Chris Preimesberger

Not-so-good quarterly earnings reports are becoming a regular happening at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The venerable IT pioneer again reported a steep drop in quarterly revenue from its frontline enterprise hardware business, the one that that makes and markets server, networking and storage hardware–in other words, the most important items it sells worldwide. In its Q2 […]

Eight Ways CSOs Can Prepare For European Union GDPR Compliance Believing the misconception that compliance and security are the same can have a significant negative impact on an organization’s security program—and on its business overall. The European Union’s General Protection Data Regulation (GPPR), set to take effect in May 2018 and will impact any organization that does business […]

Newcomer StreamSets, which makes what it calls the industry’s first enterprise data operations platform, told eWEEK May 31 that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding, led by venture capital firms Accel Partners, Battery Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The funding will aid StreamSets in continuing to in help enterprises manage their data […]

Uber has fired its vice president of technology, Anthony Levandowski, amid a nasty legal battle with Waymo over his alleged theft of self driving-car trade secrets. Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, figured something was amiss in January 2016, when Levandowski secretly downloaded 14,000 pages of documents, quit his job and went out the […]

At the Computex conference in Taipei May 30, Intel introduced a new lineup of processors that specifically targets the high-end desktop PC market, a sector in which the company hasn’t showed much interest previously. This is a pivot of sorts. The general manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group, Gregory Bryant, told attendees at the conference […]

Supply-chain data analytics provider GrandCanals has had a big week, launching a new version of its specialized cloud and closing a $4.8 million Series A financing round. The venture capital initiative was led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners and AllMobile Fund. The new funding, announced May 16, is aimed at fueling the company’s growth via […]

Global cybersecurity provider Forcepoint, which focuses much of its expertise on insider threats in enterprise security, has released new cloud-based functionality for its platform aimed at improving the secure adoption and deployment of cloud applications. Forcepoint’s new software, released May 25, protects enterprise and government employees alongside business data and IP at all times and […]

Cloud automation and managed services provider Logicworks is now offering users a fast track to infrastructure-as-code in the Amazon Web Services cloud with new tools it released for general availability on May 25. Infrastructure-as-code is another way to describe IaaS, or infrastructure-as-a-service, which has become a huge trend since the cloud went mainstream for a […]

Intel, the world’s largest computer processor maker, isn’t particularly known as a global leader in shipping solid-state flash storage disks. That’s always been market territory Samsung, WD SanDisk, Micron and Toshiba have owned. But markets are changing, as they tend to do everywhere. DRAMeXchange, a division of global market analyst TrendForce, reported May 25 that […]

As the IoT economy begins to take shape, the security of all those new devices that will be collecting and shipping data to servers in the cloud is becoming a huge product-making focus for companies new and old. Basically, each new device in the field becomes an additional attack surface for hackers, so therein lies […]

Cloud-based services provider Rackspace revealed May 25 that it is acquiring enterprise application management software maker TriCore Solutions, which owns particular expertise in enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions from Oracle and SAP. Financial details were not disclosed, although San Antonio-based Rackspace said the transaction is the largest in its history. The deal comes less than a year […]

Nine Design, Implementation Factors for Modern Enterprise Storage Enterprises that want to stay ahead of the curve now require data storage that delivers high performance, scalability and always-on availability in order to keep up with increasing data-movement speed demands. Not only that, in the current hyper-connected, data-driven world, organizations must overcome the challenges associated with […]