Chris Preimesberger

While the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Congress have been busy loosening regulations regarding net neutrality—an issue upon which so many people on both sides disagree—Cisco Systems is also involved in unlocking connectivity of the enterprise networking equipment kind. The world’s largest internet pipeline maker on Jan. 8 announced a new, highly flexible DOCSIS […]

New IT market data released Jan. 4 by Synergy Research Group shows that across six key cloud services and infrastructure market segments, operator and vendor revenues for the four quarters ending September 2017 reached $180 billion, having grown by 24 percent on an annualized basis. IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a […]

When it comes to the design and “look and feel” of business and consumer-class personal computers, Apple has set a high bar during the last decade with its MacBook lineup. Hewlett-Packard Inc. has been upgrading its own fleet of business and consumer PCs over the last half-dozen years with its EliteBooks and Envys and has […]

5 Lessons Cyber-Security Chiefs Can Learn From Warren Buffett In 2017, organizations invested $86.4 billion in technologies designed to protect their data—a figure that is double what it was less than five years ago. Meanwhile, it seems like nearly every other week, there’s a new wave of headlines reporting on the latest major security attack. […]

IT industry authority Synergy Research Group reported Jan. 4 that across six key enterprise infrastructure hardware segments, vendor revenues for the last four quarters increased by nearly 3 percent. Aggregate revenues for the calendar year 2017 reached $113 billion, with revenue in each of the last 12 quarters typically in the $26 billion to $29 […]

New data from Synergy Research Group released Jan. 3 revealed that the total value of significant data center-oriented merger/acquisition transactions that closed in 2017 reached $20 billion, far surpassing the total for 2015 and 2016 combined. Entering 2018, there are also four additional major deals that have been agreed upon but not yet closed, with […]

A lot of people don’t think about or realize this, but both the thin/zero-client computer sector and Hewlett-Packard Inc.’s involvement in it are non-trivial market components. There are still a large number of enterprises that utilize hard drive-less PC terminals running on centralized IT systems in verticals all over the globe, and HPI continues to […]

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 […]

San Francisco-based startup Splice Machine, which has developed a database management system specifically for hybrid clouds, has launched its own Online Predictive Processing Platform (OLPP) for powering the new generation of predictive applications that run both on premises and in clouds. The 5-year-old company also revealed that it has raised an additional $9 million from […]

Hardly a day went by in the second half of 2017 without news of sexual harassment allegations aimed at politicians, actors, entertainment moguls, business executives and men in other high positions. The constant stream of these news stories has brought new awareness of the problem to the public. Women are now coming forward with information […]