Chris Preimesberger

This is Part II of an interview eWEEK conducted with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on Oct. 23 during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Mark Hurd is tasked with many things, but persuading a lot of old-line institutional-IT customers to move as much of their IT infrastructure as possible into a […]

As is its convention each year at this time, IT industry researcher and analyst Gartner has highlighted the key technologies and trends for which IT infrastructure and operations decision-makers must prepare in order to fully support new-gen digital infrastructure in 2019. Gartner analysts on Dec. 4 presented these findings during the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations […]

eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has acquired a key connective technology for how enterprises deploy artificial intelligence and big data analytics in their applications. The company announced an agreement Nov. 27 to purchase BlueData, which will help expand HPE’s product lineup in the fast-growing AI and analytics software markets. Terms of the transaction were not made available; it […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Traffic on the internet continues to grow at massive scale. Okay, that one’s quite familiar. But I bet you haven’t heard this one: Cisco Systems says that within four years, more IP traffic will cross global networks than in all prior years combined, and that more traffic […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise introduced its composable infrastructure concept three years ago at the Discover 2015 show in London. On that Dec. 1, the company unveiled its Synergy platform, which is based on an infrastructure architecture designed to ensure that the exact amount of compute resources—from processing power and storage to network fabric and virtualization—can be rapidly […]

Here at eWEEK, we report about data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning quite a lot, because it seems like every new enterprise application that comes to the fore is using one of those ingredients to make it more valuable. This is a direct result of the convergence of key IT factors eWEEK has observed […]

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 […]

Application delivery controllers (ADCs) have been integral in managing traffic and helping organizations avoid outages. In fact, they’ve been around for decades as legacy hardware solutions, but now new software-based ADCs are being developed that are making the ADC even more adept at preventing outages—even on days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, where spikes […]

As artificial intelligence and machine learning offerings grow in popularity and move into production systems, enterprises are increasingly looking to utilize these technologies to automate critical business processes–from infrastructure maintenance to data management to customer services and beyond. While there can be significant, tangible value in embracing automation technologies, realizing their full potential requires more […]

Hybrid cloud management specialist HyperGrid, which enables enterprises and managed service providers to build new-gen cloud systems, on Nov. 14 launched version 6.0 of its HyperCloud platform. HyperCloud is what its mothership describes as “the next generation of the industry’s first intelligent hybrid cloud management platform.” HyperCloud 6.0 adds Amazon Web Services Lambda and Microsoft […]

On Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 72nd monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “The High/Low on No- and Low-Code Development.” It will be moderated by eWEEK Editor in Chief Chris Preimesberger. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat Nov. 14: “The High/Low on No- and Low-Code Development” […]