Chris Preimesberger

On Day 1 of its annual F8 conference, Facebook on May 1 explained how it is improving its stewardship of user data and showed its development community an impressive list of new projects upon which it wants to focus during the next few years. At the two-day event at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, […]

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 […]

Seven Keys to Unleashing the Full Potential of an SD-WAN System Within two years, about 25 percent of users will manage their wide-area networks through software, creating a $1.3 billion market by 2020, Gartner estimates. In turn, this is creating an SD-WAN market that is crowded with vendors large and small, making it difficult for […]

SAN FRANCISCO–What types of security tools actually work for the most people using connected devices? Passwords or PINs certainly have been the No.  1 choice for authentication for a lot of years, but many people believe that the time for punching in such a code has peaked. Hackers have been getting beyond passwords with impunity […]

Pivotal Software began selling public stock shares at $15 apiece April 20 on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the fourth notable IT player to go public this year. Zscaler (March 16), Dropbox (March 23) and Zuora (April 12) are the others. San Francisco-based Pivotal, an independent subsidiary that is 95 percent owned by Dell […]

SAN FRANCISCO — It was, by several accounts, the largest and highest-attended RSA Security conference in its 20-plus years of existence. More than 40,000 attendees from all over the globe came to learn about new IT security products and trends, sit in on valuable seminars, talk to the pros and meet new companies. It was […]

Scality, which makes software that manages file and object storage and multi-cloud data stores, has closed a $60 million round of venture funding to continue executing on its technology strategy as it makes multi-cloud real for its customers. The San Francisco-based company’s object storage infrastructure for petabyte-scale cloud storage deployments is used by service providers […]

SAN FRANCISCO—At the RSA Security conference, where 40,000-plus attendees are hustling around at the perpetually rebuilding Moscone Center, longtime security software maker and specialized socks provider (pictured) Sophos revealed some research it has done on the so-called “dirty secrets” about using firewalls in enterprise security. Once upon a time—and it wasn’t that long ago—companies thought […]

SAN FRANCISCO —A lot of people are talking about doing something to better protect the upcoming U.S. mid-term elections from malevolent outside influences. Santa Clara, Calif.-based security provider Centrify is doing something about it. Centrify, a proponent of a relatively new approach to enterprise security called Zero Trust, on April 16 at the RSA Security […]

Nine Best Practices for Keeping Bad Actors Out of a Database CIOs are facing a data security problem that continues to snowball. Cyber-attacks show no signs of stopping, forcing organizations to scramble to figure out how to best protect mission-critical data, particularly when it’s spread across silos in disconnected databases. And it’s not enough to […]

Insightly, a young CRM (customer relationship management) cloud service that has the gumption to compete directly against much larger and established companies such as Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and Adobe, released a new version of its product April 12–about a month after the previous iteration. This one is aimed at new-gen enterprises whose businesses require greater […]

NoSQL database and data management software maker Couchbase isn’t well known yet for its new enterprise mobility platform, but it’s already seen some market traction and is moving ahead to the second version of the product. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which also makes what it terms the “world’s first engagement database” focused on UX […]