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.
It’s rare that a new file system of any type becomes available to the enterprise IT market. This is because so many enterprises have long been standardized on older, well-trampled file systems—even if they long predate the servers, storage and networking they handle. However, the time has come for a new-gen file system engineered specifically […]
IT decision-makers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in big data projects and state-of-the-art data science models to obtain business objectives and efficiencies in use cases for financial services, health care, government and other sectors. The health care industry, for one example, is expected to spend roughly $23 billion globally on big […]
eWEEK has been researching and reporting on the no-code revolution for several years as enterprises realize they need to put power into the hands of those actually using new-gen applications. By discarding the huge hurdle of learning a programming language, no-code platforms allow people to create specific solutions to problems that otherwise would have gone […]
Why IBM Had a Big Year By most accounts, IBM had a banner year in both business and product innovation in a number of different markets. From cloud computing to supercomputing, from servers to storage and from mainframes to security management, Big Blue again loomed large in the IT world, as it does most every […]
Today: Elastic NV (enterprise search) Company description: Elastic is a search company. When you hail a ride home from work with Uber, Elastic helps power the systems that locate nearby riders and drivers. When you shop online at Walgreens, Elastic helps power finding the right products to add to your cart. When you look for a […]
Today: Druva (data management and protection) Company description: Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary […]
eWEEK DATA POINTS ARTICLE: A futurist and tech analyst takes a look at what we might expect in 2020. This is a special top-of-the-new-year eWEEK Data Points article by Mark R. Anderson, founder of Strategic News Service, a Friday Harbor, Wash.-based futurist organization that spots and predicts trends like few others. —————————————————————— No matter how […]
By the end of 2019, many enterprise CIOs were busy working on moving to various cloud services, modernizing custom applications and investing in data science initiatives. After all, new-gen IT is all about satisfying the user in order to provide a positive UX (user experience) for anybody who comes into contact with a company’s online […]
Aruba is in the process of reshaping what edge networking in the enterprise looks like here at the outset of a new decade. The networking division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which the company acquired in March 2016, on Jan. 9 revealed a new, more user-friendly configuration for its SD-Branch package, designed to operate on the […]
It’s a bona fide trend that companies that started out producing SIEM solutions are now branching out to provide full data management platforms. This is indeed the case with both Splunk and AT&T Cybersecurity, formerly known as Alienvault. SIEM, the modern tools of which have been in existence for about 14 years, is an approach […]