Chris Preimesberger

On Wednesday, July 12, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 57th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “The Rise of the Chief Data Officer and Its Importance to Enterprises.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “The Rise of […]

Virtual desktop infrastructures have their place within certain enterprise IT systems, and when one decides to get specific about what type of VDI to deploy, then there are two main choices: thin client or zero client. Over the years, thin clients have taken most of the business, through vendors such as Dell Wyse, HP, Citrix […]

Features to Look for in an Efficient Hybrid Cloud Management Platform  The plethora of options around selecting a cloud management platform has made it more complicated to select the right system for an enterprise. Making the right decision is critical to the success of any organization’s hybrid cloud endeavor. While some features are important for certain portions of their […]

As GE, IBM, Comcast, Verizon, Cisco Systems, AT&T, Honeywell and a dozen other huge, well-established corporations begin to scope out their portions in the next IT greenfield of opportunity—the internet of things—there’s a little, 300-person company already standing out there with its own stake in the ground. That company is C3 IoT, and it’s located […]

Some companies don’t always get the public credit they deserve for contributing to the open source community software and tools that can enable other developers to move their own projects along quicker and more efficiently. Companies such as Facebook, Google and others are famous for giving back to the software community valuable code, tools and […]

American Airlines, which knows as much about clouds as anyone, will soon be riding IBM’s into the IT friendly skies. The old-school (formed in 1930) and world’s largest passenger carrier said June 28 that it will use IBM Cloud—Big Blue is now moving away from the BlueMix Cloud branding—as the foundation for an IT changeover […]

NAND flash storage maker Tegile Systems, which has rebranded itself as a provider of persistent-memory storage solutions for databases and containerized environments, on June 29 released its next-generation flagship flash storage platform. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company said its newest IntelliFlash HD enables enterprises to take advantage of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) without needing the system […]

A Look at How Tech IPO Class of 2014 Is Performing Now 2014 was a big year for tech initial public stock offerings. There were an astounding 273 IPOs in all—the most active period since 406 companies went public in 2000. Of those, 55 were technology companies—up 22 percent from 2013. Businesses such as Five9, […]

Artificial intelligence is not only moving into family rooms and kitchens (Alexa, Google), cars, enterprise applications and mobile devices. It’s also using the internet of things to move into the remote conferencing business. Boston-based Owl Labs has launched something called the Meeting Owl, a plug-and-play video conferencing product for collaborative teams. It features a 360° […]

Cloud software maker Nutanix on June 28 introduced a new operating system, Nutanix Calm, based on its hyperconverged infrastructure software that can unify public and private clouds under a common hybrid cloud computing architecture. The San Jose, Calif.-based company made the announcement at its .NEXT 2017 conference in Washington, D.C. While its products sound fairly […]

Turns out Cirba liked the name of its new product, Densify, so much that it is changing its corporate branding over to it. Hopefully some product manager will find a bonus in his/her paycheck, because it probably wasn’t in the job description to rename the company. The Toronto-based software company, which provides analytics for storage […]

Application management newcomer appOrbit (lower-case “a” is correct), started up by former IBM and VMware engineers, came out of stealth June 26 brandishing a new container-based platform that it claims can automate the modeling, delivery and management of enterprise software onto any modern infrastructure. The 3-year-old San Jose, Calif.-based startup says its runtime environment can […]