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.
Business collaboration tools have never been more integral to enterprises than they are today, due to the worldwide COVID-19 pneumonia pandemic, which to date has infected nearly 5 million people and killed nearly 500,000 (93,000 in the United States to date) in a span of about five months. Workers have been forced to operate from […]
From artificial intelligence wearables to interactive displays connected to cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, collaborative technologies are changing the way we work, as well as where we work. Do you have specialist workers located in different offices in faraway lands? Perhaps your team includes contractors and freelancers who work remotely. More and more companies are moving […]
After spending three months with the new Samsung Galaxy 20 Ultra 5G smartphone and getting to know it pretty well, I have to say I’m right there with AndroidAuthority: “What (in the heck) more could you want?” “In the heck” is my addition to their headline. This sleek device does everything, does it better than […]
On Tuesday, May 12, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 86th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Trends in New-Gen Mobile Apps and Devices.” It will be moderated by eWEEK Editor Chris Preimesberger. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat, May 12: “Trends in New-Gen Mobility, Apps, Devices” Date/time: Tuesday, […]
In baseball, a manager often goes to the bench to call a specific pinch-hitter to bat in a clutch situation. Similarly, enterprises sometimes require specific software applications to get a hit “in the clutch” as well. Vantiq (pronounced VAN-tick) is a specialized agile and DevOps-oriented software creator that has built its own highly sophisticated development […]
The adoption of multi-cloud environments that span public, private, and hybrid IT infrastructures have revolutionized the way companies do business, enabling them to cut costs, improve efficiencies and increase agility. In the process, this cloud revolution has turned traditional data center-based security on its head, as more users, devices, apps, services, and data now reside […]
Today: Idaptive (new-gen identity and access management ) Company description: Founded in 2019 as a spin-off from Centrify, a respected provider of cybersecurity software, Idaptive provides identity and access management (IAM) solutions. More than 2,000 organizations in retail, software, automotive, financial services and the government sector use Idaptive to manage and intelligently secure access to […]
Today: CloudBolt Software (provides a hybrid cloud management platform and software solutions for the world’s largest enterprises) Company description: CloudBolt is a leading enterprise cloud management platform. The company was founded in 2011 after a need was identified among IT leaders in large organizations to manage and optimize hybrid cloud. CloudBolt is a privately held […]
Apple and Google are two of the richest, fiercest and most successful competitors in Silicon Valley, and they have been at it for more than two decades. But the COVID-19 pandemic has brought them together on a rare occasion for a common project: how to help health care experts track patterns of exposure to the […]
Xerox PARC Celebrates 50 Years Xerox PARC is celebrating its 50th year in business in 2020, and eWEEK thought it would take a look back—AND a look forward—into what this place was, and will be, all about. Xerox PARC, 1970 Xerox PARC, which holds more than 3,000 patents in its 50 years of existence, is […]