Chris Preimesberger

Walmart has been competing hard against No. 1 Amazon for years to be the king of e-commerce in North America. Now it’s decided to find a new way around its rival and conquer a huge market in India. The mega-retailer revealed on May 9 that it will buy a 77 percent stake for $16 billion […]

Savvius, which has specialized in making networking operations instrumentation for nearly three decades, May 8 unveiled a new version of its frontline product that gives enterprises the ability to more effectively analyze and control network traffic generated by key business applications. Spotlight 2.0 can monitor a list of SaaS applications–including Office 365, Salesforce, Citrix and […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google made its usual series of interesting and semi-interesting product and update announcements onstage May 8 on Day One of its I/O conference at Shoreline Amphitheater. But it truly stunned the crowd of about 10,000 developers with these two: 1) a demonstration of Google Assistant conducting very human-like conversations in making typical […]

Companies are constantly making it easier and easier for us to spend our money. But that’s a good thing for our creditors. Stripe and Microsoft are going a level further than the usual point-and-click or swipe the credit card to enable purchasing. Now when you get a bill emailed to you, you can pay it […]

As GDPR Looms, Enterprises Must Lock Down Security, Data Privacy A recent Advice from Counsel (AfC) study, released by FTI Technology, examined the latest data privacy and security concerns as well as best practices within large U.S. corporations. The study found that control, determining what’s important and helping to lead organizational change in light of […]

On Wednesday, May 9, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “New Roles for VR and AR in Enterprise IT.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “New Roles for VR and […]

EPAM Systems, a publicly traded consultancy and developer of digital platform engineering and software development services, has launched InfoNgen 7.0, an enterprise insight engine that imports ready-made, customized content from more than 200,000 web sources in multiple languages and includes sophisticated sentiment analysis. The addition of machine learning through neural networks significantly improves the fidelity […]

Stripe, which started out in 2010 by providing a set of unified APIs and tools that enables businesses to accept and manage online payments for any type of credit or debit card, is using that experience to branch out in a new security area. The San Francisco-based payments-and-security software company has launched a new version […]

We’re constantly hearing about how analytics and machine learning are turning the IT world upside down. The is due directly to the major convergence in the last five years of fast new networks, leaner software, more efficient software architectures, more powerful but less power-hungry processors, ingenious mobile devices and virtually unlimited data storage. All these […]

To a resounding cheer from the F8 conference audience at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on May 2, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced onstage that everyone in attendance–meaning all 5,000 attendees–were each taking home an Oculus Go, the company’s new wireless virtual reality headset. The new VR device was made available in […]

Neo4j, whose graph search platform was the central tool used by a 300-member team from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to research the Panama Papers project that won a 2017 Pulitzer Prize, has released both a new version of the database and a new app to facilitate use of it. Among the Neo4j 3.4 […]

Eight Reasons Machine Learning Isn’t Mainstream in the Enterprise Machine learning has made huge strides in recent years. It’s helped Netflix perfect binge watching, taught Siri how to sound more human and matched people’s selfies with famous pieces of art. But when it comes to machine learning use cases for the enterprise, it gets a […]