Chris Preimesberger

You know this had to happen sooner or later: You can now share a truck, similar to ZipCar and other vehicle-sharing services. This is particularly timely this week. Truxx, the truck-sharing app that connects people who drive a truck with those who need one, is one of 130 companies to be inducted by StartupGrind to […]

Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of infrastructure software maker Accelerite, told eWEEK recently that “AI isn’t just a hype; thinking machines will rule our lives–but perhaps not literally.” He appears to be on the right track. Look at what Siri, Cortana, Google and Alexa are doing for us more and more all the time. Look at how […]

Perhaps the biggest international data protection issue this year will be that the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into effect on May 25. As Datos IO Vice-President Peter Smails told eWEEK: “Data-aware data management becomes table stakes in 2018. The GDPR is the most sweeping change to data protection in the past […]

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

Comtrade Software, which makes monitoring and data protection solutions for hyperconverged infrastructures, has hooked up with ExaGrid, a provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, in a new partnership to offer a backup-application-to-backup-storage solution for Nutanix. Early last year, Comtrade launched its HYCU platform, which is purpose-built data storage protection for Nutanix servers. In recent […]

Even though it’s a tad difficult to break into a market already loaded with business workplace productivity platforms made by Cisco Systems, Polycom, High Five and a slew of others, Prysm isn’t shying away from the competition. The San Jose, Calif.-based workplace software and hardware maker at the ISE 2018 (Integrated Systems Europe) conference this […]

New-generation information technology continues to offer more efficiencies for small and midsize businesses, and for those ready to take a leap and invest in these fast new tools and services, 2018 promises to be a good year. So what exactly are the top technology trends for small businesses? Well, basically anything that a large enterprise needs […]

Cloud management provider Rubrik revealed Feb. 6 that it will acquire Datos IO, a rising developer of backup and recovery software for cloud-native NoSQL databases and big data file systems. Terms of the transaction were not released. Datos IO, which came out of stealth only 2 ½ years ago, built its reputation as a data […]

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

When you’re watching Super Bowl LII (52) today on television—and you probably are, because the nosebleed tickets were going for $2,900 and the high was 5 degrees in Minneapolis—you  aren’t likely to be thinking about the science of lighting up the inside of U.S. Bank Stadium. But you should. On your high-definition screen (whether TV, […]