Chris Preimesberger

In the age of the mobile enterprise, one security breach on an employee’s corporate-owned mobile device in a public network could give hackers access to proprietary company data. Although most enterprises have organization-wide security policies to thwart attacks, those policies are less effective when an organization lacks visibility into the networks that workers access on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—If you didn’t know Mark Hurd by sight, you might think he is the premier of a sovereign nation. At this week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, the sharply besuited executive was escorted wherever he went by some rather large bodyguards, and he travels—even if the destination is a block away—in a large and serious black […]

Mainframes are still the backbone of data centers in a great many use cases. Big-hunk heavy-metal equipment made by IBM (Z Series) and Unisys (which owns the old-line Burroughs and UNIVAC brands) has developed a well-earned reputation for being secure, reliable platforms; this is why most data centers around the U.S. have at least one […]

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 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle, as is the case with most high-end enterprise software developers, is turning over more and more of its applications’ decision-making capabilities to scary-smart machines to ostensibly get things done quicker and more efficiently. This all looks awfully good for businesses, but off the top, it sure appears as though human beings are being […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

GitHub held its Universe 2018 conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco Oct. 16, and it was quite a newsy event for the little gang of about 31 million developers who use the company’s 96 million repositories of open source code each day. Those numbers are correct. That’s how large and in […]

Zoom, whose cloud-based audio-visual conference app is gaining traction in its sector against such established powers as Webex and Skype, has expanded its product suite to include cloud PBX, cross-platform workflows and enterprise conference rooms. Platform enhancements announced at its recent Zoomtopia 2018 conference in San Jose include: Zoom Voice: Zoom Voice is a cloud phone […]

All of the concerns about voting accuracy in the last decade, from vote tallying to the security of our national and statewide election systems, have raised questions about our current processes and potential improvements. Perhaps it’s time the federal and state governments look to a different model to increase integrity and accuracy, one that would […]

We’ve said it here in eWEEK before and we’ll say it again: More data is being generated by more devices and their users than ever, and much of it is location-based. In fact, the geospatial data market is expected to grow to $73.9 billion by 2021, up from $30.7 billion in 2016. Spatial data refers […]