Chris Preimesberger

Alongside the launch of a new product, Box has brought to the fore yet another acronym some people are going to have to get to know: GxP. GxP is a general abbreviation for “good practice” or “best practice” quality guidelines and regulations. The “x” is a placeholder for the various fields—the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, financial or […]

Back in October, IBM issued a third-quarter earnings report that, despite a slip in revenue, still exceeded Wall Street analysts’ estimates, suggesting that the venerable IT giant may be returning to revenue growth after five-and-half years of flat results and declines. On Jan. 18, that suggestion looked even more prescient. In its Q4 earnings report, […]

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 […]

7 Steps to Deploying Network Automation in Your Infrastructure Digital business demands that systems and people be agile in deploying new application services and in troubleshooting network problems. A key element to agility is network automation. The concept of automation may seem fairly straightforward; you use tools or scripts to execute manual tasks and workflows […]

Delphix, celebrating its 10th year in business in 2018, has put all its chips on something called DataOps to carve out its niche. The company uses DevOps, DataOps and a tool called Data Pods to provide its own brand of IT data management that has been earning close looks from a growing number of potential […]

CA Technologies is adding collaborative robot research and development to its already-packed product dance card. The New York-based company already has bustling businesses in mainframe software, automation, API distribution, security and several others. Nonetheless, on Jan. 17 CA revealed that it is moving to partner on something called cobotics–a collaborative robotics project–by working alongside Finland’s […]

Switzerland-based Veeam, which develops software for backing up and managing vSphere and Hyper-V virtual environments, on Jan. 16 announced the largest acquisition in its 11-year life: an all-cash $42.5 million buyout of N2W Software. NS2S, as it is known, was founded in 2012. It specializes in developing customized cloud-native solutions that transition servers, applications and […]

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 […]

Vertiv, the data center systems maker formerly known as Emerson Network Power, revealed Jan. 16 that has acquired Energy Labs, a privately owned, U.S.-based manufacturer of custom air-handling systems. The acquisition is designed to strengthen Vertiv’s position in the data center thermal management space and enables expansion into commercial and industrial segments with industry-leading cooling […]

Privately held analytics-driven data management startup Komprise has updated its platform and revealed some end-of-year business numbers.  The 3-year-old Campbell, Calif.-based company said it recorded record global sales growth despite tremendous competition in the data storage market. It claims a 500 percent year-over-year increase in the number of enterprise customers across all industries and regions–including […]

San Francisco-based cloud storage and file-sharing provider Dropbox has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a Jan. 11 Bloomberg News report. This is not a surprise to IT industry watchers. Dropbox has been rumored to be going public for at least five years, and it looks like management is now serious about […]

Facebook has tinkered with the way your personal News Feed serves up items in your account. As of Jan. 11, it now prioritizes and places news and other items from people already in your network ahead of items from brands and publishers—never mind the potential importance of out-of-network news items. The social network will use […]