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.
Machine learning is still in its infancy, and this is especially true at the tooling level, where workflows are simplistic, hacked together or prohibitively complicated to orchestrate. Also, there are few tools that equally satisfy the machine learning engineer, the infrastructure engineer and the engineering manager. What are the consequences of stitching together various open-source […]
Honeywell. There’s a venerable company name that you might not have heard too often lately in terms of new-gen IT. For those who might not know, Honeywell isn’t in the beekeeping or honey supply business. It’s the most well-established equipment-control maker in the world, and it has a history going way back-back-back-back to its founding […]
Business software maker Zoho is at it again, reaching out to help customers old and new with tools they can use to get work done during the coronavirus pandemic. Following the March 6 announcement that the company will offer free use of its Remotely productivity platform, the Austin, Texas-based company revealed March 19 that it […]
Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]
Knowingly or unknowingly, every company here in the 21st century is a data-driven company—whether this means a corporation with data centers full of documents, logs and images, or a small business using a simple spreadsheet of customers, suppliers and partners inside a laptop. For enterprises that range across industries and geographies, the ability to use […]
Historically, the telecommunications industry has centered around three main hardware suppliers: Nokia (Finland), Ericsson (Sweden) and Huawei (China), with little investment in actual telco infrastructure during the past 10 years. According to a recent blog post by Qualcomm Ventures: “Venture capital (VC) firms and startups typically avoid wireless network infrastructure investments.” But thanks to 5G, […]
During the past few decades, the health care industry has integrated more digital systems, amassed more digital data and automated clinical workflows. This has caused the industry to become a more attractive target to cyber-adversaries while clinicians have become more dependent on these digital systems. On the other hand, cyber-threats are evolving rapidly as attacks […]
Software companies modernize their wares on a regular—sometimes weekly or even daily—basis. That’s the whole idea behind agile development. So it’s a little unexpected to hear a company as sophisticated and forward-thinking as VMware announce in a special event that it’s “modernizing” much of its enterprise lineup because it’s generally being updated all the time. […]
Life is made up of moments; some good, some not so good, and everything in between. It’s what we do with all these moments—mainly what we learn from them—that ultimately comprises the decisions and non-decisions of a lifetime. The cool thing now is that we’re able to record many more of these moments with our […]
———————————————————-Editor’s note: As of March 19, 2020, Zoho had delivered more than 5,000 free copies of Remotely to small businesses globally, and the total keeps climbing.———————————————————- Zoho Software is making Remotely, the company’s new virtual collaboration and productivity platform, available to the public free of charge for those who need remote working tools in light […]