Chris Preimesberger

How to Choose a Data Warehouse That Is the Right Fit for Your Company Successful businesses depend on a steady stream of high-quality decisions. An enterprise data warehouse can provide the core infrastructure that fosters smart decisions across a company and its extended value chain. Specifically, a data warehouse is critical to the growth of […]

A respected industry researcher in the global graphics and multimedia markets on Dec. 29 released its annual review of GPU (graphics processing units) developments, and the results indicate good things for the year past and for 2018. Despite an overall slowdown in worldwide sales of PCs, PC-based GPUs sales–which include workstations–have been increasing, Jon Peddie […]

This is the latest article in a new occasional 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 […]

We’ve published a list of “prediction” articles here in eWEEK during the last few weeks as 2018 bears down upon us. We’ve touched on about 16 categories, including software, storage, cloud, IoT, artificial intelligence and others. Oh yes, we’ve also touched on key security trends to expect in 2018, compiled by our Sean Michael Kerner. […]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aren’t anything new; they’ve been around for decades. The public at large, however, has only become aware of them since the internet became mainstream in the mid-’90s. Since then, DDoS incidents have gone ballistic, with attacks reaching a size and scale never before seen.  [For the record: A DDoS hit is […]

Location data–not to mention lots of other types of information–is what more and more enterprises are collecting for their analytics engines, so they can better understand where their customers are and perhaps they’re going to want to buy next. Boundless, a 5-year-old server maker which specializes in open GIS (geographic information systems) for the enterprise, […]

If you’re a regular eWEEK reader, you’ll know that we’ve been running a long series of “Predictions 2018” articles all month, and we enjoy doing them. All of us like to find out what’s coming from the future via experts whose perspectives are undoubtedly better than our own. In doing this series, we’re reflecting the […]

Cloud infrastructure and DevOps tool maker HashiCorp has released the next generation of its Terraform Enterprise platform for provisioning cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure using a consistent workflow. The new features of Terraform Enterprise enable collaboration among practitioners using HashiCorp Terraform and provide governance and policy management capabilities with HashiCorp’s Sentinel policy as code framework. More […]

Other World Computing, also known as Macsales.com and which prides itself on being a zero emissions Mac and PC product company, will introduce and demonstrate a new line of Thunderbolt 3-integrated devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, set for several locations during the week of Jan. 8. OWC’s management team and founder/CEO Larry O’Connor will attend […]

We all know buzz phrases such as “digital transformation, “paradigm shift,” “market disruption” and others. You also know buzz acronyms–or, if you will, “buzznyms.” These include B2B, M&A, ASAP, FYI, LOL and so on. CX, standing for “customer experience,” is a recent one. It sometimes goes by UX (user experience). This is our topic for […]