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.

Pivot3 Touts ‘Serverless Computing’ at LinuxWorld

SAN FRANCISCO — Congratulations to Pivot3, a startup that makes something called “High-Definition Storage.” It won this year’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Best Virtualization Software award today, over a lot of more well-known companies. Pivot3 now is touting a strategy called “serverless computing,” which enables users to “absorb” compute-intensive workloads that normally run on stand-alone […]

IBM, Linux Dealers Seize Chance to Market ‘Microsoft-Free’ Desktop

SAN FRANCISCO-IBM’s front-line Linux and open-source troops were out in full force at Linux World Conference & Expo Aug. 5 in their continuing effort to remind the community at large that the company is serious about becoming more open-source-minded in enterprise product development.IBM revealed a couple of news items at the Moscone Center conference, the […]

Symantec Unveils Virtual Desktop

Symantec has a new take on the virtualized desktop that should catch some attention from enterprise and mid-range companies, although it really doesn’t yet have a specific product name.Describing it only as a “virtualized workspace,” Symantec officials Aug. 5 announced that they will soon make available a new endpoint virtualization software platform that allows enterprise […]

Key Yahoo Investors Smell a Rat in Proxy Vote

So, apparently some people are wondering if last Friday’s relatively strong shareholder vote (about 80 percent favorable, in the face of diminishing returns and increasing internal unrest) to retain Yahoo’s board of directors and CEO was counted correctly. Colleague Kara Swisher reported yesterday in her AllThingsD blog that one of Yahoo’s largest and most influential […]

Why Microsoft Will Try Again for Yahoo in 2009

Now that the annual shareholders meeting is over, the attendees have been “Yanged” and headed back home, and the corporate propaganda machine is taking a vacation, what’s next for Yahoo and its embattled leadership?CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang–who is adept at calming investor nerves and charming analysts and media types alike, thus the “Yanged” observation–will […]

Live Blog from Yahoo Shareholders’ Meeting

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Here’s another update to our live blog coverage of the meeting, which might have been a media circus had billionaire investor Carl Icahn attended but which in fact took place in a very controlled environment: 12:46 p.m. Pacific time: We’re Done Here. Generally, shareholders seemed frustrated that not even a partial […]

How to Save on Data Storage

Shareholders Back Yahoo Board

SAN JOSE, Calif.-What could have been a nasty Yahoo shareholder uprising if activist billionaire shareholder Carl Icahn had been present actually turned out to be a rather docile gathering of business folks Aug. 1 at the company’s annual conference at the Fairmont Hotel. At least that’s the way I judged it from the press section. […]

The Station, Fox News Team Up for Big Yahoo Meeting

Well, The Station doesn’t get to announce this kind of thing too often, so we might as well get it over with. Yours truly will be on-site at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose, Calif., Friday morning to cover the annual Yahoo shareholders’ meeting for eWEEK — and analyze it for Fox Business News. […]

Nintendo Reviving Holographic Storage

Nintendo, one of the world’s top three videogame console and handheld device makers, apparently is preparing to invest some big money into developing holographic storage.A patent for holographic storage was recently co-signed by the Japanese entertainment hardware and software company, which is a clear indication that the console manufacturer is investigating new methods of data […]