Chris Preimesberger

About

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

How Newcomer Anjuna Is Closing an Old Data Security Gap

When one thinks about all the connections a digital document, log, image or other set of data must traverse in moving from a server to another server and eventually to a storage location, we don’t know the half of it. Most times the number of virtual handshakes and handoffs are many more than we ever […]

How IT Can Help Businesses Roar Out of a Recession

IT has become pivotal for any company looking to thrive in this era of social distancing. Reducing cloud costs quickly could be the solution to not only surviving, but possibly thriving. organizations might find the best opportunity for that in the most unlikely of places – the operating system. IT finds itself in the driver’s […]

Cloudian Object Storage: Product Overview and Insight

Today: Cloudian (new-gen object storage and data protection) Ironically, though “cloud” is the foundation for the name of Cloudian, it is primarily an on-premises physical storage-making company. Cloudian is a Silicon Valley-based file and object storage maker, specializing in AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)-compatible object storage systems, that was officially launched in 2011 by CEO Michael Tso […]

How Delphix is Speeding Up Shift to Digital for Enterprises

Not too many companies actually come out and say something like this, but Delphix, which originated the DataOps school of new-gen data management, has declared completed the original mission it undertook a decade ago when it launched its first product. That mission was to provide a full-service data platform to accelerate digital and customer-experience transformation for […]

#eWEEKchat Tuesday, June 9: Data Storage, Protection in a Hypersensitive Era

On Tuesday, June 9, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 87th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Data Storage, Protection in a Hypersensitive Era.” It will be moderated by eWEEK Editor Chris Preimesberger. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat, June 9: “Data Storage, Protection in a Hypersensitive Era”   Date/time: Tuesday, […]

Top Collaboration Tools & Software

If any concept defines our new-gen digital age, it’s collaboration. The ability for groups to communicate and work together is vital for companies to compete. A key aspect of collaboration revolves around sharing content, which becomes more complicated to use by the day. As a result, content collaboration platforms play an increasingly important role in […]

Dell’s XPS 13 Laptop: Legit Power in a Small Package

The appearance of Dell’s newest big power-yet-little-size laptop, the XPS 13 (13 inches is the size of the screen), belies the power and punch it packs inside its elegant skin. At first glance, it has the look of a basic workday notebook with maybe 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, but not so. Although […]

Why Experts See Graph Databases Headed for Mainstream Use

Graph databases are now clearly riding the upward trend toward mainstream adoption for which the sector has been waiting for several years. Much like the cloud in its early period from 1998 (they were called ASPs–application service providers–back then) to 2012, the speedy search database is picking up buyer after buyer when they try it […]

Two Years In, IT Thought Leaders Judge GDPR’s Impact

It’s been exactly two years since the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was put into force by the European Union on May 25, 2018.  eWEEK has covered the genesis, institution and passage of this pioneering international data privacy law since long before that date became a milestone in data protection and privacy history. Take […]

Dell, Google Partner for New Hybrid Cloud Options

A couple of major-league IT players, Dell Technologies and Google Cloud, this week partnered to launch Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud. This is a bold attempt to assist enterprises as they move to control exponential data and application growth and smooth the flow of logs, files, images and other content across their private […]