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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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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 -
2018 enterprise technology IPOs: Fall update
The late spring and summer months brought a new crop of IPOs with six enterprise technology companies concentrated in the fields of cybersecurity and software as a service.
By Alex Hickey • Sept. 7, 2018 -
Big tech calls on Congress for privacy regulation, pushing back on state mandates
It's natural for big tech to get involved in regulation that has direct impacts, but regulation designed by those it's meant to regulate could prove useless.
By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 6, 2018 -
Atlassian's $295M OpsGenie acquisition grows incident response capabilities
After shaking up the communication platform market in July, the company is focusing on software tools dedicated to collaboration and management.
By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 5, 2018 -
The Information: Cloud prospects for Alibaba scaling back in US
Instead of looking to pull customers from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba will focus on multinational companies in the U.S. with cloud services needs in China.
By Alex Hickey • Sept. 4, 2018 -
As Einstein expands its reach, Salesforce focuses on 'ethical and humane' technology
The push for accountability comes on the heels of a petition for the company to drop its contract with Customs and Border Protection.
By Alex Hickey • Aug. 31, 2018