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.

Best Mobile Device Management Software for 2021

As companies grow their employee ranks and spread out to larger geographical and market spaces, they are eventually going to need some sort of mobile device management software to control and protect company data, wherever it exists. The fact is, more employees are now doing some sort of business on their smartphones, laptops and tablet […]

Best Cloud Computing Service Providers 2022

It’s no surprise to those even slightly informed in the IT business that hybrid—which combined both public and private cloud elements—is now the standard choice for enterprises seeking cloud providers. Data management systems that can combine control of public cloud services and on-premises applications on a single screen is the nirvana that all IT administrators […]

GDPR One-Year Anniversary: Data Privacy Still Needs Help

A year after the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union on May 25, 2018, the protection and privacy controls of personal data remain hot-button issues. Social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and scores of e-commerce businesses have felt the heat to upgrade the way they process, store and […]

Law Firm Releases New Data Privacy App for CCPA

Law firms aren’t particularly known for developing software. They’re much more apt to be protecting—or prosecuting—software developers in intellectual property litigation than writing code and testing applications. That’s where the celebrated Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has taken a different path. With dependable data privacy protection becoming an international and stateside problem, […]

Best Remote Desktop Software for 2021

The term “remote access software” describes a software program or operating system feature that enables a personal computer’s desktop environment to be run remotely on one PC or server while being displayed on a separate client device. Remote access software is commonly used by help desk personnel in assisting PC users when they’re stuck on […]

Prophix: Product Overview and Analysis

Today: Prophix  (corporate performance management) Company description: Prophix is a global leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software on a mission to transform the office of finance through innovative approaches and technologies. Focused on the mid-market enterprise, Prophix helps finance leaders improve profitability and minimize risk by automating budgeting, planning and reporting so they can […]

Cloud Elements: Product Overview and Insight

Today: Cloud Elements (API virtualization and integration) Company description: Cloud Elements claims to bring harmony to the world of application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing software providers to innovate faster and plug into digital ecosystems. The company’s one-to-many virtualized API integration platform enables developers to unify thousands of APIs, build common data models for core business […]

Best Linux Distros of 2022

This article offers a 2019 update on several of the world’s top Linux server vendors, a very important but often mysterious section of the IT world that many people know little or nothing about. This is because Linux and its various flavors, called “distros” (for distributions), are underlying operating systems that run applications on servers […]

Where Cloud-Native and Mesh Security is Headed Next

Innovation in service meshes for cloud-native development got a lot more intriguing when Amazon Web Services announced its App Mesh at the end of March. And with the growing momentum with cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes, Istio and AWS App Mesh–and 47% of enterprises deploying to production multiple times per week, the question around the […]

Newcomer Cloud Elements Virtualizes API Integration

Pretty much everything in IT is able to be virtualized these days, including all types of hardware, software and even services. But you don’t often hear about virtualizing APIs (application programming interfaces), largely because that’s pretty complicated to do. Nonetheless, Cloud Elements, a relative newcomer in the business but already an expert in API integration, […]