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.

Apple Bounces Back with Solid Quarter, Hints at iPhone 8 Launch

The world may not be fully saturated with iPhones after all, even though there are 1.2 billion of them out there in people’s pockets–one for every seven people on the planet–and that Apple sold 41 million more of them in the last three months. Not that the world’s richest company was overly worried about anything, […]

Cohesity Adds Archiving to Updated Hyperconverged Storage

Cohesity isn’t messing around with its platform updates. Right on the heels of the 4.0 version of its Orion storage software announced in April comes the next new version, a mere four months later. New ideas, DevOps, rapid iteration and testing appear to be well entrenched in that shop. Cohesity, one of the true pioneers […]

Apache Kafka Survey Reveals Growing Importance of Streaming Data

As the overall volume of data from machines and human-operated devices–mostly from machines–continues to zoom up like an F-18 off an aircraft carrier, IT systems sometimes find themselves straining to keep that data moving from place to place at internet speed. All those moving bits are becoming heavy loads for systems old and new. Server […]

Datorama Releases Do-it-Yourself Data Source Service for Marketing

A number of the early commercial use cases for cloud-based artificial intelligence are coming to the fore in the sales and marketing world. They all follow the Google and Facebook example: Learn as much as you can about your customers and potential customers, give them as many buying choices and opportunities as possible, and then […]

LoopUp Adds Single Sign-On to Premium Remote Meetings

Sometimes less works better than more when it comes to feature sets for software services, especially the ones people use on a daily basis. Take conference calls, for instance. It can be a royal pain to dial a 10-digit number, add another lengthy code number, and then punch in a participant or organizer code as […]

Qualtrics iQ Service Brings Predictive Intelligence to CX Masses

CX and UX—customer experience and user experience—are acronyms for hot software functions that enterprises are scrambling to add into their systems in 2017. One can imagine that when Qualtrics sees those two terms, it just smiles. That’s because it’s been measuring and quantifying customer experience for 15 years and helped invent the term. The Provo, […]

Intel Earnings Beat Street, Despite Worldwide Dip in PC Sales

Intel squarely beat the so-called Street July 27 when it brought in Q2 2017 revenue of $14.76 billion versus $14.41 billion expected by Thomson Reuters analysts. As a result, the stock took a 4 percent jump in after-the-bell trading on the positive news. Earning per share amounted to 72 cents against 68 cents in EPS […]

Amazon Q2 Earnings Fall Way Short of Street Projections

Amazon’s second-quarter earnings were a surprising dud July 27, causing some alarmed investors to sell off their shares as the stock price took a hit. The world’s largest online marketplace, which went public 20 years ago, fell way short of Wall Street analysts’ expectations in its Q2 2017 report, missing profit forecasts by more than […]

eFolder, Axcient Merge, Become Big Factor in MSP Data Protection

Data protection and sync/share provider eFolder, which specializes in working with managed service providers, and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) provider Axcient revealed July 27 that they are merging. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Neither privately owned company would say which one actually bought the other, but since the company will be headquartered at […]

Cray, Seagate Sign Deal to Develop ClusterStor for HPC

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. is focusing more of its corporate attention on improving data storage for ultra-high end computing systems. The Seattle-based company revealed July 26 that it has signed an agreement with Seagate creating a partnership around Seagate’s ClusterStor high-performance storage product line and spelling out how the two companies will collaborate on future ClusterStor […]