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.

Densify Launches Cloud Industry’s First Optimization-as-Code Product

Cloud-expense optimization software maker Densify has launched Cloe Aware, something the company describes as the industry’s first “cloud optimization-as-code” product.  Cloe itself is a machine-learning based analytics engine from Densify that won’t get you a restaurant reservation, but she’ll tell you all you want to know about how your data storage system is working. The […]

Liqid, Intel Optane Take Aim at DRAM with New Fabric Package

New-gen IT infrastructure provider Liqid and old-school chipmaker Intel have combined forces to produce a new alternative, solid state-based storage memory fabric in an effort to dislodge conventional DRAM (dymanic random-access memory) and bring better efficiencies to data centers. At the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference 2018, Liqid, which makes trendy composable […]

How Oracle Is Convincing Institutional Users to Move to Cloud

This is Part II of an interview eWEEK conducted with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on Oct. 23 during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Mark Hurd is tasked with many things, but persuading a lot of old-line institutional-IT customers to move as much of their IT infrastructure as possible into a […]

Gartner Identifies Top 10 Trends for Infrastructure, Operations in 2019

As is its convention each year at this time, IT industry researcher and analyst Gartner has highlighted the key technologies and trends for which IT infrastructure and operations decision-makers must prepare in order to fully support new-gen digital infrastructure in 2019. Gartner analysts on Dec. 4 presented these findings during the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations […]

MapR Technologies: Product Overview and Insight

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 […]

How BlueData Acquisition Will Push HPE into Containers

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has acquired a key connective technology for how enterprises deploy artificial intelligence and big data analytics in their applications. The company announced an agreement Nov. 27 to purchase BlueData, which will help expand HPE’s product lineup in the fast-growing AI and analytics software markets. Terms of the transaction were not made available; it […]

Cisco Predicts More IP Traffic in Next 5 Years Than in History of Internet

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Traffic on the internet continues to grow at massive scale. Okay, that one’s quite familiar. But I bet you haven’t heard this one: Cisco Systems says that within four years, more IP traffic will cross global networks than in all prior years combined, and that more traffic […]

HPE Expands Its Composable Platform to Include Cloud Fabric

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise introduced its composable infrastructure concept three years ago at the Discover 2015 show in London. On that Dec. 1, the company unveiled its Synergy platform, which is based on an infrastructure architecture designed to ensure that the exact amount of compute resources—from processing power and storage to network fabric and virtualization—can be rapidly […]

What Exactly is Data Intelligence, and How Can Enterprises Use It?

Here at eWEEK, we report about data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning quite a lot, because it seems like every new enterprise application that comes to the fore is using one of those ingredients to make it more valuable. This is a direct result of the convergence of key IT factors eWEEK has observed […]

eWEEK IT Science Case Study: How to Reduce a Big AWS Bill

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]