Chris Preimesberger

eWEEK has started 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 […]

As IT gets away from being a cost center and becomes a creator of competitive market advantage, it’s more important than ever that CIOs and CFOs get along with each other and direct operations from the same playbook. As we know, this is often easier said than done. The realities of who’s driving decision-making for […]

eWEEK has started 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 […]

Intel, which along with IBM and both Hewlett-Packards are among the most established, straight-laced Silicon Valley corporations of them all, reported June 21 that its Chief Executive Officer, Brian Krzanich, has resigned after admitting a consensual relationship with a company employee. Krzanich, 58, had served five years as CEO. The company said he violated a […]

Even though the cloud finally has become the preferred carrier for many—but certainly not most—enterprise applications, IT organizations remain hesitant to trust all public clouds to host Microsoft SQL Server applications. Why? What are the differences among the Big 5: Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, Oracle and Microsoft Azure? Glad you asked. Among the concerns […]

Rackspace isn’t afraid to make up its own new enterprise cloud markets. On June 20 at the HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas, the internet services provider revealed that it has expanded its private cloud-as-a-service portfolio in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to launch Rackspace Kubernetes-as-a-Service (RKaaS). This will include a pay-per-use infrastructure in a private […]

Data platform and analytics provider Teradata filed copyright infringement suit in federal court June 20, contending that SAP utilized its trade secrets to develop a crown jewel product, the in-memory HANA database. Dr. Vishal Sikka, who resigned from SAP in 2014, and SAP board chairman/company co-founder Hasso Plattner are the principals who developed HANA (which […]

Most of us have seen the memo: The internet of things will become the backbone of the next industrial revolution and is emerging as one of the most impactful technology trends in recent memory. But now we have some decent metrics to qualify these claims. McKinsey & Co. has forecast that IoT will generate up […]

If you haven’t yet heard much about how “edge” networks are going to become a major force in the IT of the future, you’d better be prepared for reading a lot about them soon. In fact, right now is one of those times. For the past few years here at eWEEK, we’ve been citing the […]

Toshiba is all about enabling its customers to maintain their legacy server hardware by making solid-state disks that turn conventional servers into new-gen servers. The U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corp. wants to make life after SATA (serial ATA) disks an unruffled experience for all storage admins. On June 18 the company launched what it […]

Here is the latest article in a new 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 […]

They’ve been in the works for a while, and now they’re here: Portable workstations certified for development of virtual and augmented reality applications. These aren’t items that are being used much right now, but Lenovo is enacting that hockey term that a lot of non-hockey people like to use: They’re skating to where the puck […]