Chris Preimesberger

Server-making startup TidalScale, which introduced itself and its new product a year ago at the Open Compute Project Summit, has unveiled the next generation of its software-defined server—what some analysts have called the missing piece of the composable software-defined data center. Composable infrastructure is a trendy architecture that was given visibility by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s entry […]

Cloud data management and storage provider Rubrik on April 4 launched what it boldly described as the industry’s first cloud-based platform developers can use to create data-management applications. Companies such as Oracle, Delphix, VMware, NetApp, Dremio and a few others may not totally agree with that statement. Nonetheless, Rubrik claimed that its new Polaris platform […]

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 […]

More and more enterprises might be moving portions of their IT systems to cloud-based subscription-economy services, but there’s still a lot of hardware being bought and put into operation around the world. Industry analyst International Data Corp. reported April 3 in its Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker that worldwide market revenue in that sector increased […]

This is becoming a trend: Once again, data migration and integration news is at the top of the tech business lineup. JetStream Software, which on April 3 launched both itself and a next-generation cross-cloud data management platform, joins existing traffic on the data migration and integration virtual highway. Its new JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform gives cloud […]

Why AR/VR May Be the Future of Employee Training The number of jobs for virtual reality developers and engineers has increased tremendously over the last few years. This reflects growing interest in VR from SMBs (small to midsize businesses) to Fortune 500 companies, notably for workforce VR training simulations. VR is charting new trails in […]

Data integration and migration has been high up in tech news lineups the first few months of this new year. Salesforce spent a whopping $6.5 billion March 20 in acquiring MuleSoft to power its new integration cloud. Adobe on March 27 partnered with SnapLogic—and could possibly acquire it in the future—to integrate its myriad complicated […]

How important is safely backing up all your digital property—photos, documents, videos, financial records, software, social network remembrances, and so on? Imagine for a moment losing all of that personal information to the wilds of nature following a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, flood or earthquake. What would you do? You’ve spent a lifetime […]

Pure Storage, not one to miss a trend of any kind, has braced for the evolving storage market with a new solid-state package called AI-Ready Infrastructure—AIRI, for short—and powered by the hottest processor-maker in the world, Nvidia. Designed and developed by both companies in a partnership, AIRI is described as “purpose-built to enable data architects, […]

We’re already quite familiar with artificial-intelligence apps like Siri, Alexa, Google and Cortana at the consumer level. And we know that AI and machine learning are slipping into more and more enterprise apps—at the industrial, value-chain and customer-facing levels, for starters. Now there’s an example of an internal enterprise app that uses AI for another […]

Plantronics, which makes communications peripherals such as audio headsets and microphones, doubled its market value March 28 by acquiring privately held Polycom. The deal was a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $2 billion. Polycom, which provides open standards-based unified communications packages for telepresence-type video, voice and collaboration functions, said it had revenue of $1.1 billion last […]

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 […]