Chris Preimesberger

Why CIOs Need to Stay on Top of These Eight Trends in 2018 This has been a transformative year for the digital enterprise in more ways than one. This changeover is expected to continue into 2018 as organizations try to meet escalating consumer expectations in our on-demand economy. To satisfy their needs, it is critical […]

By next spring, Margaret C. Whitman, known internationally as Meg, won’t have to worry about the day-to-day business of a major IT corporation anymore. At least not for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. During HPE’s quarterly report to analysts and investors Nov. 21, the board chairman and chief executive officer revealed that she will be […]

Heading fast into 2018, it’s pretty much a lock that voice-enabled artificial intelligence and natural language control of devices and software is where it’s all headed—whether it involves a vehicle, a living room or walking down the street with a phone. Now we can add “in an office.” At the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2017 […]

As worldwide demand for storage, servers, networking and mobile devices continues to skyrocket in order for enterprises and consumers to handle larger and more complex workloads, the semiconductor industry and all its supplies are seeing their businesses boom commensurately. Semiconductor industry analyst TrendForce reported Nov. 29 that the global revenue for semiconductor foundries is expected […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Talk about going “all in,” and fast. Western Digital, the storage hardware artist formerly known as WD, boldly predicted Nov. 28 that it is going to sell more than 1 billion new RISC-V core processors within the next two years. RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction-set computing architecture based on established reduced […]

SnapLogic, which specializes in a hard-to-do-well segment–self-service application and data integration–has unveiled its fall 2017 product release. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, housed safely in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration as a Platform, added improvements to its Enterprise Integration Cloud that include new and updated pre-built intelligent connectors, called Snaps. These enable users to more […]

Enterprise collaboration tools can be a huge and messy operation to administer and monitor. Because there are so many competitors in this market and that employees already come into a job with their favorite tools, most companies find themselves using multiple platforms for conferencing and collaboration tasks. These include chat, email, videoconferencing, messaging, streaming video […]

As time and IT innovation move on, we’re seeing more and more clouds for specific purposes. These are clouds for verticals that include retail, health care, financial services and science projects. But they also are aimed at specific jobs, such as video processing, genome tracking, oil and gas exploration and others. As of Nov. 28, […]

Eight Reasons Why Chatbot Technology Isn’t Ready for Commercial Use In about three years, most people will be having more conversations with bots than with their spouses, according to Gartner Research. However, there are experts who believe that chatbots in their current state aren’t quite ready for serious business relationships. In this eWEEK slideshow, Stephen […]

Comtrade Software, which has hitched its fortunes to that of hyperconverged systems powerhouse Nutanix, is now reaching out to offer new support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. Earlier this year, Comtrade launched its HYCU platform, which is purpose-built data storage protection for Nutanix servers. On Nov. 27, the Boston-based company said its […]