Intel says it met 'full representation' in its diversity goals, but what does that mean?

The company's announcement points to a wider industry struggle: Most talent pipelines are not structured to encourage the growth of minorities in tech.

By Valerie Bolden-Barrett , Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 2, 2018

Red Hat acquisition is hybrid, open source power play for IBM, but it must tread carefully

Is a Red Hat acquisition enough to make IBM one of the "cool kids" of open source and the "Switzerland" of cloud?

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2018

Migration lessons learned: Even Amazon can face mishaps with new tools

The biggest mistake companies make when contemplating a database migration is concluding all databases are generic.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 30, 2018

IBM's $34B Red Hat acquisition takes over hybrid cloud market

Big Blue will remain committed to Red Hat's open source model, helping scale its technology to global enterprises.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 29, 2018

Cloud infrastructure services up on the year, down on the quarter

Quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue surpassed $17 billion, including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, according to Synergy Research Group. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2018

Mega cybersecurity coalition courts Walmart, Microsoft for next-generation defense

The coalition is looking to integrate cybersecurity from product design, using it as an active part of the business rather than a defense mechanism.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 23, 2018

Can CIOs solve the technical vacuum on many boards of directors?

CIOs, CTOs and directors with other IT backgrounds constitute a very slim piece of board leadership pies around the world. And no one likes a small piece of pie. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 19, 2018

Nike CIO departs to join pharma giant Merck

While retail and pharma have a lot in common, Jim Scholefield will be moving into a company where supply chain discipline is tighter.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 19, 2018

Microsoft had to 'eat its own dog food' to modernize its portfolio

The company had to adopt at scale the technologies, software and services it sold its customers. 

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 18, 2018

Facebook attackers accessed personal data of 29M users in breach

The breach of tens of millions of users' personal information is a huge bump in the road for a company that has been grappling with user trust and privacy issues this year.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 12, 2018

Google+ resurrected from consumer ashes for the enterprise

Google is emerging as a competitor in the enterprise communication space, setting itself up for the G Suite version of Microsoft Teams. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 12, 2018

Microsoft makes 60K patents open source to protect Linux

Open sourcing so many patents will free the company and Linux from entanglement in lawsuits with patent trolls. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018

Report: AWS inks $1B in deals, expanding existing partnerships with Symantec, SAP

Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud infrastructure and platforms market, Microsoft, reportedly vied for the Symantec deal as well, based off a memo reviewed by Bloomberg. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018

Cloudera, Hortonworks merger creates Hadoop leader amid framework's decline

Some hold a less rosy view of the merger given the declining prevalence of the Hadoop framework, an open-source software for data storage, orchestration and computing. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 5, 2018

At Black Girls Code, students learn to make jobs in tech, not get one

Kimberly Bryant started the nonprofit in 2011 after realizing that coding classes looked the same for her daughter as they did for her 20 years earlier: few girls, and even fewer girls of color.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 4, 2018

After Facebook's breach, attention turns toward motive and potential nation state perpetrators

The underlying data behind profiles — public or not — are ripe targets for malicious actors and those looking to spread misinformation.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 1, 2018

Key product exec departs Oracle, creating leadership roadblock for planned cloud dominance

Thomas Kurian reportedly pushed to make Oracle software more available on public clouds, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, in order to "diversify from [Oracle's] own struggling infrastructure."

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 1, 2018

Dreamforce 2018: Salesforce pushes for cross-platform ties, intelligence to the masses

Salesforce has demonstrated recognition of and efforts to solve the problem of tying together the customer experience.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 28, 2018

Microsoft declares Teams fastest growing app in company history

Though professionals in the technical landscape, like programmers, prefer the Slack experience, Microsoft has a hold on general enterprise users. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 28, 2018

Slack's latest acquisition brings email into the chat platform

In a strategic move, Slack has embraced email, the very workplace tool its platform aimed to overshadow. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 25, 2018

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Sept. 20, 2018

Lawyer who took on Google, Amazon files age discrimination complaint against IBM in SDNY

The complaint alleges IBM trimmed more than 20,000 jobs in the U.S. held by employees over the age of 40 across a five year span.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 18, 2018

Stripe, Slack maintain top spots in private cloud company rankings

A hundred private companies are on cloud nine after making the cut for Forbes annual Cloud 100 ranking, which featured 27 newcomers this year. 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 14, 2018

Microsoft launches Azure DevOps, striking on industry's process and buzzword obsession

The move represents Microsoft's adoption of the developer mindset, a key part of its GitHub acquisition.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 11, 2018

Google quickly surpasses Microsoft in serverless computing, but can it beat AWS?

Just three months in, GCP's quick upward trajectory in serverless computing demonstrates that it could "have a shot at taking on Amazon." 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 11, 2018