Chris Preimesberger

Zoom, Webex and Skype video conferences are certainly all the rage right now as the alternatives to in-person business and team meetings, but there is a previously embedded culture out there that is set up for private room screenings for the same purposes. This method of private video conferencing is a corporate value for a […]

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped our workplaces in the blink of an eye, with social distancing mandating many employees to take their work home with them. This quick shift forced IT teams to cobble together work-from-home policies aimed at securing business’ data and devices regardless of location, while still enabling employees to maintain productivity. Particularly for […]

IGEL, which makes a Linux-based edge operating system for cloud workspaces, has launched IGEL Ready, a new program that opens up the company’s core enterprise software for any technology partner to integrate and validate their products.  Technologies from more than 90 companies are already integrated within IGEL’s platform, including Microsoft, Citrix and Zoom, and that […]

Even though the coronavirus pandemic has been impacting the globe demonstrably for nearing a half-year, enterprises are still adjusting their business approaches here in midsummer to continue to work efficiently. COVID-19 has forced both consumers and companies into a new digital reality. Prior to the pandemic, 70% of companies had a digital transformation initiative in […]

Redwood City, Calif.-based TigerGraph, which bills itself as “the only scalable graph database for the enterprise,” on July 16 launched a version of its cloud product, TigerGraph Cloud, for deployment on Microsoft Azure. This is in addition to TigerGraph’s current support for working in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. TigerGraph claims that this is […]

Each December here on eWEEK, we ask IT professionals to look ahead and offer some educated “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses” as to what we can expect from the coming year. There are always a lot of interesting answers, whether or not they turn out to be on- or off-target. So here it is […]

Nokia, born in 1865 in Finland, is the answer to the IT history trivia question: What company made the world’s No. 1-selling smartphone (well, they were sort of smart back in the 1990s and early 2000s) before BlackBerry, iPhone and the Androids? When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007–which subsequently ran rings around every […]

For decades, IT networks were considered little more than necessary plumbing that linked servers, storage and end-user clients, with the sole purpose of simply running data between the various points. However, the last several years have brought significant changes in IT, with the world rapidly becoming more data-centric, more software-defined, more distributed and more mobile. […]

On Tuesday, July 14, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 88th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be  “Next-Gen Networking Trends,” and it will be moderated by eWEEK Editor Chris Preimesberger. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat, July 14: “Next-Gen Networking Trends” Date/time: Tuesday, July 14, 11 a.m. PDT / 2 […]

Oracle CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison revealed July 8 that his company is now offering its customers a new option that amounts to a virtual private cloud environment, further blurring the differences between next-gen cloud services and conventional on-premises IT systems. Essentially, this means that Oracle will manage all of its cloud services—including its foundational […]

Danish audio peripherals maker EPOS has announced co-development with Germany’s Sennheiser of a new line of high-end, wired headsets co-branded by EPOS|Sennheiser and called IMPACT. Sennheiser has earned a reputation over four decades as being a high-quality but slightly more expensive maker of headphones and microphones. The co-development of this new line of audio peripherals […]

Storage Class Memory (SCM) is quickly moving out of the standard technology hype cycle and into real world implementation. The benefit? It’s simple: breakthrough latency performance. When combined with the latest storage protocols, NVMe and NVMe-oF, total system response time can be cut in half.   Multiple vendors now offer SCM in their server and storage […]