Chris Preimesberger

From new gesture controls to high-definition haptic wear (AR for the blind), augmented reality “ears,” mixed reality sports and 3D smartphones, a lot of industry news was made at the Augmented World Expo USA 2018 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.  The event attracted nearly 6,000 attendees, 400 journalists and 250 exhibitors and featured more than 400 […]

IT is always looking to find the Next Big Thing. Here in mid-2018, that Thing would be 5G connectivity. What will drive this trend, of course, will be swift new chips optimized for that networking standard. At least two major IT product and service makers, Qualcomm and ARM, appear to be in front of the […]

An increasing number of enterprises are considering the adoption of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine IT that can expedite and make more efficient the execution of routine tasks. While we already think of robotics as important in use cases such as manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and drones, there are quite a few others […]

Most of us don’t think about what has happened behind the scenes to prepare our container of milk or fruit juice as it cools us down on a warm summer day. Literally billions of drink cartons each year are cut, printed, assembled, filled and sealed in assembly lines before you pick up the one that […]

Company description:  Flexera Software is a global leader in Software Asset Management and Software License Optimization solutions, enabling enterprises to gain visibility and control of IT assets, reduce ongoing software costs and maintain continuous license compliance. These capabilities are delivered as a comprehensive suite of enterprise software asset management and license compliance solutions that optimize […]

On Wednesday, June 13, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 68th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “What’s Next for Cybersecurity?” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat June 13: “What’s Next for Cybersecurity?” Date/time: June 13, 11 a.m. PST/2 […]

It didn’t take more than a few hours after midnight on May 24/25 for all the talk, written analysis and official notifications to enterprises about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation to turn into a phalanx of lawsuits about how organizations handle—or don’t handle—data privacy. On the first day of GDPR enforcement, Facebook, Instagram, […]

It’s a documented trend that enterprises are morphing their legacy on-premises IT systems to hybrid models that include cloud services. So it behooved performance management software specialist SolarWinds to look ahead and be prepared for this if it wanted to remain relevant. As a result, the company on May 24 launched a series of updates […]

One of the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) key mandates is that enterprises must know exactly upon which server and what geographic location the primary copy of each piece of data resides—and be prepared to prove it. Box, a cloud-based storage and enterprise collaboration tool provider, made things a bit easier for its customers May […]

IBM, the United Nations, the Red Cross and a group of other organizations are joining forces to help the IT world respond faster and more efficiently to natural disasters.  The newly formed coalition on May 24 launched a new project, the Call for Code Global Initiative, which IBM described as the largest and most ambitious […]

Flash storage systems maker Pure Storage wants everybody to know that when they see the term “shared accelerated storage” being used to describe new-gen flash arrays, they created the idea first. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which this week is hosting its annual Accelerate users conference at the Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco, has […]

Have any idea what the top IT trends are for the next three to five years? The Churchill Club, one of Silicon Valley’s longest-running and most successful business/social organizations, does. The well-respected club, which consists of many IT and venture capital executives and entrepreneurs, revealed its annual Top 10 Tech Trends list May 22 at […]