Chris Preimesberger

About

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.

IBM Addresses AI Bias with Massive Image Archive

Bias is a provocative term that’s being peppered into more and more conversations—especially when it comes to discussions (or arguments) about politics and the way media companies cover news events. But bias isn’t only about a person’s predetermined views affecting his or her opinion on a particular topic. It’s also an important factor in how […]

MobileIron Updates Its Multi-Factor Authentication for the Cloud

MobileIron, which specializes in cloud security and mobile app distribution software, on June 26 launched a new mobile application that enables organizations to verify a user’s identity using a smartphone as a second factor of authentication. MobileIron Authenticator differentiates itself from existing MFA (multi-factor authentication) platforms by providing a one-touch set-up process for end users, […]

Recorded Future: Product Overview and Insight

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 […]

Samsung Unveils 8TB Small Form Factor SSD for Data Centers

Samsung on June 21 introduced the industry’s highest-capacity NVMe (non-volatile memory) solid state drive based on the very small Next-generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF). Solid-state storage drive capacities, in general, are simply amazing these days. For example, you can buy a 100TB SSD storage device from Nimbus Data, the ExaDrive, but it is used quite […]

IGEL Device Management: Product Overview and Insight

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 […]

How CIOs, CFOs Can Better Manage IT Spending Together

As IT gets away from being a cost center and becomes a creator of competitive market advantage, it’s more important than ever that CIOs and CFOs get along with each other and direct operations from the same playbook. As we know, this is often easier said than done. The realities of who’s driving decision-making for […]

Digital Guardian: Product Overview and Insight

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 […]

Intel CEO Resigns, Admits Inappropriate Employee Relationship

Intel, which along with IBM and both Hewlett-Packards are among the most established, straight-laced Silicon Valley corporations of them all, reported June 21 that its Chief Executive Officer, Brian Krzanich, has resigned after admitting a consensual relationship with a company employee. Krzanich, 58, had served five years as CEO. The company said he violated a […]

What You Should Know Before Deploying SQL Server in a Public Cloud

Even though the cloud finally has become the preferred carrier for many—but certainly not most—enterprise applications, IT organizations remain hesitant to trust all public clouds to host Microsoft SQL Server applications. Why? What are the differences among the Big 5: Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, Oracle and Microsoft Azure? Glad you asked. Among the concerns […]

Rackspace Launches First Kubernetes Private Cloud

Rackspace isn’t afraid to make up its own new enterprise cloud markets. On June 20 at the HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas, the internet services provider revealed that it has expanded its private cloud-as-a-service portfolio in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to launch Rackspace Kubernetes-as-a-Service (RKaaS). This will include a pay-per-use infrastructure in a private […]