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 Unleashes Latest Nvidia GPU Accelerator for Cloud Deployment

Who would have thought this only a few years ago? Cloud computing services have become so granular that users are able to select the type of processor they want to run for a particular workload. IBM on April 5 announced that it will make the Nvidia’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator available in […]

Clarizen Upgrades Its Cloud-based Collaboration Toolset

Clarizen, an early entry 12 years ago into the collaborative work management market, on April 4 augmented its feature set to make the platform more efficient to use among enterprise team members. The spring 2017 upgrade to Clarizen’s current cloud-based service offering includes a reporting tool that makes it quick and easy to create company-branded […]

How Appian Is Gaining BPM Marketshare by Using ‘Low-Code’ Approach

SAN FRANCISCO — Appian, a BPM (business process management) unicorn that doesn’t care that it’s a unicorn, is staging its ecosystem conference this week at the Hyatt Regency, talking about moving its customers to the cloud and releasing a new version of its cloud platform software. In case you’re not familiar, the business version of […]

DigitalOcean Releases Free-of-Charge Cloud Server Monitor

DigitalOcean, which specializes in providing cloud services for software developers, launched a free-of-charge monitoring service April 4 that provides insight into the resource utilization and operational health of every droplet, or cloud server. The monitoring service measures the performance of each droplet’s CPU (central processing unit), its memory, disk utilization, disk reads and writes, network […]

Seven Rules for Inclusion in the CSO’s Security Playbook

Seven Rules for Inclusion in the CSO’s Security Playbook As conventional cyber-security practices continue to fall behind the sophistication of bad actors, enterprise chief security officers are scrambling to keep up. Organizations spent about $75 billion in the U.S. last year on security products and services, representing some 11 percent of total dollars spent on […]

Startup Cohesity Banks $90M in VC, Refreshes Storage Platform

At a moment when other young storage providers are falling off the table and/or mired in red ink, new-gen secondary storage provider Cohesity finds itself $90 million richer thanks to some influential venture capital supporters. The Santa Clara, Calif. startup on April 4 announced its largest funding round to date, raising $90 million in a […]

Facebook Starts News Integrity Initiative, Recruits Big-Time Help to Run It

Some major tech and education players are getting together to help solve one of the more serious problems of the internet age: the poisoning of legitimate news streams with false or misleading information. Fundamentally, they are trying to educate the reading public about how to recognize fake news when they see it and learn to […]

How Rackspace Wants to Help Enterprises Upgrade Their IT

The most impactful IT trend thus far in 2017 is a phenomenon called digital transformation, which is really a marketing term for faster digital transportation. Using simpler words, this is all about moving more and more data safely at faster and faster speeds. It turns out that lots of enterprises need help with this, thanks […]

Startup Dexter Releases Do-It-Yourself Chatbot Creator

Startup Dexter, which is carving out a name for itself as a provider of a do-it-yourself chatbot management/development platform for brands and agencies, has launched its platform out of closed beta run into general availability. The company made the announcement at the recent SXSW Interactive 2017 in Austin, Texas. Using the platform, marketers can build […]

Citrix, Samsung Combine to Make Galaxy 8 a Virtual Desktop

Sometime later in Q2 2017, owners of the new Samsung Galaxy 8 smartphone will be able to use it as a virtual desktop running on the Citrix platform if they so choose. Samsung and Citrix announced March 30 at a press event in New York that they are connecting the new Samsung DeX dock to […]