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.
eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the […]
Three of the most important current trends in IT development are devops and agile development, no- and low-code development (AKA citizen development) and container deployments of microservices using Kubernetes scheduling. It’s apparent that all of this cloud and container adoption will continue its fast pace in 2019, but you may need help analyzing some of […]
Any IT manager knows that it’s difficult to find and hire enterprise data scientists who can write good analytics queries, interpret the results clearly and efficiently, and also be able to explain important trends to C-level execs and business analysts. Along those same lines, who’d have thought that one day we would have self-service data […]
Hybrid flash/DRAM database maker Aerospike, which provides a super-fast new-gen alternative to standard databases, on Dec. 13 launched Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5, optimized for Intel Optane DC persistent memory. Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 is the first commercially available open database that supports both traditional DRAM memory and new Intel Optane DC persistent memory. This is a […]
eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the […]
Any time a small company hooks up with a much larger one to serve as an usher into a market, well, that’s never a bad thing. It also doesn’t hurt when the smaller company fills an important gap that the larger one had in its product or service lineup. This dream of sorts came true […]
We keep pounding away at this point here in eWEEK, and we’ll do it again today: We are at an important convergence of technology here in this, the first quadrant of the 21st century. It’s all available now: high-connectivity bandwidths, super high-quality code and code libraries, unprecedentedly powerful processors that use less power than previous […]
Tablets have been a major hit with both consumers and enterprises since the first Apple iPad hit the market in 2010. In only eight years, sales of Apple, Samsung, Acer, Zebra and other tablets have multiplied to more than 1.2 billion units globally (including about 500 million iPads through 2018), according to Statista. Zebra Technologies, which […]
eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the […]
On Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Predictions and Wild Guesses for IT in 2019.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor in chief. Some quick facts: Topic: “Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2019” Date/time: Dec. […]