Chris Preimesberger

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. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat Nov. 8: “The Lowdown on No- and Low-Code Development” […]

Today we’re talking about a different Segment, a name that signifies a customer data platform company–not a piece of any market. The San Francisco-based startup has introduced something that may someday displace your standard CRM (customer relationship management) app. Personas, which uses analytics liberally, is a new product in the works (coming out early next […]

Cisco Systems has known for a long time that it’s needed to move into new segments of IT because the internet plumbing business is eventually going to saturate the markets and start to wane. So, in addition to the data center hardware equipment sector and a deeper dive into security products, the world’s largest internet […]

Because artificial intelligence everywhere is such a trend in 2017, it had to happen at some point that a storage hardware maker would optimize a new product specifically for AI workloads. Seagate Technology is that company. The Cupertino, Calif.-based storage device maker on Oct. 30 introduced its SkyHawk AI hard disk drive, the first drive […]

Three of the largest advertising companies in the world–Facebook, Twitter and Google–will testify before Congressional investigators Oct. 31 to answer questions about the roles their networks played in distributing false, misleading and politically provocative ads and other editorial material during the 2016 presidential election. The Washington Post reported Oct. 30 that Facebook will tell U.S. […]

Sumo Logic’s Top Enterprise Cloud Technology Trends as 2018 Approaches Progressive enterprises strive to deliver high-performance, highly scalable and always-on digital services. These services are built on custom “modern architectures”—an application stack with new tiers, technologies and microservices that typically run on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud […]

NoSQL database and data management software maker Couchbase doesn’t put out a new version of its frontline product very often, but when it does, it’s a substantial one. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on Oct. 26 released—for the first time in two-and-a-half years—a new edition of its Couchbase Data Platform along with the general availability […]

Cygilant explains its mission with an unusual name. It is a combination of “cyber” and “vigilant,” so one can ascertain with a fair amount of accuracy what it does. Specifically, Cygilant provides security as a cloud-based service; it added to its product line Oct. 24 by launching a new combined vulnerability and patch management subscription […]

It was inevitable that these three IT trends were going to conjoin at some point: the industrial internet of things (IIoT), the user experience (UX) on mobile devices and no-code development. After all, users of software in any genre want to have a fruitful experience, or else why bother? With this in mind, Los Angeles-based […]

Microsoft stock was up more than 4 percent to nearly $82 in after-hours trading Oct. 26 after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for Q1 of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. Revenue was cited at $24.54 billion against $23.56 billion projected by Thomson Reuters analysts. Earnings per share was 84 cents versus an […]