Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t that long ago that established IT providers such as IBM, Microsoft, SAP, HP and Oracle all were busy working inside their own virtual fortresses, developing proprietary software or hardware, fending off the growing Linux and Apache trends–and generally eschewing the idea of community-type development. That’s pretty much all gone with […]

Xilinx (pronounced “zye-links”) is one of those funny-named, specialized companies that makes a cog in data center machinery that is important for efficiency’s sake but that is so melded into the infrastructure that it’s easy to be overlooked. The San Jose, Calif.-based chipmaker, which makes an item called a field-programmable gate array, or FPGA for […]

Seven Ways Enterprises Are Using Supercomputers to Solve Global Issues Supercomputing has morphed greatly since its early days back in the 1970s. From megabytes and megaflops to petabytes and petaflops, supercomputers have evolved over the years to keep pace with the exponential growth of data and the constant demand for ever-increasing application performance at scale. […]

Object storage software provider Cloudian revealed March 15 that it has acquired Infinity Storage, a Milan-based pioneer in software-defined file storage solutions. Terms of the transaction were not released. In adding Infinity’s technology, Cloudian is able to offer customers integrated file and object-based storage packages that consolidate all unstructured data types into what the company […]

How to Avoid a Dead End on the Road to a Digital Changeover Digital disruption—a buzz term for jumping the chasm from conventional business processes to cloud-based services and other new IT—is impacting businesses across industries. More and more enterprises are moving away from the old and investing in this so-called digital transformation (or DX, […]

Skedulo, which specializes in new-gen mobile workforce management for small to midange-size businesses, has launched a new stand-alone version of its platform for operations teams and their mobile-first workers. The 2-year-old San Francisco-based startup has been building its business by running on both Salesforce and ServiceNow clouds and will continue to do so.  But as […]

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 […]

Cloud communications and customer engagement software provider 8×8 is combining several standalone products into a single new deployment option. The company announced the launch of X Series, a new version of its platform that combines call center, collaboration and conferencing options to improve a business’s CX (customer experience) quotient—something that is getting more and more […]

Citing national security concerns, U.S. President Donald Trump stepped into the middle of a contentious hostile takeover attempt by Broadcom of chipmaker Qualcomm March 12 and blocked it. It was the latest demonstration of his administration’s increasingly protectionist business stance. In his presidential order, Trump said “there is credible evidence” that led him to believe […]

On Wednesday, March 14, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 65th 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:  “The Rise of Automation in All Technology” Date/time: […]

In the solid-state disk business, the first quarter of the calendar year is normally the so-called “off-season,” in which the market cools down a little after a busy year. Then each quarter ramps back up as production of personal computers, desktop PCs, tablets and other devices gets into gear. True to form, in Q1 2018 […]

iPhones and Samsung and other Androids may have knocked BlackBerry out of the high-visibility smartphone market in 2016, but there’s one major aspect of the Canadian company’s business no one will dispute: BlackBerry knows how to do encryption security in its software. In fact, its excellent email and web encryption is one of the reasons […]