Chris Preimesberger

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 […]

Cloud data management and storage provider Rubrik this week released Rubrik Alta 4.2, a new step forward for its do-it-all data control platform. Alta 4.2 reinforces Rubrik’s single control plane for the enterprise hybrid cloud, with more detailed support for private cloud, public cloud and traditional data center workloads. Rubrik’s basic value proposition is that […]

Deduplication doesn’t make the news all that much anymore in the storage world. This is largely because most storage systems already have it included as a taken-for-granted feature, whereas in the past it was a high-importance option for which companies paid extra. Data deduplication simply is the process of eliminating redundant data. Deduplication backs up […]

Most of us now use our phones for a high percentage of our work, especially younger men and women who have been immersed in connected devices since they were toddlers. But there’s always going to be a need for laptop and notebooks PCs, because certain business tasks require it. HPI, the world’s largest maker and […]

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 […]

Oracle isn’t trying to challenge Google Maps for GPS superiority, but on June 13 it did make available something called an Internet Intelligence Map—an item Google hasn’t shown anybody yet. The idea is to provide users with a simple, graphical way to track the health of the internet and gain insight into the impact of […]

SAN FRANCISCO – More than 5,000 developers from around the globe are attending the fifth annual DockerCon conference here at Moscone West during a beautiful, blue-sky weather week. Containers, Kubernetes scheduling and new-gen security to protect them both in production are the main topics this week. Here are some news items collected on Day 1 […]

IGEL, which makes endpoint management software for the enterprise, revealed June12 that it is optimizing its IGEL UD3 software-defined thin clients to the second-generation AMD Embedded G-Series system-on-a-chip (SoC), the GX-424.  In April, IGEL announced the integration of the AMD Embedded R-Series SoC with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics into its newly introduced IGEL UD7 thin client. […]

IBM, which hardly wants to see AWS continue to control 35 percent of the cloud services market and fast-growing Microsoft Azure surpass the 10 percent mark, has announced a major expansion of its own cloud capabilities. IBM, which has invested north of $3 billion in its cloud business, is planning to launch 18 new availability […]

Seattle-based NetMotion Software, which makes intelligence-driven mobile performance software, this week launched what it described as the world’s first operational intelligence platform designed specifically for enterprise mobility management. NetMotion’s software platform gives enterprises visibility and control of their mobile deployments using information previously unused on mobile devices. The software enables IT staff to solve mobility […]

Looks like Watson has a new, younger, but somewhat brawnier, family member. On June 8 the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled IBM’s Summit supercomputer and immediately billed it as the “world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.” As impressive as it certainly is, IBM and the DoE might get a legitimate […]

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 […]