Chris Preimesberger

IT industry authority Synergy Research Group reported Jan. 4 that across six key enterprise infrastructure hardware segments, vendor revenues for the last four quarters increased by nearly 3 percent. Aggregate revenues for the calendar year 2017 reached $113 billion, with revenue in each of the last 12 quarters typically in the $26 billion to $29 […]

New data from Synergy Research Group released Jan. 3 revealed that the total value of significant data center-oriented merger/acquisition transactions that closed in 2017 reached $20 billion, far surpassing the total for 2015 and 2016 combined. Entering 2018, there are also four additional major deals that have been agreed upon but not yet closed, with […]

A lot of people don’t think about or realize this, but both the thin/zero-client computer sector and Hewlett-Packard Inc.’s involvement in it are non-trivial market components. There are still a large number of enterprises that utilize hard drive-less PC terminals running on centralized IT systems in verticals all over the globe, and HPI continues to […]

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-based startup Splice Machine, which has developed a database management system specifically for hybrid clouds, has launched its own Online Predictive Processing Platform (OLPP) for powering the new generation of predictive applications that run both on premises and in clouds. The 5-year-old company also revealed that it has raised an additional $9 million from […]

Hardly a day went by in the second half of 2017 without news of sexual harassment allegations aimed at politicians, actors, entertainment moguls, business executives and men in other high positions. The constant stream of these news stories has brought new awareness of the problem to the public. Women are now coming forward with information […]

How to Choose a Data Warehouse That Is the Right Fit for Your Company Successful businesses depend on a steady stream of high-quality decisions. An enterprise data warehouse can provide the core infrastructure that fosters smart decisions across a company and its extended value chain. Specifically, a data warehouse is critical to the growth of […]

A respected industry researcher in the global graphics and multimedia markets on Dec. 29 released its annual review of GPU (graphics processing units) developments, and the results indicate good things for the year past and for 2018. Despite an overall slowdown in worldwide sales of PCs, PC-based GPUs sales–which include workstations–have been increasing, Jon Peddie […]

This is the latest article in a new occasional 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 […]

We’ve published a list of “prediction” articles here in eWEEK during the last few weeks as 2018 bears down upon us. We’ve touched on about 16 categories, including software, storage, cloud, IoT, artificial intelligence and others. Oh yes, we’ve also touched on key security trends to expect in 2018, compiled by our Sean Michael Kerner. […]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aren’t anything new; they’ve been around for decades. The public at large, however, has only become aware of them since the internet became mainstream in the mid-’90s. Since then, DDoS incidents have gone ballistic, with attacks reaching a size and scale never before seen.  [For the record: A DDoS hit is […]

Location data–not to mention lots of other types of information–is what more and more enterprises are collecting for their analytics engines, so they can better understand where their customers are and perhaps they’re going to want to buy next. Boundless, a 5-year-old server maker which specializes in open GIS (geographic information systems) for the enterprise, […]