Chris Preimesberger

People sometimes forget that Facebook isn’t only in the social networking advertising business. For about four years, it’s been making a concerted effort to develop productivity tools for the enterprise, and the investments are starting to pay off. Its frontline package of business apps, Workplace by Facebook, was launched in October 2016 and has made […]

Confluent, which makes a streaming-data platform based on open-source Apache Kafka, on May 22 announced a partnership with Google to make that cloud-based service available on Google Cloud Platform for enterprise production use cases. These projects could include event-driven applications, machine learning for advanced analytics and hybrid-cloud data pipelines, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said. […]

Because it brings in nearly $20 billion per year and controls about 35 percent of the market in cloud services, AWS probably doesn’t have to worry about its competition too much just yet. But Microsoft Azure is sure picking up a lot of new customers and/or partners lately.   eWEEK has been reporting about new […]

Nine Steps to Future-Proofing Smart Cities We’ve been reporting in eWEEK for several years on the business potential for internet of things (IoT) IT at work in so-called smart cities. The future continues to look bright for this sector. IDC recently reported that spending on smart-city technology is expected to hit $80 billion globally this […]

It’s usually fun and interesting to look back at various periods of history and see what stood out to put an indelible impact on them. For example, the 1950s were the Cold War years; the ‘60s were the civil rights and rock ‘n’ roll rebellion decade; the ‘80s were the “Big Hair” years; and the […]

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 […]

Micron Technology and Intel, whose partnership ups and downs have been likened to that of human married couples, on May 21 announced production and shipment of the industry’s first 4bits/cell 3D NAND technology, otherwise known as quad-level cell NAND. Don’t mix up “quad-level” with “quad-core,” which describes a segment of Intel processors that have been […]

We’ve been writing about graph search here in eWEEK for more than five years, reporting that large and very successful companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft were using it to build and grow their businesses. Now the technology is finally trickling down, so to speak, so mainstream users can also take advantage of it. […]

Intel plays a lot of roles in the IT business besides making processors with microscopic transistors for servers, PCs, the internet of things, and mobile devices. It also makes security hardware and software, memory and programmable enterprise solutions, 5G connectivity hardware and software and a list of others too long to note here. But one […]

Making sure clean data is flowing inside an enterprise is like keeping a close eye on a motor vehicle’s oil level and quality; you do not want to “run dirty” in either case, because all it can do is gum up the works. Clean data can be described as complete, accurate, relevant, up to date, […]

Cloud-service delivery platform maker Akamai Technologies has forged a significant new connection with the world’s No. 1 customer relationship management provider, Salesforce. The company on May 17 launched something called the Akamai Connector for Salesforce Commerce Cloud, which already enables enterprises to provide personalized experiences for shoppers through web, mobile, social and in-store environments. Using […]

MarkLogic, the de facto standard-bearer of the enterprise NoSQL database market, on May 16 released v9.0-5 of its product that the company claims has significantly improved automation, security and management functions. MarkLogic 9.0-5 provides enterprises with greater security out-of-the-box, enhanced facilities for mission-critical operations and workload management and major improvements to MarkLogic’s open source, fully […]