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Redwood City, San Francisco
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Covers:  Most IT sectors, including cloud, business intelligence, analytics, IoT, storage, data centers and innovation.
Doesn't Cover: gaming, staffing
Writer at The New Stack/SDxCentral. Former Editor-in-Chief at eWEEK. Covering/analyzing IT business/innovation since 1995. I straighten spin. Tweets are my own.

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Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor-in-Chief of eWEEK and responsible for all the publication's coverage. In his 15 years and more than 4,000 articles at eWEEK, he has 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, the IoT, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world by Richtopia, a UK res…

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Why the need for humans won’t disappear in the age of autonomous databases

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By Chris Preimesberger Verified
| The New Stack Verified
Why the need for humans won't disappear in the age of autonomous databases sponsor-percona,sponsored-event-coverage, The promise of fully autonomous systems — databases that manage, heal, and optimize themselves amid rapidly increasing data stores — is tantalizing to CTOs. But as Percona co-founder Vadim Tkachenko explained to The New Stack last week, the reality is far more nuanced: While automation is indeed transforming the data landscape, the human element remains not only relevant but...
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Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake

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By Chris Preimesberger Verified
| The New Stack Verified
Percona, which makes a popular open-source database-as-a-service (DBaaS), celebrated its 20th birthday this week with a rebrand, a new supporting non-profit foundation – and a birthday cake shaped like a goat. The event was held here in Mountain View, California, at the Computer History Museum, and the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) cake was the star of the show, implying that open-source DBs are the greatest in the IT business.
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JFrog report recaps a tumultuous year in supply chain security

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By Chris Preimesberger Verified
| The New Stack Verified
Calendar year 2025 not only broke records for code package proliferation; it also redefined the foundational architecture of the software supply chain. Bad actors then turned this into a high-value target. For CISOs and security professionals, the structural shifts driven by AI are forcing a reckoning: the security perimeter is no longer just the code they write or the open-source dependencies they pull. It’s now the vast, ungoverned realm of AI models and agentic development tools themselves.
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