Chris Preimesberger

DataTorrent, one of the few data management companies that provides big data analytics by using real-time, data-in-motion stream processing, has announced a significant update to its platform. The company said Feb. 22 that its real-time streaming platform, DataTorrent RTS 3.10, which is for building, deploying and operating real-time streaming data applications, now contains added functionality […]

Most people—even seasoned IT professionals and industry observers—do not understand the 10-year-old concept of blockchain. Because the main purpose of eWEEK throughout its 35 years of existence has been to inform, illuminate and instruct our readership, that’s what we’re going to do in this article. We’re also going to explain how a major IT corporation […]

Routine data storage, data backup and data recovery after a system breakdown—whether the latter is caused by internal or external sources—are all distinctly different functions. But they are equally important to an enterprise IT system. If a storage system cannot automatically rebound by restoring all the company’s data in a timely fashion—which means minutes or […]

SnapLogic, which specializes in a hard-to-do-well product—self-service application and data integration that uses pre-sets called Snaps—on Feb. 22 announced updates to its Enterprise Integration Cloud platform. The new release includes improvements to SnapLogic’s Iris AI capabilities, expanded support for Amazon and Relsio and platform performance upgrades, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company said. SnapLogic, a resident […]

As cloud services become more sophisticated, they also become more granular and specialized. As of Feb. 21, add another smart cloud to a growing list of options for enterprises. Reltio, known for developing something called the Self-Learning Data Platform, launched Reltio Cloud 2018.1, a new version of the native cloud platform that organizes enterprise data […]

A few weeks ago, 550 high school students started attending daily classes at Oracle—actually on the company’s headquarters campus—in a new charter-school program that began as a special project more than four years ago. The whole process that created d.tech (lower case is correct) High School (for Design Tech) High School in the Redwood City, […]

Any sector of a market that increases revenue by double digits in a single quarter is a sector that’s probably pretty healthy. This indeed was the case for the server-based DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) market, which reported Feb. 21 that revenue of the top three suppliers (Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron) rose by 14 percent […]

How to Successfully Deploy an Enterprise Data Lake As enterprises try to extract more value from their data, the notion of building a “data lake” has gained traction. Data lakes are repositories of large amounts of structured and unstructured data that can be processed without the restrictions of a traditional data warehouse. By pooling a […]

As the U.S. stock market has been breaking records in the past couple of years, so has the storage media industry—at least in terms of capacity. Samsung  said Feb. 20 that it has begun mass-producing its new 32-terabyte (rounded off from 30.72TB) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state storage drive, the world’s largest capacity to this […]

Infrastructure performance management software maker Virtual Instruments on Feb. 20 launched an enhanced and rebranded version of its Load DynamiX Enterprise storage-performance validation solution, calling it WorkloadWisdom. The company said that the new package is more tightly integrated with VirtualWisdom, its frontline app-centric infrastructure performance monitoring and analytics platform. The new WorkloadWisdom provides administrators with a scalable […]