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.
OneLogin, which specializes in unified access management for enterprises, on Aug. 1 announced improvements to its security platform which feature a new login experience and the release of OneLogin Protect 4.0 authenticator. These new additions are aimed to provide increased security and customization for both administrators and end users, the San Francisco-based company said. OneLogin […]
For a while there several years ago, industry prognosticators wrote that once enterprises decided on their cloud IT strategies, they would build private clouds first and add public cloud services later as needed. Well, that didn’t happen. Turns out they jumped right into hybrid as fast as they could get their boards of directors to […]
Carbon Black (security through big data and analytics in the cloud). Company description: Carbon Black, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., is a provider of next-generation endpoint security, serving more than 4,000 customers globally, including 33 of the Fortune 100. As a cybersecurity innovator, Carbon Black has pioneered multiple endpoint security categories, including application control, endpoint detection […]
HP Inc. is already well known for its business and consumer desktop, laptop and convertible (laptops that also serve as tablets) PCs. In fact, the company is No. 2 in the world in sales in those categories behind Lenovo and ahead of Dell. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that the company […]
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 […]
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 […]
Private networks that bypass the mainstream internet to use interconnection-type data centers are becoming more and more desirable for enterprises large and small. Security is the major reason behind this caution in networks, which are most often used by high-end trading companies, governments, the military and various scientific organizations. Not every company can afford to […]
BMC (tech-support service and asset management software) Company description: BMC helps customers run and reinvent their businesses with open, scalable and modular solutions to complex IT problems. Bringing both experience in optimization and a passion for innovation to technologies from mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond, BMC helps more than 10,000 customers worldwide reinvent, grow […]
Despite the continued emergence of new types of storage media, flash memory will remain a dominant solid-state memory for at least the next several years, a new data storage market report has concluded. Other conclusions: Intel/Micron’s 3D X-Point technology (layered flash memory) is poised to impact DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) production, while STT MRAM (spin-transfer […]
July 10, 2018 marked an IT milestone: the 10th anniversary of the launch of the App Store, which made its debut with 10 million downloads in its first weekend. The apps back then were designed for Apple’s second-generation iPhone 3G, the first to use mobile apps. Now, in mid-2018, the App Store now has in […]