Chris Preimesberger

Cisco Systems is shoehorning everything but the kitchen sink into the latest version of its hyperconverged cloud platform. The giant networking company on Jan. 25 upgraded HyperFlex with a v3.0 release that includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V, stretch clusters, containers and new multicloud services that enable applications to be deployed, monitored and managed in any […]

Can specialized software and a virtual reality application be used to help eliminate workplace accidents? The man who created the video game “Grand Theft Auto” and his startup NextWave Safety Solutions, say yes; as a result, manufacturers, enterprises and insurance companies may soon be sitting up and taking notice. The New York-based company on Jan. […]

This is the latest article in a new feature series in eWEEK 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 the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—So which applications are the hottest ones now used in enterprises around the country and world? Because there are multiple thousands of applications scattered everywhere, getting into a top-anything list is quite an accomplishment. You might take a wild guess that Microsoft Office 365 is the most popular enterprise app as measured by total […]

Enterprise resource planning software, otherwise known by the acronym ERP, became a huge trend late in the 1990s and early 2000s.  Through no fault of its own, it since has been eclipsed in the news by sexier enterprise data management packages such as mobile device management (MDM), customer relationship management (CRM) and other acronymed systems. […]

Deloitte Digital, which has been investing in IT mobility solutions for several years and has predicted increasing use of augmented and virtual reality applications on smartphones, also is putting its money into hybrid cloud management services. The Seattle-based consultancy and investor revealed Jan. 23 that it has acquired assets of ATADATA, an Atlanta-based provider of […]

Like the whole of the IT business, the networking sector saw its share of continuous evolution in 2017.  For example, last year witnessed the first shipments of 400G technologies into the wide-area network via solutions from AT&T and Vodafone New Zealand; the increased deployment of software-defined networking; and an early example of augmented reality go […]

We already know that Digital Realty, a rising international colocation and interconnection data center owner/operator, is intent upon expanding its literal IT footprint in the real estate investment trust business. eWEEK reported on this last fall when DR completed its merger with DuPont Fabros, an owner, developer, operator and manager of enterprise-class, carrier-neutral, multi-tenant data […]

We’re hearing a lot about so-called “edge computing”—largely because our devices (smartphones, laptops, tablets, IoT devices) on the fringes of centralized systems can hold much more information and do more with it than in years past. Definition: Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of […]

Fresh off an encouraging quarterly earnings report, IBM on Jan. 19 indicated that it is truly a progressive institution by revealing that Watson soon will be “marrying” Salesforce’s Einstein in order to enable smoother transactions with customers. Implications not withstanding, the expanded partnership with Salesforce will coordinate IBM Cloud and Watson artificial intelligence services with […]

There may be no more pervasive computer code anywhere in the world than Java, created by Dr. James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun’s Java Platform. And there are good reasons for this. For the record: Java is a general-purpose […]

Bellevue, Wash.-based Synology on Jan. 18 released three new consumer and enterprise storage packages that run on the company’s line of network-attached storage (NAS) products. Drive, Office and Moments enable users to store, back up and synchronize their images, documents and other files while keeping their data private and secure, the company said. Here are the […]