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.

Oracle Puts More Smarts into Already Savvy Cloud Services, Apps

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle, as is the case with most high-end enterprise software developers, is turning over more and more of its applications’ decision-making capabilities to scary-smart machines to ostensibly get things done quicker and more efficiently. This all looks awfully good for businesses, but off the top, it sure appears as though human beings are being […]

Immuta Data Analysis: 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 […]

Dell Virtustream Enterprise Cloud: 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 […]

IT Science Case Study: Giving Staff Device Control Yet Keeping Tight Security

Here is the latest article in the 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 […]

GitHub Releases New Workflow Tools, ‘Octoverse’ Report

GitHub held its Universe 2018 conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco Oct. 16, and it was quite a newsy event for the little gang of about 31 million developers who use the company’s 96 million repositories of open source code each day. Those numbers are correct. That’s how large and in […]

Zoom Expands Communications Platform With End-to-End Features

Zoom, whose cloud-based audio-visual conference app is gaining traction in its sector against such established powers as Webex and Skype, has expanded its product suite to include cloud PBX, cross-platform workflows and enterprise conference rooms. Platform enhancements announced at its recent Zoomtopia 2018 conference in San Jose include: Zoom Voice: Zoom Voice is a cloud phone […]

How to Build a Successful, Secure Cloud-based Voting System

All of the concerns about voting accuracy in the last decade, from vote tallying to the security of our national and statewide election systems, have raised questions about our current processes and potential improvements. Perhaps it’s time the federal and state governments look to a different model to increase integrity and accuracy, one that would […]

Seven Industries Being Transformed by Geospatial Information Systems

We’ve said it here in eWEEK before and we’ll say it again: More data is being generated by more devices and their users than ever, and much of it is location-based. In fact, the geospatial data market is expected to grow to $73.9 billion by 2021, up from $30.7 billion in 2016. Spatial data refers […]

How MarkLogic Data Hub Service Makes Mass Data Useful

MarkLogic, a rising NoSQL database provider that’s regularly taking business away from larger vendors, on Oct. 9 launched the MarkLogic Data Hub Service, a new way to give users what the company calls “automatic elasticity” in the cloud for their enterprise workloads. MarkLogic claims that the Data Hub Service provides a fast and cost-effective way […]

IT Science Case Study: Finding Controls to Analyze Large Data Volumes

Here is the latest article in the 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 […]