Chris Preimesberger

Forrester Research put out some end-of-the-year data points Dec. 14. eWEEK thought we would share some of them with you. U.S. tech spending will reach $1.5 trillion in 2018. Forrester predicts that U.S. business and government tech spending will surpass $1.5 trillion in 2018, up nearly 6 percent from 2017. The increase is concentrated in […]

IBM had to do it. Oracle is in the process of doing it. Lots of other companies should have done it but couldn’t. We’re talking about vendors making the risky and often costly jump from a hardware-based IT business to one centered mostly on software sales, services, licensing and subscriptions. Most hardware companies are coming […]

DevOps and agile development, new-generation processes and techniques that work hand in hand in developing, testing and distributing software of all types, have been in the IT business news continually for about the last half-dozen years.  And there are good reasons why. We at eWEEK are constantly being pitched by thought leaders with new ideas […]

Micro Focus, whose shelves are already well-fortified with an eclectic list of software types ranging from COBOL to SUSE Linux to NetIQ, is adding a new one that handles compliance. The Sunnyvale, Calf.-based company Dec. 13 launched Digital Safe 10, which enables users to mitigate information-borne risk stemming from the current surge in regulatory, government […]

Data management takes up a wide swath of time, power and man-hours on a daily basis inside an IT system. It also can be the most complicated part of any IT system. Think I’m kidding? Take a look at QuinStreet’s Webopedia page on data management and see how many different components and/or subcategories there are […]

10 Apps That Improve Performance, Efficiency of Distributed Teams More and more employees are able to do their work from anywhere at any time. This enables a high level of flexibility, convenience and geographical coverage that benefits both employees and the companies for which they work. However, it can also make getting things done as […]

Marketing automation and analytics SaaS provider Heap on Dec. 12 set sail a new edition of its platform into a tank already full of highly competitive sharks in the customer insight analytics market. The 4-year-old company, which has grown organically and already claims more than 6,000 customers, launched what it calls “the industry’s first platform […]

The IoT (internet of things) networking equipment market has been a real thing for only a few (read that three or so) years, thus the sector is still in its infancy. As a result, there aren’t too many market research reports available yet describing it. To help allay this lack of information, Cisco Systems Research […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “Augmented reality and virtual reality, long the domains of fringe players in the IT and gaming worlds, will soon come into mainstream consumer usage and to enterprises to aid business production.” You probably stopped me. If you haven’t heard that prediction, you haven’t been paying attention. If you’ve […]

Alexa, Cortana, Einstein, Google, Siri, and Watson are fast becoming members of the family to us. They don’t exactly live and breathe, but they can still be quite chatty at times. We mostly control our computers and phones by pointing, clicking, swiping, poking and typing. But these interfaces are moving aside. Instead, we are interacting […]