Chris Preimesberger

Dell EMC moved ahead with one of its most successful lines of business Nov. 7, introducing two new all-flash storage appliances, providing free software upgrades for Dell EMC Unity customers and offering a new “future-proof” storage loyalty program for midrange storage customers. The company continues to evolve its all-flash product line about every six to […]

Are U.S. enterprises way too cocky about whether they can handle a serious DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on their IT systems? A new report released Nov. 7 by global content delivery network and cloud security provider CDNetworks has found that a whopping 88 percent of U.S. businesses claim confidence in their current DDoS […]

Accenture, the $35 billion-per-year IT consulting company with more than 425,000 employees in 120 countries that influences just about all tech sectors, made a trio of announcements Nov. 7 at Dreamforce 2017 in San Francisco. The most important involved an expanded strategic alliance with Vlocity, an industry cloud provider that features omnichannel and industry-specific cloud and […]

Mobile enterprise file sharing and collaboration provider Accellion has added no-code-needed improvements that it claims enable better secured sharing capabilities in its Kiteworks content platform. By the way, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company wants to brand the platform as kiteworks (lower case), but that may be difficult for some customers and media outlets to remember […]

Live #eWeekChat: Nov. 8, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT On Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 11 a.m. PST / 2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 61st monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “The Lowdown on No- and Low-Code Development.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. […]

While many new software applications are aimed at line-of-business company employees who aren’t trained to write code, this news story is about something a bit more old-school: why expertise in cloud storage is necessary to use some new IBM object storage features. IBM’s Cloud Object Storage group on Nov. 6 unveiled three new functions: an […]

Data security provider Gemalto is making it pretty easy to deploy a new-gen enterprise security system: No hardware or software needed; just log in and get protected–and this includes encryption. The Amsterdam-based company on Nov. 6 launched a subscription service called SafeNet Data Protection On Demand, a centralized cloud-based services platform for companies to protect […]

Cloud storage software provider SwiftStack on Oct. 31 upgraded its capabilities for public cloud archiving, synchronization and multi-region data management in the latest version of its frontline product. “I know that object storage is the category we’ve been put into, but I’d love if we were put into the emerging category of “multicloud data management” […]

Solid-state storage hardware and software provider Pure Storage on Nov. 1 released a new Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for SAP systems. The tool enables users to automate an entire SAP database copy, clone and refresh processes that include database, pre- and post-copy tasks–processes that can take several days. This is parallel to what Delphix does […]

How One University Uses Low-Code Development to Speed Up Its Processes No- and low-code software development is rapidly gaining traction because it enables non-IT employees to quickly build and tune specialized applications. IT staffs love the freedom this brings. This slide show is an example of how this works: Serving nearly 48,000 students every year, […]