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.
It generally takes a lot of reps (repetitions) for a human to become really good at something. Playing the violin, swinging at (and hitting) a hard-thrown baseball and dropping back to complete a long pass in football are examples of this. Similarly, it takes a machine a lot of reps to be able to remember […]
If you ask the folks at security software maker Dtex, May, June and July 2018 may go down as three of the most significant months in the history of data privacy. Case in point: GDPR entered enforcement mode on May 25. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Fourth Amendment requires law […]
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 […]
Last May, some of the world’s brightest and most capable developers came to Seattle for the annual Microsoft Build conference, where they explored the future of cloud, blockchain, artificial intelligence and other innovations that are rocking the IT business. While these innovations are important in helping technologists solve tomorrow’s problems, there is another, lesser-known issue […]
TradeIt, which makes an integrated mobile software platform that links consumers to online brokers via any device, sees its primary mission as the connector of dots in the international financial services world—a world that has so many of those dots that even the smartest numbers whiz couldn’t hope to count them accurately. The New York […]
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 […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Flash Memory Summit, which drew a capacity audience to the convention center this week, on Aug. 9 announced its 2018 Best of Show Awards. This year’s 18 awards recognize the most significant products and companies worldwide within the Flash Memory and Solid State Storage industries in 2018. The winners are: […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Networking people know that there are different transport speeds for different types of enterprise use cases. There’s high-end data center control networking for high-speed, big-data workloads, and then there’s the regular internet protocol, TCP/IP, which is what we use when checking our Facebook news streams. At the Flash Memory Summit this […]
Company name: Nutanix (hyperconverged data center and storage infrastructure) Company description: Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application […]
eWEEK is compiling 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 […]