Chris Preimesberger

Data protection and sync/share provider eFolder, which specializes in working with managed service providers, and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) provider Axcient revealed July 27 that they are merging. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Neither privately owned company would say which one actually bought the other, but since the company will be headquartered at […]

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. is focusing more of its corporate attention on improving data storage for ultra-high end computing systems. The Seattle-based company revealed July 26 that it has signed an agreement with Seagate creating a partnership around Seagate’s ClusterStor high-performance storage product line and spelling out how the two companies will collaborate on future ClusterStor […]

How GPU-Accelerated Databases Are Helping Advance Cognitive Computing Artificial intelligence has been around in different forms for decades, but only now is it truly coming of age. AI experiments have made it out of the lab and are now being deployed into the real world by leading technology companies. For example, Amazon has smarter buying […]

You might have seen an item in the news the other day about Facebook and Google’s ad revenues and how when put together they exceed all the other print and online advertising income of all publications in the world. Whether or not that statement is verified, it is still emblematic of the tremendous power these […]

Chinese technology maker Foxconn, one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world, revealed July 26 that it will invest $10 billion to create a state-of-the-art facility in southeast Wisconsin, Chairman Terry Gou said at a White House press event. Foxconn, which makes Apple’s iPhone and other products at its China-based factories, won’t make connected […]

Birst, a new-gen analytics platform for sourcing, refining and presenting standardized data insights at scale, at long last has been awarded a couple of patents after spending 12 years waiting for the U.S. Patent Office to complete its approval. San Francisco-based Birst, entering its third month as a new acquisition of Infor, told eWEEK exclusively […]

For those who want the security benefits of their own personal virtual private network (VPN) but are scared off by the idea of having to deal with such a techy thing, here is an alternative for you: AnchorFree. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company makes a popular freemium-based VPN called Hotspot Shield but shies away from […]

A Gift for SysAdmin Day: Tips to Make Your Lives Easier There’s a “day” for just about anyone—even system administrators. July 28 is SysAdmin Day. If you’re like most sysadmins, you’ve had a busy year. Between patching servers against WannaCry, calming your boss about the potential for more ransomware attacks and trying to get the […]

We all have our opinions–good, fair and not so good–about presentation software that we use all the time. The term “Death by PowerPoint” is normally considered a detrimental comment to the world’s most-utilized slide-deck presenter. On the other hand, it could be seen as a left-handed compliment. How can this be? Simple: Just being in […]

If Steve Jobs were here with us today, he’d undoubtedly yell: “At long last!” But he still wouldn’t be completely satisfied because this story doesn’t officially end for another three years. Adobe in a corporate blogpost announced July 25 that it will end support for its ubiquitous Flash Player at the end of 2020, effectively […]

Like all enterprises large or small, GE has had to change with the times or else fade into oblivion, which has been the fate of many a formerly successful company. In the second decade of the new century, the company is facing a pivot by adding machine learning and artificial intelligence software to its steady […]

LiveStories, a new integrated data hub provider in which users can find, explore and present publicly available data all in a web-based platform, announced the close of $10 million in a Series A venture capital round. Led by Ignition Partners with participation from True Ventures and Founders Co-Op, this brings LiveStories’ total funding to $13.9 […]