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.

Nielsen Connect: Product Overview and Insight

Today: Nielsen (measurement and data analytics company) Company description: Nielsen is a global measurement technology and data analytics company that provides a complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. Nielsen’s approach marries proprietary Nielsen data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now and predict what […]

Webroot’s Listing of the ‘Nastiest’ Malware of 2019

Each year at this time, Webroot Software compiles a list of what it considers the nastiest malware, worms and botnets of the year—the all-stars of cyber-malactivity. The 22-year-old Broomfield, Colo.-based security provider, recently acquired by Carbonite, surveys its proprietary threat database and deploys a team of threat researchers to compile the list. Some of the […]

Zoho Launches New Serverless Developer Platform

The idea of “serverless” computing came upon the IT scene about nine years ago as an interesting buzzword and potential greenfield for new products for enterprises, developers and IT product makers. And, as is common when new buzzwords start circulating, not a lot of people understood what “serverless” means, and perhaps that’s why the idea […]

Five Ways the Edge is Driving Digital Business

Major macro, technology and regulatory trends have created a new normal in every industry: If your IT infrastructure isn’t digital-ready, your business can’t compete. As enterprise technology continues to become increasingly seamless, it’s imperative that businesses continue to bring IT delivery, applications and data processing closer to the users—at the digital edge.  For the record: […]

Micron Pulls No Punches, Claims ‘World’s Fastest SSD’

SAN FRANCISCO—Data memory device and processor maker Micron Technology issued a lot of news Oct. 24, making five major announcements at its international Insight 2019 conference here at Pier 27 on the waterfront. The news included the following: Micron’s first commercial product built on the 3D XPoint nonvolatile memory technology, originally developed in cooperation with […]

Samsung Introduces New Building Blocks for 5G Networks

We keep hearing that 5G is coming … coming … and coming. Up to recently, this has mostly been about hype and anticipation only. Well, Samsung Electronics on Oct. 22 actually made a major move toward making 5G wireless a daily reality for consumers and businesses. The huge electronics maker unveiled at Mobile World Congress […]

How Aruba’s Cloud-Native OS Drives New-Gen Networking

Networking equipment and software maker Aruba on Oct. 22 launched a new lineup of network switches designed to address specific new-generation requirements of business campuses, branch offices, edge nodes and devices, and data centers.   The Aruba CX Switching Portfolio now includes the Aruba CX 6300 Series fixed configuration and CX 6400 Series modular access, […]

SIOS Technology: Product Overview and Insight

Today: SIOS Technology (high availability and disaster recovering clustering software) Company description: SIOS Technology provides IT resilience for critical applications like SAP and databases such as SQL Server and Oracle SAP in the cloud, hybrid cloud or data center. Using SIOS high availability clustering software, applications automatically recover from infrastructure and application failures in a […]

Splunk vs. SolarWinds: SIEM, DM Head-to-Head

Download our free SIEM Vendor Report based on nearly 300 real user experiences with the top SIEM products in the marketplace. It’s becoming a 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 SolarWinds. SIEM, the […]

Product Review: HP’s ZBook 14U G6 Mobile Workstation

HP’s newest ZBook laptop, which came out this summer, and I are now old friends. We’ve been working together at home, at the office and on the road now for more than two months. We’ve come to know each other pretty well during that time span, and, like getting to know a real person, we […]