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.

Truck-Sharing App Truxx Heads StartupGrind Exhibition

You know this had to happen sooner or later: You can now share a truck, similar to ZipCar and other vehicle-sharing services. This is particularly timely this week. Truxx, the truck-sharing app that connects people who drive a truck with those who need one, is one of 130 companies to be inducted by StartupGrind to […]

Five Important Ways AI is Upgrading Enterprise, Consumer IT

Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of infrastructure software maker Accelerite, told eWEEK recently that “AI isn’t just a hype; thinking machines will rule our lives–but perhaps not literally.” He appears to be on the right track. Look at what Siri, Cortana, Google and Alexa are doing for us more and more all the time. Look at how […]

Eight Technical Tips for CISOs Racing Against the GDPR Clock

Perhaps the biggest international data protection issue this year will be that the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into effect on May 25. As Datos IO Vice-President Peter Smails told eWEEK: “Data-aware data management becomes table stakes in 2018. The GDPR is the most sweeping change to data protection in the past […]

IT Science Case Study: Docker Helps HudsonAlpha Lab Get More Efficient

This is the latest article in a new feature series in eWEEK called IT Science, in which we look at what really 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 the […]

Comtrade, ExaGrid Develop New Backup Package for Nutanix

Comtrade Software, which makes monitoring and data protection solutions for hyperconverged infrastructures, has hooked up with ExaGrid, a provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, in a new partnership to offer a backup-application-to-backup-storage solution for Nutanix. Early last year, Comtrade launched its HYCU platform, which is purpose-built data storage protection for Nutanix servers. In recent […]

How Prysm is Challenging the Crowd in Visual Business Productivity

Even though it’s a tad difficult to break into a market already loaded with business workplace productivity platforms made by Cisco Systems, Polycom, High Five and a slew of others, Prysm isn’t shying away from the competition. The San Jose, Calif.-based workplace software and hardware maker at the ISE 2018 (Integrated Systems Europe) conference this […]

Eight Small Business Technology Trends to Watch in 2018

New-generation information technology continues to offer more efficiencies for small and midsize businesses, and for those ready to take a leap and invest in these fast new tools and services, 2018 promises to be a good year. So what exactly are the top technology trends for small businesses? Well, basically anything that a large enterprise needs […]

Rubrik Acquires Datos IO for New-Gen Cloud DB Management

Cloud management provider Rubrik revealed Feb. 6 that it will acquire Datos IO, a rising developer of backup and recovery software for cloud-native NoSQL databases and big data file systems. Terms of the transaction were not released. Datos IO, which came out of stealth only 2 ½ years ago, built its reputation as a data […]

IT Science: How Port of Rotterdam Aims to be ‘Smartest Terminal’

This is the latest article in a new feature series in eWEEK called IT Science, in which we look at what really 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 the […]

How Lumileds’ New-Gen LEDs Lit Up Super Bowl LII

When you’re watching Super Bowl LII (52) today on television—and you probably are, because the nosebleed tickets were going for $2,900 and the high was 5 degrees in Minneapolis—you  aren’t likely to be thinking about the science of lighting up the inside of U.S. Bank Stadium. But you should. On your high-definition screen (whether TV, […]