Scot Petersen

LAS VEGAS–For Hewlett-Packard, it seems, breaking up really isn’t that hard to do after all. First of all, it’s actually happening. The new Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and the consumer PC and printer company HP Inc. are going to be operationally separated on Aug. 1, right on schedule, officials said this week at the HP Discover 2015 […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—There was a lot of news that came out of the OpenStack Summit, held here last week. New products, reference implementations and application interface announcements were plentiful. The best news, however, was that there were other hot technologies that everybody wanted to talk about, particularly Docker, Kubernetes and other container technologies. Among the […]

LAS VEGAS—Some companies are always going to be identified with their original or core technology. With Microsoft, it’s Windows; for IBM its mainframes; and Oracle will always be known for its relational databases, even though those companies make billions of dollars selling other types of products. EMC, for that matter, has always been a “storage” […]

LAS VEGAS—Discussions about software-defined networking at Interop last week ranged from “SDN rules!” to “What is SDN again?” More than once the answer to the question about what separates one SDN solution from another was, “you tell me.” It’s odd that software-defined networking has been around for so long (at least in Internet time), yet […]

LAS VEGAS—It seems that ever since Malcolm Gladwell published his book The Tipping Point, the technology world has seen many, well, tipping points. I heard the phrase a lot last week at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) annual conference and expo here—that the broadcasting, news and entertainment industries are at a tipping point. But […]

The last time I wrote a column for the pages of eWEEK.com, the iPhone had not been released yet and what we now know as cloud computing was barely a twinkle in Jeff Bezos’ eye. It’s good to be back. Much has changed in the past almost-10 years, technology-wise. That’s obvious. What has not changed […]

OS/2 lives. The erstwhile Windows desktop challenger is due to be shelved within a few years, but copies are still available, and IBM continues to maintain existing installations. Despite its inevitable demise, enterprise users, especially in the financial services and insurance industries, continue to rely on the platform for running business-critical applications. Breathing new life […]

BOSTON-One could start calling it the NDA-National Data Association. At the NBA Finals with the Boston Celtics against the Los Angeles Lakers, data is playing a key position. While the National Basketball Association’s Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol are putting on “the show” on the hardwood, there’s a sophisticated data infrastructure […]

With eWEEKs offices in the process of moving down the block and the new space not quite ready, many of us here have been working from our home offices. In fact, this entire issue of eWeek was written, edited, designed and shipped to the printer in a virtual environment. This was my first extended telecommuting […]

You had to see this one coming. I had a feeling when I wrote on Sept. 18 that “Dell 2.0,” a plan to get the computer maker back on track with a renewed focus on the customer, was a desperate attempt by then-CEO Kevin Rollins to reverse the downward trends in Dells finances and customer […]

Its really finally here. After an interminable period of development, testing, release candidates, release to manufacturing and an event to release Vista to businesses and OEMs, the rest of the world will be able to get its hands on the newest version of Windows following the Jan. 29 launch party in New York. Vista, which […]

Just another data theft? The news on Jan. 18 that retailer TJX Companies fell victim to a security breach that could involve millions of customers credit information didnt exactly shake up the world. Wall Street barely noticed, as the $13 billion companys stock price was down just 9 cents as of this writing. News reports […]