Chris Preimesberger

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Talk about going “all in,” and fast. Western Digital, the storage hardware artist formerly known as WD, boldly predicted Nov. 28 that it is going to sell more than 1 billion new RISC-V core processors within the next two years. RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction-set computing architecture based on established reduced […]

SnapLogic, which specializes in a hard-to-do-well segment–self-service application and data integration–has unveiled its fall 2017 product release. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, housed safely in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration as a Platform, added improvements to its Enterprise Integration Cloud that include new and updated pre-built intelligent connectors, called Snaps. These enable users to more […]

Enterprise collaboration tools can be a huge and messy operation to administer and monitor. Because there are so many competitors in this market and that employees already come into a job with their favorite tools, most companies find themselves using multiple platforms for conferencing and collaboration tasks. These include chat, email, videoconferencing, messaging, streaming video […]

As time and IT innovation move on, we’re seeing more and more clouds for specific purposes. These are clouds for verticals that include retail, health care, financial services and science projects. But they also are aimed at specific jobs, such as video processing, genome tracking, oil and gas exploration and others. As of Nov. 28, […]

Eight Reasons Why Chatbot Technology Isn’t Ready for Commercial Use In about three years, most people will be having more conversations with bots than with their spouses, according to Gartner Research. However, there are experts who believe that chatbots in their current state aren’t quite ready for serious business relationships. In this eWEEK slideshow, Stephen […]

Comtrade Software, which has hitched its fortunes to that of hyperconverged systems powerhouse Nutanix, is now reaching out to offer new support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. Earlier this year, Comtrade launched its HYCU platform, which is purpose-built data storage protection for Nutanix servers. On Nov. 27, the Boston-based company said its […]

When an important trend impacts verticals such as IT, supporting technologies affected by the trend are amended to accommodate new software, hardware or services that fit into the trend. These often become major selling points for supporting tech companies. A good example of this happened two-and-a-half years ago when VMware came up with Lightwave and […]

Any company that can persuade IT heavyweights such as John Thompson and Ed Zander to be on the board of directors is a company with which to be reckoned. StorONE, which last week introduced for early adopters a new type of storage software called TRU (for Total Resource Utilization), is that company.  Thompson, chairman of […]

Hyperscaling at Speed: Insights From Airbnb, Spotify, Shippo, Others Businesses that enter hypergrowth mode face challenges across all aspects of the organization—from technology, sales, marketing and more—but importantly, it affects the core of the company, its customers. If companies don’t scale fast enough, they lose their industry-leading position and somebody else gets to enjoy the […]

In exactly six months—May 25, 2018, to be precise—the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. Businesses already are on a tight deadline to get their artificial intelligence and email applications ready for it. The GDPR is all about artificial intelligence and the personal-information data that supplies it. Enterprises are increasingly deploying […]

If IT were a television show, it would be “Hoarders.” Organizations are creating and storing more and more data every day, and they’re having a difficulty finding effective places to put it all. In fact, according to research by IDC, by 2020 we will hit the 44 zettabyte mark, with about 80 percent of the […]

How Good Collaboration Software Can Help Erase Shadow IT Most organizations contend that content security is always their highest priority. However, unless content collaboration technology is easy to use, users will inevitably turn to less-secure shadow IT solutions like Dropbox, Evernote and Google Drive. Why? Employees simply want to be productive and get work done. […]