Chris Preimesberger

One might have thought Salesforce, with its myriad web services, platforms and developer tools, would already have plenty of choices for its customers in terms of business collaboration options. Turns out there are still some gaps in the offering. To fill them, the world’s No. 1 business cloud services company announced March 9 that it […]

There is yet another new thing being offered “as a service” in town. That would be DMaaS, or data management as a service, and as of March 7 it’s been made available through global consultancy and software developer Wipro and edge device data management provider Druva. The two companies have partnered to provide the cloud […]

Here’s an encouraging data point for the entire IT business world: Worldwide server shipments and sales continue to move up and to the right, according to industry researcher Gartner. In an environment in which a sharply increasing number of companies are not buying servers because they are subscribing to cloud-based business services, big IT suppliers […]

Would you be interested in testing out a new-gen, cloud-based business-management system of record that features dashboards, an analytics engine and other tools an owner needs to run a business? Insightly is betting a lot of people will, in fact, be intrigued by the idea. Oh, and they also may be swayed by the fact […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure systems are all the rage, marketing analysts have been telling us for a couple of years. Everybody and his brother is trying to surf the prevailing wave that HCI represents. HP, Dell EMC, Cisco Systems, Lenovo, Nutanix, Pivot3, Cohesity, HyperGrid, Maxta and a group of others are crowding the space. While the competition […]

In the cloud services management business, there’s one thing nobody can have too much of—and that’s choice. Robin Systems, which describes itself as the only container-based, application-defined infrastructure software provider, is enlarging its menu of options. The San Jose, Calif.-based company announced March 6 the release of its Robin Cloud Platform 4.0, which has expanded […]

We’re all familiar with Watson, Cortana, Siri, Google and Alexa. Now say hello to Cloe, a machine-learning based analytics engine from Densify that won’t get you a restaurant reservation, but she’ll tell you all you want to know about how your data storage system is working. In fact, Cloe may be a pioneer for other […]

Hewlett-Packard Inc. is getting more specific with its business PCs. The venerable company on March 5 introduced a professional-class notebook, an all-in-one laptop and a display monitor—all tailor-made for the health care industry—at the HIMSS18 health-care technology conference in Las Vegas. HP, you may recall, has specialized some of its notebooks in the past, although […]

Here is the latest article in a new eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what really 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 […]

We already know that in the internet of things, devices, sensors and cloud services all connect to get things done—things like security surveillance, collecting and recording weather information, enabling live bodycams on police officers, connected parking meters and so on. All these use cases can theoretically be hacked by bad actors, which opens some opportunities […]

New-gen data management and storage software maker Cloudian has seen the storage future and is moving in a big way to prepare for what it sees as a monumental opportunity in the enterprise market. The San Mateo, Calif.-based has crafted a $125 million joint venture with investment firm Digital Alpha to put more development and […]

Intel and Micron, which have worked together to develop non-volatile memory packages for more than a decade, are getting what amounts to a divorce. But Intel isn’t worried; it’s already has picked up a new partner on the rebound. Intel is angling to move the focus of its 3D NAND flash storage-class memory business to […]