Chris Preimesberger

Hitachi Vantara, born last September as a wholly owned subsidiary of the global Hitachi Ltd., is starting to assert its own storage-business personality. This is way more than just an organizational update. Hitachi Vantara is a essentially a new company resulting from  the convergence of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho. The new […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Most of us are aware of Staples’ big red easy button from myriad television and web commercials. Well, AT&T, with the big help of Amazon Web Services, is launching its own take on that concept, only it’s literal–and it’s not red. The mega-telecom on May 16 launched a new service using […]

ServiceNow (IT, HR service delivery, security operations and customer service management) Company description: ServiceNow provides cloud-based workflow solutions that make work, work better for people, by defining, structuring, managing and automating assets and services while breaking down silos for enterprise operations. It is a publicly traded company headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. ServiceNow founder Fred Luddy created […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, looking ahead at the rising potential of the software-defined data fabric market, made an important investment there on May 15, only we don’t know exactly how much that investment will cost the company at this point. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based corporation revealed that it will acquire Plexxi, an 8-year-old provider of hybrid SDN […]

Object storage software provider Cloudian had some good news May 15 for a growing number of storage admins out there who are adding cloud instances to their on-premises systems. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company launched its HyperStore Test Drive on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that provides users with fast access to a dedicated, fully operational […]

SAN FRANCISCO — RSA Security’s annual conference, staged recently at Moscone Center in San Francisco, is the largest of its kind in the world. The Innovation Sandbox it hosts each year is the closest thing to a “Shark Tank”-style reality TV show for cybersecurity startups, and it is always a popular subset of the main […]

How to Navigate the Fragmented Data Landscape on AWS Since launching in early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has grown into an expansive range of offerings for virtually every area of infrastructure and software—from storage, networking and computing, to applications and software developer tools. Companies re-platforming to AWS find a diverse and complicated set of […]

Company description:  Founded as LANDESK in 1985, privately held Ivanti is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah and headed by CEO Steve Daly. Ivanti unifies IT and Security Operations to better manage and secure the digital workplace. From PCs to mobile devices, VDI, and the data center, Ivanti discovers IT assets on-premises and in the cloud, […]

Data Artisans, the Berlin, Germany and San Francisco-based maker of Flink, has announced the general availability of dA Platform, which it describes as the industry’s first “turnkey” stream-processing platform to enable enterprises to obtain insights from data in milliseconds. The new release productionizes stream processing and enables companies to provide live data applications as a […]

IT hardware market research firm TrendForce reported May 10 that global tablet shipments for the first calendar quarter of 2018 recorded only 31.3 million units, a steep quarterly decline of 35 percent. The researcher said this was due largely to the traditional sales off-season for tablet PCs. When it comes to the second quarter, TrendForce said, […]

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 […]

SugarCRM, which last fall beefed up its cloud customer relationship platform with a mobile SDK and updated management platform, has released a Spring 2018 update that will enable its customers to automatically implement best practices for data privacy. These capabilities mean organizations can deploy SugarCRM products as a key part of their GDPR compliance plans. […]