Chris Preimesberger

Pure Storage, not one to miss a trend of any kind, has braced for the evolving storage market with a new solid-state package called AI-Ready Infrastructure—AIRI, for short—and powered by the hottest processor-maker in the world, Nvidia. Designed and developed by both companies in a partnership, AIRI is described as “purpose-built to enable data architects, […]

We’re already quite familiar with artificial-intelligence apps like Siri, Alexa, Google and Cortana at the consumer level. And we know that AI and machine learning are slipping into more and more enterprise apps—at the industrial, value-chain and customer-facing levels, for starters. Now there’s an example of an internal enterprise app that uses AI for another […]

Plantronics, which makes communications peripherals such as audio headsets and microphones, doubled its market value March 28 by acquiring privately held Polycom. The deal was a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $2 billion. Polycom, which provides open standards-based unified communications packages for telepresence-type video, voice and collaboration functions, said it had revenue of $1.1 billion last […]

Here is the latest article in a new eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually 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 wasn’t specifically because the company’s name sounded misleadingly like a Wall Street fintech app, but as of March 28 Comtrade Software has changed its name to match its frontline product: HYCU. The Boston-based software maker, which provides data backup, recovery and monitoring for hyperconverged IT infrastructures, last June launched HYCU (pronounced haiku and stands […]

When Adobe, the international creative-content and marketing product and service giant, combined its flotilla of cloud-based marketing and customer-facing functions into what it called the Adobe Experience Cloud last year, it did so despite lacking a key component: a new-gen data integrator to facilitate and optimize all that data movement. Now that’s been rectified. SnapLogic, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Remember all those predictions from years ago about what life was going to look like in the 21st century? Flying cars, space travel, robot maids, “beam me up”—you know the drill. There was another one that always seemed to be included in those futuristic fantasies: wall-size video screens. Up to now, […]

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

Facebook may be known as The Social Network, but it’s really nothing more than a glorified media channel—like clicking the TV remote, only with a lot more interactivity. When you decide to use a free public channel on television or the internet, you opt-in to abide by the rules of that channel. This means you […]

Flash drive maker Nimbus Data may be a smaller storage provider than such major players as SanDisk/WD, Samsung and Toshiba, but it is now ahead of them all in one key category: drive capaciousness. Nimbus this week introduced its ExaDrive DC100, the largest-capacity (100TB) solid-state drive ever produced. In addition to having more than three […]