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.
New-gen security and data protection provider HyTrust offered a late-year holiday present for its customers, releasing a new product Dec. 19 called CloudAdvisor to support its workload security platform. CloudAdvisor is the HyTrust-branded version of a product it acquired in the Data Gravity acquisition last July. The software is versatile, enabling companies to proactively identify […]
We soon will be connecting new mobile platforms and handheld and wearable devices with the internet of things to help us do new and routine functions faster and more accurately. We’re also thinking this will happen sooner rather than later. For one example, in the not-too-distant future we’ll be wearing augmented-reality or virtual-reality glasses that […]
How Predictive Software Engineering Can Smooth Development Processes Software development, especially when handled by remote teams, can be a tricky process for companies. However, the collaboration with remote providers can be made smoother when built relying on a predictive software engineering (PSE) framework. According to a recent Deloitte survey, leading organizations are selecting remote providers […]
One of the world’s largest coding bootcamps, Coding Dojo, has released an objective analysis of the most in-demand programming languages of 2018. Coding Dojo came to its findings by analyzing the hundreds of thousands of job postings that contained the name of a programming language on job search engine Indeed.com. It found that Java is the […]
This is the latest article in a new occasional 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 […]
How do data workloads get processed in a so-called serverless IT system? Trust us; they do. Of course, serverless–otherwise known as FaaS (function as a service)–doesn’t mean there isn’t a server doing the heavy lifting; it’s about the user not seeing or maintaining the server and not caring where in the world it’s located. It’s […]
The annual Consumer Electronics Show, set for the week of Jan. 8, 2018 for 200,000 attendees at several locations in Las Vegas, is well known for its preponderance of device demonstrations. You can’t go anywhere inside any of the halls without seeing demos of all kinds of things: virtual reality headsets, high-resolution video and audio, […]
[Editor’s note: Each December, eWEEK asks IT professionals to look ahead to the next year and let us know what important trends they see coming. We’ll be publishing these predictions again this year, so get them ready to send us! Meanwhile, periodically we look back at previous years’ predictions to see how how accurate–or inaccurate–they […]
Seven Simple, Quick Ways to Speed Up Windows PC Performance If your PC seems to take forever completing even the most basic tasks, take a look at this simple guide to boosting PC performance. When the operating system is first installed on a PC, the system typically runs like a dream. But over time, as […]
Storage is home base for all of IT. If data doesn’t have a place to live, well, guess what? It’s dead, and if data dies, so does the internet, IT systems, television networks, the world economy and our lives in general. In other words, nothing too bad will happen, right? Technology in the data protection […]