Chris Preimesberger

In the daily news, we see disasters all too frequently: hurricanes, fires, floods, earthquakes, transportation accidents … it’s a sad and lengthy list. Data centers and their IT systems also face disasters on occasion, whether due to a system malfunction, a nasty hacker, a physical disaster or human error. All these things need to be […]

Dallas-based Evoque Data Center Solutions, the company that sprung up to take over AT&T’s data centers when that rather large telecommunications company made the strategic decision to focus on its main businesses, made some news Jan. 25. It has partnered with mobility and fiber connectivity provider ExteNet, which will integrate its line of cloud and […]

The global business community quickly reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking decisive action to protect the safety and well-being of their employees by instituting remote work policies that allowed companies to continue operations. Thankfully, communications and collaboration tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Slack, among others, kept employees engaged and on track. The demand […]

The global COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped almost every facet of our lives, including how and where we work. Enterprises across the world adopted a work-from-home strategy that triggered a massive surge of IT investment to equip workers with the computers, laptops and smartphones they required to be productive.  At some point, once this public health […]

As the growing COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more and more companies into cloud services and remote collaboration applications they hadn’t planned to encounter quite this soon, the enterprise managed services market has had to react in a big way. The sector, already splintered in the last several years as the IT business itself has grown […]

Today: Armis Security (enterprise-class device security software) Company description: Armis is an agentless, enterprise-class device security platform, designed to protect organizations from cyberthreats created by the onslaught of unmanaged and IoT devices. The company claims that Fortune 1000 companies trust its real-time and continuous protection to see and control all managed, unmanaged, un-agentable and IoT devices–from […]

eWEEK last interviewed Ayman Sayed in 2018, when he was Chief Product Officer at CA Technologies. Previous to that, he ran Cisco Systems’ biggest businesses for a span of 17 years. He’s now been CEO of BMC Software since 2019 and is a man who’s seen a complete evolution in the IT business over a […]

All the business and personal data we use on a daily basis is in a database management system or a storage array somewhere in the world. These can range from a thumb drive or smartphone to a data center array all the way to an unlimited cloud storage system. How does one go about determining […]

When COVID-19 forced organizations to scatter from their offices in March 2020, conventional wisdom said it would be a short-term disruption lasting weeks, perhaps a couple of months. As sometimes happens, the conventional wisdom was wrong. We’re now many months into a massive remote work experiment. It’s clear the old way of doing things—with most […]

On Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 94th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “What’s Up in Next-Gen Security.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “What’s Up in Next-Gen Security” Date/time: Tuesday, Jan. 12, 11 a.m. […]

The rapid move since last March to remote workforces has accelerated changes for many businesses. Digital transformations, shifts in business models, and growth strategies must happen on condensed timelines under foreign conditions. To facilitate these sudden changes, companies have adopted new collaboration and communication tools. Even for organizations that have been fully distributed since inception, […]

Search is critical to business success. If this wasn’t apparent before 2020, it’s certainly clear now. Generally, connected users spent more time than ever online in 2020 searching for products, answers, solutions and information. Consumers, spoiled by the likes of Google and Amazon, expect to quickly and easily find relevant products and information. Businesses must […]