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.

Azuqua Launches App Integrations for Adobe Experience Cloud

Whenever you go online to browse a catalog of products, search for a particular item or brand of item or look for a service, there’s always a lot more going on in the background than you might think. Usually a high number of resources are accessed in order for the whole operation to work smoothly. […]

How Workboard Gets Enterprise Employees on the Same Page

Workboard is new outfit with a message that might seem obvious for enterprises but isn’t always followed: You can’t be successful unless everybody in the company understands the correct business strategy and is pulling together in the same direction. The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup has the ambitious goal of creating a new IT category called […]

TidalScale Updates Its Software-Defined, Composable Server

Server-making startup TidalScale, which introduced itself and its new product a year ago at the Open Compute Project Summit, has unveiled the next generation of its software-defined server—what some analysts have called the missing piece of the composable software-defined data center. Composable infrastructure is a trendy architecture that was given visibility by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s entry […]

Rubrik Launches First SaaS Dev Platform for Data-Management Apps

Cloud data management and storage provider Rubrik on April 4 launched what it boldly described as the industry’s first cloud-based platform developers can use to create data-management applications. Companies such as Oracle, Delphix, VMware, NetApp, Dremio and a few others may not totally agree with that statement. Nonetheless, Rubrik claimed that its new Polaris platform […]

IT Science Case Study: Automating Strategic Alliances with WorkSpan

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 […]

Worldwide Converged Systems Saw 9 Percent Revenue Increase in 2017

More and more enterprises might be moving portions of their IT systems to cloud-based subscription-economy services, but there’s still a lot of hardware being bought and put into operation around the world. Industry analyst International Data Corp. reported April 3 in its Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker that worldwide market revenue in that sector increased […]

Startup JetStream Promises Painless Cross-Cloud Workload Migration

This is becoming a trend: Once again, data migration and integration news is at the top of the tech business lineup. JetStream Software, which on April 3 launched both itself and a next-generation cross-cloud data management platform, joins existing traffic on the data migration and integration virtual highway. Its new JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform gives cloud […]

Why AR/VR May Be the Future of Employee Training

Why AR/VR May Be the Future of Employee Training The number of jobs for virtual reality developers and engineers has increased tremendously over the last few years. This reflects growing interest in VR from SMBs (small to midsize businesses) to Fortune 500 companies, notably for workforce VR training simulations. VR is charting new trails in […]

Workato, Apttus Partner to Bring AI, Automation to Business Processes

Data integration and migration has been high up in tech news lineups the first few months of this new year. Salesforce spent a whopping $6.5 billion March 20 in acquiring MuleSoft to power its new integration cloud. Adobe on March 27 partnered with SnapLogic—and could possibly acquire it in the future—to integrate its myriad complicated […]

Why Backing Up Files Now Can Save Major Headaches Later

How important is safely backing up all your digital property—photos, documents, videos, financial records, software, social network remembrances, and so on? Imagine for a moment losing all of that personal information to the wilds of nature following a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, flood or earthquake. What would you do? You’ve spent a lifetime […]