Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Predictions and Wild Guesses for IT in 2018.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses […]

It’s so, so true: The term “digital transformation” is way past the buzz phrase stage and is now about to be enshrined in the Marketspeak Cliché Hall of Fame, along with “think outside the box,” “disruptive innovation,” “paradigm shift,” “bring to the table” and dozens of others. But there’s no getting around the fact that […]

Network-attached storage systems are the kind IT administrators mount on racks and keep running 24/7 in data centers. They’re like little self-sufficient private clouds, but they’re not clouds. Cloudian, whose name is more than a bit confusing because it makes object-based, on premises-located storage hardware and software systems—not cloud gateways or anything else cloud—is taking […]

Infrastructure performance management software maker Virtual Instruments has launched a new version of its VirtualWisdom platform that looks at virtual infrastructure from the perspective of an application. After all, the app—not the network, nor the storage— is what runs through the infrastructure to get a workload processed. The version 5.4 release extends new insight into […]

Caspio, which was providing low-code development platforms for database app developers before the term even existed, has released a new edition that automates application logic through a visual drag-and-drop interface. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Caspio enables non-technical business professionals to build custom web applications for capturing data, sharing information and automating business processes—quickly and at a […]

2018 is going to be about a lot of things in the IT realm, but none will be greater or more important to the world at large than the internet of things. Yes, you probably heard that same claim a year ago—maybe even two years ago. But now we’re seeing many more companies being started […]

This can be considered both a data storage and an innovation article, because there are abundant elements of both in this new touchscreen product. PhotoSpring, a fully automated digital photo frame, has announced—just in time for the holidays, by the way—that users are now able to view both photos and videos in the same slideshow, […]

How E-Retailers Can Thrive During Hectic Holiday Shopping Season Imagine customers walking into your store on Black Friday and picking up their favorite gadget, only to put it back down after taking a peek at the long checkout line. That’s a very real scenario: As retailers, banks, digital payment processors and security become increasingly available […]

Here’s the latest edition of a new occasional feature in eWEEK called IT Science, in which we look at what really happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. These articles describe industry solutions. The idea is to look at real-world examples of how new-gen IT products and services are making a difference in production each […]

SwiftStack contends that it can make automated data storage—whether it needs to be on-premises, in a cloud service, or a combination of both—actually work every time in production situations. This sounds simple, but it’s really not. In fact, this is far more of a guarantee than 99 percent of data storage providers will offer while […]

Even though it has been available for several years, blockchain technology is still a mystery to many business people. It is best known as the distributed database technology at the heart of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. It is hardened against tampering, preventing even its operators from revising or otherwise meddling with its continuously growing list […]

It took some doing and a few years of development, but VMware now supports microservices container development right out of its vSphere Cloud Foundation box. Thought you’d never see the day? Well, it’s here. Yes, VMware’s hypervisor and virtual machines compete directly against these open-source-based containers being offered by companies such as Docker, Red Hat, […]