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.

#eWEEKchat March 11: What’s Up with New-Gen Health Care IT

On Wednesday, March 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 84th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “What’s Up with New-Gen Health Care IT.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s Editor in Chief. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat March 11: “What’s Up with New-Gen Health Care IT” Date/time: […]

Intellectus Statistics: Product Overview and Insight

Today: Intellectus Statistics (statistics software for education market) Company description: Intellectus Statistics is cloud-based statistical analysis software that allows users to conduct analyses without requiring statistical expertise. The output is in the form of plain English sentences, formatted in the APA style, to make understanding statistical results easier than ever. [Editor’s note: APA Style is a writing […]

BMC’s Big Week: Acquires Compuware, Upgrades Helix Platform

BMC Software, a veteran independent enterprise IT products and services maker that long ago carved out its own loyal clientele in the face of larger competitors, has had a busy news week. The Houston-based company revealed March 2 that will acquire Compuware, once the largest tech company in Michigan and since 1973 a provider of […]

How New IT Tools Can Advance, Improve Health Care Practices

Electronic health records (EHRs, also known as electronic medical records, or EMRs) have earned a lot of media attention in the years since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009. Unfortunately, a lot of that reporting was negative in nature. Even though EHRs were heralded for their […]

RSAC 2020: Loads of New Security Products Come to Market

SAN FRANCISCO—Here is a listing of some key news announcements from Day 1 of the RSA 2020 Security Conference here at Moscone Center. Attendance has been down somewhat this week, due mostly to curtailment of international travel due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, which originated in China several weeks ago. An estimated 18,000 people […]

Predictions 2020: What to Expect in AI, ML, RPA Sectors

At the end of each year, eWEEK likes to post observations from IT thought leaders about what they think we should all expect in the coming year—new products, innovative services, trends to look for and so on. As usual, we’ve published a few of these thus far, but we had some publishing-process snafus in December […]

Data Types Enterprises Should Use for High Network Visibility

As new technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) continue to change how networks are architected, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for IT to get a complete picture of the entire network or to measure performance KPIs accurately. To compensate, organizations often use individual tools to solve individual problems, which can result […]

Accenture Technology Vision 2020: The Focus Must Be on People

New York-based Accenture is on the daily front lines of IT transformation as one of the most respected integrators anywhere in the world. When this company releases a state-of-the-union report, as it did on Feb. 12, you know it’s going to be complete and relevant to IT decision-makers and their real-world issues. The research resulted […]

Why Samsung’s New 5G Galaxy 20 Smartphones Are Impressive

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Samsung introduced its long-awaited 5G smartphones Feb. 11, and there’s a not-so-big surprise attached: They’ve been improved noticeably over the last release. South Korea’s largest company unveiled three new Galaxy phones, and please note that the model numbers have skipped from “10” to “20.” No explanation of that was given—of course, there’s no […]

#eWEEKchat Feb. 12: Down the Batch: New Trends in Data Orchestration

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 83rd monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Batch Goes Out the Window: The Dawn of Data Orchestration.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s Editor in Chief. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat Feb. 12: “Batch Goes Out the Window: […]