Chris Preimesberger

What to Consider When Deciding if Private Cloud Is Right for Your Firm Many CIOs and CTOs of large enterprises are attracted to the single-tenant (or private cloud) environment. They may believe that a dedicated deployment model offers new opportunities for customization and integration that are not possible with a public or shared cloud. They […]

Enterprises updating their IT to ride the growing trend called digital transformation are finding out more often than not that this is hardly a slam-dunk proposition. These IT overhauls necessarily include the insertion of new analytics and/or machine-learning capabilities that help the enterprise figure out where it is in the current market, how it can […]

Cisco Systems, deciding to board the hyperconverged infrastructure market train going into 2018, revealed Aug. 21 that it plans to acquire HCI software provider Springpath for $320 million. The transaction is expected to close later this quarter, the company said. Springpath, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a new-generation distributed file system specifically for hyperconverged […]

Publications such as eWEEK receive scores of industry surveys and other market research each month in our email boxes. Most of them have value and help us and our readers to understand trends in various sectors of the IT world. On the other hand, some of them are self-serving, performed by a reputable research firm […]

10 Reasons Why Video Is Surpassing Chat as a Key Collaboration Tool Often the best ideas come to people outside the conference room. Inspiration doesn’t care about your schedule. It will appear in the break room, on a coffee run, even over the weekend. But as the workforce becomes more distributed, teams are losing these […]

Why Object Storage Is Coming of Age in the Big Data Era If IT were a television show, it would be “Hoarders.” Organizations are creating and storing more and more data every day. According to research by IDC, by 2020 total data volumes will hit a mind-boggling 44 zettabytes, with about 80 percent of the […]

For more than three decades, Oracle was all about all-Oracle, all the time. There were myriad restrictions: Oracle required you to buy their hardware in order to run Oracle software; only Oracle’s middleware worked with its apps; you needed certain kinds of support that only Oracle offered—unless you took a calculated gamble and went off […]

Kaseya, which specializes in network monitoring software for managed service providers (MSPs) and mid-market enterprises (MME), has updated its Traverse network monitoring and management platform. The latest version of Traverse, announced Aug. 8 but becoming available later this quarter, is a unified monitoring package that features automated, real-time insights into the performance of hybrid IT […]

It’s poetic serendipity that a man named Dr. Goh (pronounced “go”) is a principal in a project that will send an experimental new-gen computer go-go-going far, far away aboard a SpaceX rocket early next week. On Aug. 14, the SpaceX-12, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sending a Dragon spacecraft […]

Oracle appears to be on a serious DevOps/agile development track, churning out new cloud-based apps on an increasingly fast scale as the company continues to make the transition to become more of a cloud-based vendor. The database, data center hardware and software-as-a-service giant released a flotilla of new capabilities and enhancements to cloud apps in […]

Facebook not only has its users’ complete attention for news, social networking, games, instant messaging, email, video streaming and a dozen other use cases, it now wants their time in front of ads as a television network. The world’s largest social network, which has been envious of YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo and other video providers for […]

Dropbox said Aug. 10 that its mobile application now can function as a backup way for users to confirm their identity with two-factor authentication, especially if the user is out of cell range. This takes place when user logs in to his or her Dropbox account. When signing in, a user can send a notification to […]