Chris Preimesberger

After providing a viable alternative for enterprise IT systems for nearly two decades, are NoSQL databases finally making significant inroads against the conventional proprietary world of SQL parallel databases? If you look at the marketshare numbers, this is true. New-gen providers such as MongoDB, MariaDB, MapR Technologies, DynamoDB and MarkLogic are leaders in the big […]

During the past decade, the assertion that the data warehouse is required to be the center of an enterprise data system started to break down in a variety of ways. Reasons were numerous; they included such unwanted results as increasing complexity, loss of speed and agility and increasing costs. As a result, instead of analytics […]

Dell EMC put some distance between itself and runner-up Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as the market leader in both server revenue and server units shipped globally in Q2 2018, according to IDC research released Sept. 5. For the overall industry, worldwide server vendor revenues increased 43.7 percent year over year to $22.5 billion during the quarter. Worldwide […]

Atlassian, the company that has revitalized the internal enterprise call center business with its Jira system, on Sept. 5 launched a new version of the already successful cloud software that aims to help software and IT teams take better control of their incident processes. The company describes Jira Ops as a hub for modern incident […]

The prospect of earning big bucks in connection with the upcoming fifth-generation wireless, or 5G–the latest iteration of cellular technology–is causing companies to partner up and get products ready for when this rolls out big time in 2019. Verizon, Apple and Google (for 5G video streaming), Cisco, Samsung and Orange (for a new LTE network […]

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 […]

Download our in-depth report at our sister publication, eSecurity Planet: The Ultimate Guide to IT Security Vendors eWEEK has an online library going back to 2000 and a lot more legacy information in our file storage going all the way back to 1983, the year we started in business as the PC Week newspaper at […]

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 […]

Data is always at or near the top in a listing of a company’s most important assets. To monetize their key business data, enterprises use analytics tools that search, prepare and evaluate the data; insights are then generated in order to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. One issue that has plagued corporations for […]

Qualcomm and Netgear on Aug. 30 introduced a new voice-activated smart-speaker device, called Netgear Orbi Voice, that is similar to Alexa, Siri and Google in that it understands speech and can carry out requests. But there’s a big difference: This one is part of a WiFi mesh network that actually strengthens itself and becomes more […]

As time moves along, it has become quite apparent that IT enterprises—especially the largest, most depended-upon providers—have had to find a way for their products work together in the huge global marketplace. IT in 2018 is all about interconnection, cooperation and so-called “coopetition”; no company can be an island in this international landscape and expect […]

NoSQL database developer Couchbase on Aug. 30 launched something that Docker/microservices/container-deployment developers may find rather intriguing: the first NoSQL autonomous operator for Kubernetes. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which also makes what it terms the “world’s first engagement database” focused on UX (user experience), described Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes is an application-specific controller that automates […]