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.
The third annual staging of the Google Next conference this week at the rebuilding Moscone Center in San Francisco was an event loaded with integration news more than anything else. Data platform provider Looker was one of those newsmakers, announcing an integration July 25 with Google Cloud BigQuery machine learning that automates data science workflows […]
Some people could see back in 2008 that the cloud IT market was going to be a hit, but we seriously doubt any of those clairvoyants foresaw the incredible explosion in this business that we’re seeing now in 2018. Synergy Research Group reported July 27 that for the second successive quarter the cloud market growth […]
Startup Insight Engines claims to be ushering in a new era in cybersecurity investigation. Seeing is believing, so we may want to get a little further into the era to find out if this all works as advertised, but at the moment we’ll take a look at anything new. The security business is like that. […]
If you’re a team leader or a business owner, the responsibility of managing people goes far beyond just getting them to check items off their list each day. You must make sure that not only are your employees completing tasks in a timely manner, but also that they are exhibiting their most productive self. However, […]
IT integrator and consultancy KPMG International on July 25 announced an integration of its Intelligent Interactions solution with Google Cloud’s new Contact Center AI, an artificial intelligence package that combines multiple artificial intelligence (AI) products to improve the customer service experience and productivity of contact centers. It was the second announcement at the Google Next […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Genesys), which specializes in providing bots for omnichannel customer experience and contact center solutions, on July 24 revealed a partnership to integrate with Google Cloud’s new Contact Center artificial intelligence service. The announcement and an accompanying demonstration was staged at Google Cloud’s Google Next ’18 conference here at the rebuilding Moscone Center. The new integration […]
eWEEK has started 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 […]
2017 was infamous for cybersecurity breaches worldwide. These incidents were at such a global scale, they completely changed the game for organizational vulnerability. Now security is no longer a departmental or team problem but rather an organization-wide concern. According to Tracy Hernandez, Vice-President of Product Marketing at IT management software maker Kaseya, the recent trends […]
Artificial intelligence seems to be embedded in every enterprise app here in mid-2018. Now even the normally serene and relatively docile data storage sector is getting more smarts inserted into things like arrays, virtual machines and controllers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise on July 24 announced that it is adding new intelligence into its 3PAR data center […]
SAN FRANCISCO – A new IT baby was born July 24 at Google Next ’18 at Moscone Center. The newborn, along with parents IBM and Google and members of the open source community, were all said to be doing just fine post birth. The new entity, an open source serverless cloud computing project, has been […]