Chris Preimesberger

How IIoT Standards Can Make Smart Cities Even Smarter During the last 25 years or so, the internet has revolutionized how people communicate, what they do and how they work together. The next wave of the internet—the industrial internet of things (IIoT)—connects machines and devices into distributed, intelligent systems. These interconnected systems work together with […]

When Accenture, one of the largest and most respected IT integrators in the world, speaks, people listen. After all, this is a company that is literally making important real-world updates on the front lines of IT and has long been among the first to solve problems today that others will encounter in the future. It’s […]

Amdocs, which provides user-facing software and services to entertainment and media companies, is bridging legacy systems with new ones. The veteran software maker has launched AmdocsONE, which enables DevOps deployments using machine-learning and microservices capabilities. The new solution set uses industry-specific best practices and methodologies derived from servicing more than 350 customers worldwide to give […]

Swedish IT power player Ericsson revealed Feb. 27 that it is extending its partnership with data center owner/operator Equinix to offer IT managed services using the Equinix Performance Hub and 5G connectivity when it becomes widely available in 2019 or 2020. Equinix’s efficient new data management hub provides a new-gen, high-speed approach to improving network […]

When a successful IT trend takes root—cloud services, social networks and IoT are three examples—leaders in the sector inevitably expand their successful-in-the-trend products to get more specialized. Salesforce.com, which next year celebrates its 20th  birthday, has been a leader in following this pattern. Starting as a relatively simple customer-relationship management app in 1999, Salesforce has […]

Samsung Electronics is widely known for smartphones, televisions, washing machines and other consumer-oriented IT products. But lately it’s been putting a lot of investment into IT greenfields, including the internet of things. The huge South Korea-based conglomerate on Feb. 26 announced a new partnership with Boston-based PTC that it says will enable industrial IoT customers […]

IT is nothing if not about disruption of formerly comfortable businesses. Look at how Netflix, Hulu and others have blown up the cable industry, what Airbnb has done to challenge the hospitality business and how Uber and Lyft have basically disassembled the cab cartel. Of course, not every company in every vertical has been knocked […]

We’ve been using the customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) buzzwords pretty regularly for a few years. Now perhaps it’s time to add one that’s more specific and even a little funny-sounding: MUX (our term), short for the mobile user experience. Cisco Systems, not one to shy away from a trendy acronym, made an […]

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 […]

It had to happen sometime. Dropbox said publicly Feb. 23 that it has filed for an initial public offering after threatening to do so for more than five years. The San Francisco-based cloud storage and business productivity tool maker, which had secretly filed to go public in January, plans to raise $500 million to push […]

DataTorrent, one of the few data management companies that provides big data analytics by using real-time, data-in-motion stream processing, has announced a significant update to its platform. The company said Feb. 22 that its real-time streaming platform, DataTorrent RTS 3.10, which is for building, deploying and operating real-time streaming data applications, now contains added functionality […]

Most people—even seasoned IT professionals and industry observers—do not understand the 10-year-old concept of blockchain. Because the main purpose of eWEEK throughout its 35 years of existence has been to inform, illuminate and instruct our readership, that’s what we’re going to do in this article. We’re also going to explain how a major IT corporation […]