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.
Delphix, which simply created its own sector of the IT market a year ago based on the way its platform manages and consumes data, on July 2 released updates that it says will give developers greater self-service capabilities to speed up application development times in key enterprise initiatives. Celebrating its 10th year in business this year, […]
Zuora, which makes cloud-based business management software and firmly believes that the world will someday run on a “subscription economy,” released its Spring ‘18 product lineup at its sixth annual Subscribed user conference in San Francisco. Zuora staged its initial public offering on April 12 and is just getting its bearings as a publicly traded […]
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise would like to take this opportunity to remind everybody in the room that it makes and sells networking hardware and software. The internet networking business isn’t only about Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper Networks, Huawei and Avaya. Thus, admins and managers will be interested to hear the following networking tech news, which doesn’t come […]
Every enterprise has to come to a Shakespearean decision at some point. Capsulized, it would be something like this: “IT, wherefore art thou?” This is about evaluating and deciding upon housing central IT in an on-premises data center, a managed/hosted data center, totally in the cloud, or in a colocation provider. A high number of […]
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 […]
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 […]
MongoDB, among the most popular freely available open-source NoSQL databases in the market for more than a decade, made several product announcements June 27 at its annual conference in New York–including a version optimized for Kubernetes and microservices. The general availability of v.4.0 is the headliner. This release features the addition of multi-document ACID transactions, […]
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 […]
Infrastructure performance management software provider Virtual Instruments is branching out by moving into the data migration business. This is a corner of the IT world that tends to make people wince when the topic comes up. In an attempt to deal with this eternal problem, the young company on June 27 launched its Cloud Migration […]
Here’s a thought: Why not run digital advertising campaigns in a similar fashion to the stock market, using programmatic methods and new-gen IT? How about letting a few knowledgeable humans together with machine learning and analytics engines figure out where the perfect impressions are–on any device–that present buying opportunities relevant to us today? That’s exactly […]