Chris Preimesberger

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.

Changing of Editors in the eWEEK Chair

Date: April 20, 2021 Redwood City, Calif. To: All my friends, colleagues and readers: After 16 years at the publication and 10 years as an editor, I’m calling it a day as...

How VMware Wants to Power an ‘Anywhere’ Workforce 

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What Next-Gen Networking Brings to the Home Table

Okay, so we’re a full year into the first worldwide pandemic in 100 years, and it’s shifted our world completely. Nothing is the same as it was--and in just...

#eWEEKchat April 13: The Home as Enterprise Branch

On Tuesday, April 13, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 97th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “The Home as Enterprise Branch,” and...

Google Ultimately Prevails Over Oracle in Java API Case

It took nine long, argumentative and legally expensive years, but the nasty tussle between Oracle and Google over "fair use" of Java’s application programming interfaces has ended with a...

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