Chris Preimesberger

India-based HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners, a technology and growth-focused private equity firm, revealed April 12 that they put together a joint venture to acquire data management software maker Actian Corp. The all-cash transaction is valued at $330 million, HCL said. HCL will own 80 percent and SEP 20 percent of Action in the joint venture.  HCL […]

Zuora, a forward-thinking cloud-based business management provider that for years has proclaimed the viability of what it calls the “subscription economy,” started selling its stock publicly on the New York Stock Exchange April 12. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company’s stock originally was offered at $14 per share under the “ZUO” symbol; the stock jumped 43 […]

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 […]

Paperspace, a promising IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) startup and provider of artificial-intelligence tools for developers, is determined to bring easy-to-use AI functionality to software development. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company has launched a new suite of dev tools called Gradient, which enables the use of AI functionality by any developer—no matter what level of skills he or she […]

When Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg faced 44 senators and just about every media outlet in Washington, D.C. on April 10, it was an intriguing, and probably historic, five-hour moment. Not only for Silicon Valley and the tech community, but for just about anybody who’s ever used a computer or a smartphone. After all, […]

11 Reasons Enterprises Should Rethink How They Use Their Apps Enterprises now use hundreds of cloud services, but the current enterprise app concept is wrong. Why? The human brain simply does not work the way the mess of disjointed cloud services and enterprise apps are designed. Enterprise software conventionally is built around specific processes, but […]

After weeks of news headlines and cable-news talking heads scolding Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica breach news, it was bound to happen, and it did April 9: The social network was served with a class-action lawsuit for ostensibly not providing adequate security for its users’ personal information. The Hagens Berman law firm filed the class-action […]

On Wednesday, April 11, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 66th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “The Rise of Automation in All Technology.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic:  “Personal Information: Is Anything Secure?” Date/time: April 11, […]

Infinidat, which specializes in petabyte-scale enterprise data storage systems and is currently housing more than 3 exabytes of global customer deployments, has introduced four new products encompassing both hardware and software. They include a 450-pound, ballistically hardened “data bunker” storage appliance, a smaller data-protection appliance, a rack-mount array and cloud-based data-protection software. The company had […]

The word is out, if it wasn’t already: Do not mess with Oracle when it comes to its intellectual property. You may find yourself behind bars if you do. The co-owner and CEO of TERiX Computer Co., Inc. was sentenced in U.S. District Court April 5 for his role in fraudulently obtaining more than $10 […]

Whenever you go online to browse a catalog of products, search for a particular item or brand of item or look for a service, there’s always a lot more going on in the background than you might think. Usually a high number of resources are accessed in order for the whole operation to work smoothly. […]

Workboard is new outfit with a message that might seem obvious for enterprises but isn’t always followed: You can’t be successful unless everybody in the company understands the correct business strategy and is pulling together in the same direction. The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup has the ambitious goal of creating a new IT category called […]