Chris Preimesberger

San Francisco-based cloud storage and file-sharing provider Dropbox has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a Jan. 11 Bloomberg News report. This is not a surprise to IT industry watchers. Dropbox has been rumored to be going public for at least five years, and it looks like management is now serious about […]

Facebook has tinkered with the way your personal News Feed serves up items in your account. As of Jan. 11, it now prioritizes and places news and other items from people already in your network ahead of items from brands and publishers—never mind the potential importance of out-of-network news items. The social network will use […]

If machines themselves do not replace humans in doing a lot of jobs in the future, chatbots probably will. A chatbot is an artificial intelligence-powered piece of software in a device (Siri, Alexa, for example), application, website or other network that attempts to find out what a consumer wants, then serves as a traffic cop […]

Now that cloud services are a key to the “new normal” way enterprises are doing business, backing up data in safe, accessible cloud storage is the most common use case for new-gen IT systems. For IT managers looking for an alternative method of cloud backup, cloud data platform provider SoftNAS Jan. 10 announced that its […]

Polaroid is going back to the future at CES 2018 with a colorful exhibit called Polaroid Originals that showcases the glory that the company owned in the 1960s and ‘70s with its instant, one-of-a-kind photo machine. This year’s CES marks the first immersive Polaroid Originals experience. Available for demonstrations in booth #16615 in Central Hall […]

As it has for a number of years, consumer technology innovation has been teaching enterprise IT some real lessons in moving the IT needle from “fun” to “functional.” Look at all the innovations created by consumer-tech vendors that are now standards in business IT: PCs (remember, they started as “personal” computers), smartphones, tablets, touchscreens, high-definition […]

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 […]

On Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Plowing the IoT Greenfield in 2018.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Plowing the IoT Greenfield in 2018” Date/time: Jan. 10, […]

Eight Tips to Protecting Your Organization’s Sensitive Data From Theft A combination of poor password hygiene and countless database/credential leaks has made it easy for cyber-criminals to get their hands on important enterprise data, such as usernames and passwords. When it comes to protecting serious data—such as intellectual property, software source code, CAD files and […]

Cisco Systems, which famously predicted a couple of years ago that 79 percent of all internet traffic will involve video by 2020, is demonstrating this week at CES in Las Vegas some new use cases for cloud-powered, app-driven video services, ranging from cloud DVR (digital video recording) to OTT (over-the-top) video and mobile- experiences. Analysts […]