enterprise scale automation. This focus shift is marked by several key themes, which collectively create momentum toward a concept known as intelligent automation–or building intelligence into automation. […]

Basically everything in IT these days revolves around managing waves of data coming in from multiple outside sources: mobile devices, ecommerce sites, data streams for analytics, enterprise ecosystems, sales/marketing partnerships and so on. Thus, the function of data management is constantly evolving to handle the influx of files, logs, images and everything else. What’s relevant […]

The institution of the General Data Privacy Regulation by the European Union on May 25, 2018 was the first major step in establishing a worldwide standard for keeping personal data private for users of IT–and that means just about everybody. It also includes the right to be forgotten, should a user decide to completely vacate […]

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Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]