Chris Preimesberger

How Hackers Make Big Bucks Stealing, Selling Personal Information Personal information was stolen 30 times a minute in 2016. While people are becoming more aware that failing to properly password-protect access to sensitive digital materials can have severe consequences, many are still in the dark. The damage of having one’s identity stolen or having financial […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There’s a lot of hot new storage tech being introduced and demoed at this year’s Flash Memory Summit. And some of it is literally too hot to handle. Innodisk’s corporate booth, located adjacent to Seagate’s, caught fire early in the morning Aug. 8, spreading smoke all through the Santa Clara Convention […]

Off the top, it sounds simple enough: You have one big, fast server processing an artificial-intelligence-related, big data workload. Then the requirements change; much more data needs to be added to the process to get the project done in a reasonable span of time. Logic says that all you need to do is add more […]

How to Identify and Prevent Overspending on Cloud Software Organizations will spend a whopping $119 billion on cloud software in 2017, according to recent Forrester research. This represents a 23 percent increase over 2016, and there are no signs of this spending slowing down. As we move into an era where cloud spend will begin […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 58th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Trends in DevOps and Agile Development.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Trends in DevOps and Agile Development” Date/time: Aug. 9, […]

In the world of DevOps and agile development, West has met East: South San Francisco DevOps solutions provider CollabNet and Atlanta-based agile software integrator VersionOne are now one business entity. Terms of the merger transaction announced Aug. 7 were not released. The newly combined company immediately claimed that it will offer the industry’s “most complete” […]

Tricentis, which provides continuous testing and software test automation and is designed specifically for the DevOps way of doing app development, said Aug. 2 that it has acquired Flood IO, a flexible and scalable on-demand load testing solution. Flood’s technology frees load testing from resource-intensive performance labs and “shifts it left” with a simplified and […]

When it comes to new-gen facial recognition software for identification and security purposes, the eyes definitely have it. Conduent, Xerox’s former services business that split off and went public in January and brings in upwards of $6 billion in yearly revenue, has been awarded a U.S. patent for facial recognition intellectual property that gets most […]

The former Hewlett-Packard Co., known for generations as simply HP, has been reconfiguring itself so often during the past few years that it sometimes takes a few minutes to remember what acronyms and corporate functions have gone where. Fifteen years ago, HP bought Compaq computer’s PC business, floated the idea of spinning it off in […]

SAN FRANCISCO–For decades, conventional enterprise IT has been based upon loading data into storage arrays to make it available for applications inside servers, so that workloads could be processed and business as usual conducted. But with the current data deluge clogging up networks and filling up storage capacities, the movement of digital bits is getting […]

Eight Ways Companies Are Using No-Code Apps to Improve Efficiency No-code software development, also known as citizen development, has returned as a real trend. According to Forrester, the low-code market will reach $15 billion by 2020. Modern workers—whether at small businesses or large enterprises—are going a step further, turning to completely no-code platforms to quickly […]

Data automation management specialist Primary Data, whose claim to fame is as creator of the world’s first enterprise metadata storage engine, revealed Aug. 2 that it has raised a total of $40 million in its second round of funding. The funding includes a $20 million investment with participation from Pelion Venture Partners, Accel, Battery Ventures […]