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.

Citrix Workspace Service Now Available on Google Cloud

In the all-encompassing journey to so-called digital transformation, Citrix reinforced its long-term strategic relationship (can’t call it a partnership, there are legal issues involved if one does that) with Google on July 20. As a result of this extended agreement, Citrix customers now will be able to use Citrix Cloud to provision and manage secure […]

Dremio Launches Self-Service Data Analytics for Data Scientists

Just how did Dremio (pronounced DREM-e-oh), which has made the idea of self-service data analytics its business, choose its name? “Well, there aren’t that many six-letter domain names available, and this was one of them two years ago,” CEO and co-founder Tomer Shiran told eWEEK. “There’s a Google project called Dremel, which was the inspiration […]

Insight Engines Gets $15.8M VC to Make Big Data Easily Queryable

It’s trendy and fashionable for software companies in 2017 to provide three things in their application: a) machine data as a foundation; b) user-friendliness, especially for neophytes; and c) speedy performance. Information finder Insight Engines checks all three boxes. This is a San Francisco-based startup that claims its app enables anyone to ask questions of […]

Industrial Internet Consortium Publishes Smart Cities Edition of Journal of Innovation

Looking for some good, solid reading about how smart cities of the future will operate? Then bookmark this article, because it’s loaded with good links on the topic. The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global advocacy group dedicated to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT),  has published the fourth edition of the Journal of Innovation […]

Oracle Expands Cloud at Customer with PaaS, SaaS Services

Some people may think that Oracle took a tip from Yoda of “Star Wars” in naming its latest customer-services cloud Oracle Cloud at Customer. Yoda, of course, used to say things like “Luminous beings are we” and “Wars not make one great.” In any language usage, Oracle’s purpose is pretty clear: Take advantage of the […]

IBM Going Full Throttle in Its Evolution to Cloud Platforms

IBM, king of all IT product and service providers at age 106, is well into the process of yet another makeover to stay ahead of the technology curve. While the company is still very profitable and bringing in $75 billion-plus per year, its revenue has leveled off for the last five years as it makes […]

IBM Reports 21st Straight Quarter of Diminishing Revenue

As it has had to do for 21 straight quarters, IBM on July 18 reported declining revenue in its earnings performance. Like several other longtime IT product and service providers, the venerable company continues to take sharp financial hits in making the switchover to software and cloud services from its traditional IT hardware businesses. On […]

eWEEKchat Recap: Rise of the Chief Data Officer in the Enterprise

eWEEK has been a pioneer of sorts in conducting a regular, rain-or-shine event called the #eWEEKchat–an hourlong community discussion using Twitter–for the last 55 months. Every Second Wednesday since January 2013, we use public chat for trendy discussions of wide-ranging topics, which are entirely doable despite Twitter’s 140-character content limit. On July 12, the topic […]

10 Ways IT Leaders Can Bring Business Value to Their Enterprise

10 Ways IT Leaders Can Bring Business Value to Their Enterprise As entire enterprises adapt themselves to changing market requirements, their IT leaders must adapt as rapidly as the technology and business resources they manage. Cloud computing, mobile devices, data analytics and other digital technologies have spread beyond IT into different lines of business inside […]

Samsung Decides to Ratchet Up Production of High-End DRAM

The spiraling-up need for applications of all kinds that use artificial intelligence or machine learning is sending alarms to foundational IT product suppliers. Samsung, the world’s largest producer of advanced memory silicon hardware, on July 17 announced that it is increasing production volume of its 8GB High Bandwidth Memory-2 DRAM (dynamic memory) to meet this […]