Chris Preimesberger

TIBCO Software, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based enterprise data management company that does everything from data mining, to cloud services, to analytics, to graph databases, said May 15 that it will acquire Statistica, a provider of data science prep and presentation software. Terms of the transaction were not released. The acquisition will bolster TIBCO’s analytics product […]

11 Simple Yet Important Tips to Secure AWS Deployments With cloud security constantly improving and the volume of data growing exponentially, companies of all sizes are increasingly migrating applications and workloads to the cloud. In fact, Gartner Research recently predicted that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow from $209 billion in 2016 to […]

Cloud infrastructure security startup RedLock launched itself and its first product May 9 with a cloud-based infrastructure security offering aimed at overcoming challenges faced by any company with an IT department. So that’s pretty much everybody. RedLock’s Cloud 360 platform enables enterprises to manage security and compliance risks across their entire public-cloud infrastructure–but without impeding […]

Eight Essential Boxes to Check for Managing Analytics Data Pipeline Enterprises of every type are updating their IT in order to use data more efficiently. While the importance of analytics and business intelligence for successfully operating a company is no longer in question, the right data management processes are important to providing accurate and reliable […]

Red Flags to Consider When Moving From Mainframe to an Open System When it comes to mainframe systems, the decision to remain competitive is easier said than done. For example, the proprietary nature of older Unisys and other mainframes is incompatible with current software applications that could increase productivity and profitability. This incompatibility leads to […]

Yahoo often doesn’t get enough credit for the contributions it has sent to the open source community during the past decade or so. Besides the original development of Hadoop a dozen years ago, Yahoo has been an active participant in projects such as those listed on the company’s Github page, in various Apache Software Foundation […]

On Wednesday, May 10, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 55th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Messaging and Bots: Will They Kill Mobile Apps?” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK‘s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Messaging and Bots: Will They Kill Mobile […]

LAS VEGAS—VMware and Google revealed May 9 that they are expanding a relatively quiet partnership with the goal of accelerating the adoption of Chromebook laptops. You didn’t know VMware was getting into the notebook business? You’re not the only one, although it does make a modicum of sense that the world’s virtualization king would get […]

7 Business Sectors Most Ripe for Disruption Through Data Analytics Industrial sectors such as construction, rail, aviation and energy are swimming in data, much of which comes off sensors on machinery and infrastructure. Yet most of this data isn’t utilized to its full potential. While data science has been used in the industrial sector for […]

LAS VEGAS—Dell and EMC, which legally and finally joined forces last September as a privately held corporation following a full year of sorting out product lines, dropping redundant divisions and agreeing on legal fine print, are staging their first fully unified conference this week here at the Sands Expo. There were previously two Dell EMC […]

You may have seen the recent polling data that rates Comcast, the nation’s second-largest cable-television provider behind AT&T with 22.4 million subscribers, as one of the most hated companies in the country. This isn’t exactly a CX (customer experience) all-star, when ranked just behind Bank of America and ahead of Walmart and United Airlines. Well, […]

Two popular consumer cloud services, Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor, are merging to form a new publicly traded (Nasdaq) company, ANGI Homeservices Inc., but users of both services won’t know the difference. The combined business, which will maintain both Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor brands, plans to scale up big time to match more homeowners with service […]