Chris Preimesberger

It wasn’t specifically because the company’s name sounded misleadingly like a Wall Street fintech app, but as of March 28 Comtrade Software has changed its name to match its frontline product: HYCU. The Boston-based software maker, which provides data backup, recovery and monitoring for hyperconverged IT infrastructures, last June launched HYCU (pronounced haiku and stands […]

When Adobe, the international creative-content and marketing product and service giant, combined its flotilla of cloud-based marketing and customer-facing functions into what it called the Adobe Experience Cloud last year, it did so despite lacking a key component: a new-gen data integrator to facilitate and optimize all that data movement. Now that’s been rectified. SnapLogic, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Remember all those predictions from years ago about what life was going to look like in the 21st century? Flying cars, space travel, robot maids, “beam me up”—you know the drill. There was another one that always seemed to be included in those futuristic fantasies: wall-size video screens. Up to now, […]

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 […]

Facebook may be known as The Social Network, but it’s really nothing more than a glorified media channel—like clicking the TV remote, only with a lot more interactivity. When you decide to use a free public channel on television or the internet, you opt-in to abide by the rules of that channel. This means you […]

Flash drive maker Nimbus Data may be a smaller storage provider than such major players as SanDisk/WD, Samsung and Toshiba, but it is now ahead of them all in one key category: drive capaciousness. Nimbus this week introduced its ExaDrive DC100, the largest-capacity (100TB) solid-state drive ever produced. In addition to having more than three […]

LAS VEGAS – Amid all the talk, videos and live demos at IBM Think 2018 around artificial intelligence, quantum computing and dozens of other cool technologies, the host company also spent some quality time on good, old-fashioned security. IBM on March 20 unveiled four new cloud services for mainframe-level data protection—solutions already trusted by the […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM, which brought us monstrous mainframe computers in the early 1960s, Selectric typewriters in the 1970s and the first Windows PCs in the early 1980s, has a new mission in life in the 20-teens: to make artificial intelligence part of the IT woodwork. And it looks like they’ve got a good playmaker with that […]

LAS VEGAS – VMware, whose software resides in virtually every data center in the world but who also wants to become a player inside enterprise office PCs, released some new features for its Workspace ONE platform March 21. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtualization software maker claims that this is the first and only “intelligence-driven digital […]

LAS VEGAS—In the latest illustration as to how IBM is installing Watson as the virtual beating heart of its entire franchise, the company at the Think 2018 conference on March 20 launched a set of tools called Watson Data Kits, which are designed to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence applications for enterprises. Watson Data […]

LAS VEGAS – IBM’s Think 2018 conference, the first-of-its-kind rollup of five older conferences–IBM World of Watson, InterConnect, Edge, Amplify and Connect—has attracted more than 35,000 people representing most of the countries in the world to the Mandalay Bay Conference Center this week. “This is officially the largest event in IBM’s history!” Ginny Rometty (pictured, […]

Data integration has always ranked high among the most persistent IT system problem areas, no matter what the use case. It’s just really is hard to do, and even if you do it well, unexpected problems always seem to pop up. Salesforce apparently has had enough of that and has come up with a clever […]