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.

How to Navigate the Fragmented Data Landscape on AWS

How to Navigate the Fragmented Data Landscape on AWS Since launching in early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has grown into an expansive range of offerings for virtually every area of infrastructure and software—from storage, networking and computing, to applications and software developer tools. Companies re-platforming to AWS find a diverse and complicated set of […]

Ivanti Software Review

Company description:  Founded as LANDESK in 1985, privately held Ivanti is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah and headed by CEO Steve Daly. Ivanti unifies IT and Security Operations to better manage and secure the digital workplace. From PCs to mobile devices, VDI, and the data center, Ivanti discovers IT assets on-premises and in the cloud, […]

New Real-Time Stream Processing Platform Powers Live Data Apps

Data Artisans, the Berlin, Germany and San Francisco-based maker of Flink, has announced the general availability of dA Platform, which it describes as the industry’s first “turnkey” stream-processing platform to enable enterprises to obtain insights from data in milliseconds. The new release productionizes stream processing and enables companies to provide live data applications as a […]

Q1 Tablet Shipments Show 35 Percent Decline, But This Was Expected

IT hardware market research firm TrendForce reported May 10 that global tablet shipments for the first calendar quarter of 2018 recorded only 31.3 million units, a steep quarterly decline of 35 percent. The researcher said this was due largely to the traditional sales off-season for tablet PCs. When it comes to the second quarter, TrendForce said, […]

IT Science Use Case: Upgrading a Major Airport’s Data Center to HCI

Here is the latest article in a new eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because […]

SugarCRM Embeds More Data Privacy Controls for GDPR Compliance

SugarCRM, which last fall beefed up its cloud customer relationship platform with a mobile SDK and updated management platform, has released a Spring 2018 update that will enable its customers to automatically implement best practices for data privacy. These capabilities mean organizations can deploy SugarCRM products as a key part of their GDPR compliance plans. […]

Walmart Outbids Amazon to Acquire India’s Flipkart for $16 Billion

Walmart has been competing hard against No. 1 Amazon for years to be the king of e-commerce in North America. Now it’s decided to find a new way around its rival and conquer a huge market in India. The mega-retailer revealed on May 9 that it will buy a 77 percent stake for $16 billion […]

Networking Monitor Savvius Improves Visibility into Network Apps

Savvius, which has specialized in making networking operations instrumentation for nearly three decades, May 8 unveiled a new version of its frontline product that gives enterprises the ability to more effectively analyze and control network traffic generated by key business applications. Spotlight 2.0 can monitor a list of SaaS applications–including Office 365, Salesforce, Citrix and […]

How Google Is Changing the Way We Plan Dinners, Consume News

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google made its usual series of interesting and semi-interesting product and update announcements onstage May 8 on Day One of its I/O conference at Shoreline Amphitheater. But it truly stunned the crowd of about 10,000 developers with these two: 1) a demonstration of Google Assistant conducting very human-like conversations in making typical […]

Microsoft, Stripe Now Enable You to Pay Bills from Inside Outlook

Companies are constantly making it easier and easier for us to spend our money. But that’s a good thing for our creditors. Stripe and Microsoft are going a level further than the usual point-and-click or swipe the credit card to enable purchasing. Now when you get a bill emailed to you, you can pay it […]