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.
In this hyper-fast IT product-making environment, continual cycles of innovation are as important to a business’ long-term relevance as they have ever been. Without it, organizations quickly lose ground to competitors, new market entrants and industry disruptors. This has led largely to the rapid rise of continuous iteration of software applications as a standard development […]
ScyllaDB (real-time big data database provider) Company description: Founded by the team responsible for the open-source KVM hypervisor, ScyllaDB provides a performant, cost-effective and easy-to-use NoSQL database. Launched in 2016, Scylla is an open source drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra. While preserving the best traits of Cassandra in high availability, fault tolerance and its rich […]
Cohesity, a pioneer in the hyperconverged secondary-storage market, Aug. 21 released Cohesity Helios, software-as-a-service-based data management that enables customers to manage and take action on their secondary data and applications globally from a single dashboard. At the same time, users of this new package of tools can deploy analytics and machine-learning capabilities already inside the […]
Just when you were pretty sure there are enough data integration service providers to go around, along comes a new startup called Evolute. Evolute is a new independent container deployment specialist and a creator of highly scalable cloud migration and container technology. The news this week is that the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup has released […]
At midnight on May 25, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became official and enforceable. Companies around the world that conduct business in Europe rushed to share revised data privacy terms of services with customers prior to that deadline. The law literally transformed the way commerce is managed around the globe. Companies now […]
Last winter, one of the world’s largest coding bootcamps, Coding Dojo, released an objective analysis of the most in-demand programming languages of 2018. Coding Dojo came to its findings by analyzing the hundreds of thousands of job postings that contained the name of a programming language on job search engine Indeed.com. It found—to no one’s surprise—that […]
Nobody likes to waste anything–whether it’s leftover food, time sitting in traffic or, least of all, unused software sitting on a data center shelf. With this thought comes the following data point, one that came to the fore this week: U.S. companies wasted a whopping $30 billion last year on software that went unused. That’s […]
Here is the latest article in a new 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]