Slack takes $8M revenue hit for customer credits after failing to meet uptime commitment

The company offers credits back to customers if it fails to meet its 99.99% uptime commitment. 

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 5, 2019

VMware's Kubernetes Academy pushes the company's container orchestration play

The company is betting on an "any cloud, any device" strategy, serving as a technology-agnostic layer between large-scale cloud service providers. 

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 29, 2019

Why IBM's CIO values IT product design over 'expensive transformation projects'

"When did it become okay to live like the 'Jetsons' at home and the 'Flintstones' at work?" asked IBM CIO Fletcher Previn. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 27, 2019

Onus for cloud security falls on customers, but AWS could do more, CISO says

Only customers have a true sense of "what they intended with resources under their control," AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt said, in response to the Senate inquiry of AWS' role in Capital One's data breach. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 20, 2019

How Zoom became one of this year's biggest tech IPOs

CFO Kelly Steckelberg discusses how she organized operations to support sales and product development, leading to a successful public debut.

By Robert Freedman • Aug. 16, 2019

Cloudflare's IPO bets on specialization in market dominated by full-stack giants

The network delivery service provider sits in a saturated market, up against on-premise network vendors and cloud service providers.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 16, 2019

Broadcom banks on software-defined future with Symantec buy

Broadcom will weave Symantec's enterprise business into its expansive portfolio, as it makes the transition from a hardware- to a software-focused provider.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 13, 2019

S&P: List 4 tariffs could cause major tech firms to raise prices or shift production

Cisco, Dell, HP and Seagate are particularly at risk, as funds directed to moving global supply chains lead to less money available to invest in R&D.

By Morgan Forde • Aug. 9, 2019

Broadcom to buy Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B

Symantec is coming off a year of leadership changes and a lagging enterprise division as businesses rethink cybersecurity solutions providers. 

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 8, 2019

Microsoft, Informatica take on cloud analytics migrations

Enterprise analytics is going through a "renaissance" as companies work to manage and analyze collected data to determine patterns, said Microsoft's John "JG" Chirapurath.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 6, 2019

Azure bug bounty reaches $40K, Microsoft encourages participants to 'do their worst'

The Azure Security Lab isolates research so individuals can look for vulnerabilities and exploit them.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 6, 2019

HPE acquires MapR assets, extending lifeline to troubled analytics company

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will own MapR's technology, intellectual property, data analytics solutions and "domain expertise" in AI and ML.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 5, 2019

Microsoft will shutter Skype for Business Online in 2021, making Teams its heir

The company will spend the next two years adding integration capabilities to Teams as it looks to convince existing users to migrate.

By Roberto Torres • July 31, 2019

What Facebook's $5B FTC settlement means for Zuckerberg, third parties and corporate structure

The social network essentially had its data privacy standards set by "their most click-happy friend," said Gustav Eyler, director at the Department of Justice.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 25, 2019

Research indicates Teams' rise and Slack's fall while other players vie in the background

"Teams is Slack, so why buy Slack?" asked Thomas DelVecchio, founder and CEO of ETR. 

By Samantha Schwartz • July 23, 2019

Equifax to pay up to $650M in 'largest data breach settlement in history'

"Equifax put profits over privacy and greed over people," said New York Attorney General Letitia James.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 22, 2019

SAP extends hardware deal with Intel as part of broader partnership push

The Intel partnership could mean a smoother transition for users looking to deploy SAP's ERP software.

By Roberto Torres • July 19, 2019

Netflix outlines how it spent $1.5B on tech in 2018

The "majority" of the tech budget is a fixed cost investment, allocated for Netflix's business growth, said Gregory Peters, Netflix's chief product officer.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 19, 2019

Target brings in Facebook vet to lead tech ops

Hari Govind will oversee cloud computing, network connectivity and operations for technology throughout the retailer's business. 

By Ben Unglesbee • July 16, 2019

Amazon, the Marines and community college partner on data training

Billed as "nontraditional" military training, the program reflects the use of Amazon's cloud platform for tech education at community colleges.

By Hallie Busta • July 15, 2019

Google Cloud adds sales head for North America amid platform maturity push

With a flurry of acquisitions and leadership additions, Google Cloud is seeing its CEO's efforts to grow the platform and sales play out.

By Naomi Eide • July 12, 2019

Microsoft Teams daily users surpass 13M, but don't count out Slack

At 10 million daily users, Slack is a vendor-neutral tool that makes integrations simple and vendor lock-in less of a concern.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 12, 2019

British Airways, Marriott International set the stage for GDPR fines outside tech industry

"GDPR is designed to protect consumers and their data," said Tim Erlin, VP of product management and strategy at Tripwire. "The type of company holding that data is irrelevant."

By Samantha Schwartz • July 11, 2019

How do regulators calculate GDPR fines? An explainer

Individual fines are determined by multiple factors, but the clearest criteria is the type of infringement: Was it intentional or negligent?

By Samantha Schwartz • July 11, 2019

GDPR strikes again: Marriott International faces $124M fine

The ICO stated that Marriott's data breach was a result of a failure to "undertake sufficient due diligence when it bought Starwood and should have done more to secure its systems." 

By Samantha Schwartz • July 9, 2019