Chris Preimesberger

You may or may not know that despite the fact some 30 million people are out of work right now in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are an estimated 1 million IT-related jobs going unfilled, and companies are typically having a hard time finding the right candidates for many of them.  The tech […]

When one thinks about all the connections a digital document, log, image or other set of data must traverse in moving from a server to another server and eventually to a storage location, we don’t know the half of it. Most times the number of virtual handshakes and handoffs are many more than we ever […]

IT has become pivotal for any company looking to thrive in this era of social distancing. Reducing cloud costs quickly could be the solution to not only surviving, but possibly thriving. organizations might find the best opportunity for that in the most unlikely of places – the operating system. IT finds itself in the driver’s […]

Today: Cloudian (new-gen object storage and data protection) Ironically, though “cloud” is the foundation for the name of Cloudian, it is primarily an on-premises physical storage-making company. Cloudian is a Silicon Valley-based file and object storage maker, specializing in AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)-compatible object storage systems, that was officially launched in 2011 by CEO Michael Tso […]

Not too many companies actually come out and say something like this, but Delphix, which originated the DataOps school of new-gen data management, has declared completed the original mission it undertook a decade ago when it launched its first product. That mission was to provide a full-service data platform to accelerate digital and customer-experience transformation for […]

On Tuesday, June 9, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 87th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Data Storage, Protection in a Hypersensitive Era.” It will be moderated by eWEEK Editor Chris Preimesberger. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat, June 9: “Data Storage, Protection in a Hypersensitive Era”   Date/time: Tuesday, […]

If any concept defines our new-gen digital age, it’s collaboration. The ability for groups to communicate and work together is vital for companies to compete. A key aspect of collaboration revolves around sharing content, which becomes more complicated to use by the day. As a result, content collaboration platforms play an increasingly important role in […]

The appearance of Dell’s newest big power-yet-little-size laptop, the XPS 13 (13 inches is the size of the screen), belies the power and punch it packs inside its elegant skin. At first glance, it has the look of a basic workday notebook with maybe 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, but not so. Although […]

Graph databases are now clearly riding the upward trend toward mainstream adoption for which the sector has been waiting for several years. Much like the cloud in its early period from 1998 (they were called ASPs–application service providers–back then) to 2012, the speedy search database is picking up buyer after buyer when they try it […]

It’s been exactly two years since the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was put into force by the European Union on May 25, 2018.  eWEEK has covered the genesis, institution and passage of this pioneering international data privacy law since long before that date became a milestone in data protection and privacy history. Take […]

A couple of major-league IT players, Dell Technologies and Google Cloud, this week partnered to launch Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud. This is a bold attempt to assist enterprises as they move to control exponential data and application growth and smooth the flow of logs, files, images and other content across their private […]

Business collaboration tools have never been more integral to enterprises than they are today, due to the worldwide COVID-19 pneumonia pandemic, which to date has infected nearly 5 million people and killed nearly 500,000 (93,000 in the United States to date) in a span of about five months. Workers have been forced to operate from […]