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.
Data-centric security automator Vera continues to branch out and provide its second layer of security to key cloud platforms. Back in January, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup worked out an integration with Microsoft to protect Office 365 across a number of platforms. Subsequently, on May 23, Vera will announce new integrations with authentication platforms Duo […]
Cybersecurity platform maker Eastwind Networks on May 22 released a new feature, Eastwind Cloud Connectors, that enable users to analyze activity from SaaS, IaaS and PaaS providers alongside traditional on premise and virtual networks. The Salt Lake City-based startup is a cybersecurity solutions and breach analytics cloud platform company that focuses on protecting data that […]
Enterprise security provider Smyte is defining into data what has always been a gray area of semantic content: discerning truth and lies within images, video and messaging. The San Francisco-based startup has upgraded its SaaS “trust and safety” platform with new tools for stopping the latest online spam, fraud and harassment scams. Smyte’s service, which […]
How Software-Defined Networking Is Helping Modernize Data Centers As an increasing number of enterprises upgrade their data centers with the latest software and infrastructure, they are looking at technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) services to move and protect data. At the same time, organizations increasingly are relying on cloud services for hosting mission-critical workloads. […]
Enterprise analystics provider Striim, which rebranded itself a year ago with an unusual name after being called WebAction for three years, is pioneering a new category called stream analytics, based on real-time streaming data integration. This move into data management is aimed specifically at the internet of things. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company Striim (pronounced […]
Sencha, which makes a unified software package for building cross-platform web apps that power thousands of commercial web applications, has released ExtReact, a software service designed to enable React developers to add UI components efficiently to their applications. React, sometimes called React.js or ReactJS, is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is […]
We’re seeing a growing list of internet of things platforms come into play for industrial and/or for general consumer use. GE has its industrial-IoT Predix, Microsoft has Windows IoT Core, and C3 IoT has an ahead-of-the-curve platform that is already at work in about 25 major global corporations. Now AT&T has joined the group, deploying […]
Seattle-based NetMotion Software, which specializes in mobile performance management (MPM) software, on May 17 launched a new a visualization, analytics and alerting platform for enterprise mobile deployments. Built on Splunk Enterprise, a new-gen platform for running operational intelligence, NetMotion’s Mobile IQ delivers real-time analysis and alerts about mobile connectivity, security, performance and behavior so that […]
Salesforce turned in another solid quarterly earnings report May 18, showing a comfortable 25 percent jump in year-over-year revenue in Q1 2018 to $2.39 billion to exceed Wall Street estimates of $2.35 billion. The world’s largest cloud-services business application provider has shown impressive double-digit year-over-year revenue growth in each of the last three quarters, including […]
VMware has always been an open-arms sort of IT vendor, working in partnership or as a customer with a large number of companies—even competitors like Oracle or Docker—in efforts to satisfy the needs of customers worldwide. Because its virtualization software touches about everything inside an IT system, the company is pretty much required to play […]