Chris Preimesberger

Data platform and analytics provider Teradata filed copyright infringement suit in federal court June 20, contending that SAP utilized its trade secrets to develop a crown jewel product, the in-memory HANA database. Dr. Vishal Sikka, who resigned from SAP in 2014, and SAP board chairman/company co-founder Hasso Plattner are the principals who developed HANA (which […]

Most of us have seen the memo: The internet of things will become the backbone of the next industrial revolution and is emerging as one of the most impactful technology trends in recent memory. But now we have some decent metrics to qualify these claims. McKinsey & Co. has forecast that IoT will generate up […]

If you haven’t yet heard much about how “edge” networks are going to become a major force in the IT of the future, you’d better be prepared for reading a lot about them soon. In fact, right now is one of those times. For the past few years here at eWEEK, we’ve been citing the […]

Toshiba is all about enabling its customers to maintain their legacy server hardware by making solid-state disks that turn conventional servers into new-gen servers. The U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corp. wants to make life after SATA (serial ATA) disks an unruffled experience for all storage admins. On June 18 the company launched what it […]

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 […]

They’ve been in the works for a while, and now they’re here: Portable workstations certified for development of virtual and augmented reality applications. These aren’t items that are being used much right now, but Lenovo is enacting that hockey term that a lot of non-hockey people like to use: They’re skating to where the puck […]

eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the […]

Cloud data management and storage provider Rubrik this week released Rubrik Alta 4.2, a new step forward for its do-it-all data control platform. Alta 4.2 reinforces Rubrik’s single control plane for the enterprise hybrid cloud, with more detailed support for private cloud, public cloud and traditional data center workloads. Rubrik’s basic value proposition is that […]

Deduplication doesn’t make the news all that much anymore in the storage world. This is largely because most storage systems already have it included as a taken-for-granted feature, whereas in the past it was a high-importance option for which companies paid extra. Data deduplication simply is the process of eliminating redundant data. Deduplication backs up […]

Most of us now use our phones for a high percentage of our work, especially younger men and women who have been immersed in connected devices since they were toddlers. But there’s always going to be a need for laptop and notebooks PCs, because certain business tasks require it. HPI, the world’s largest maker and […]