US v. Microsoft: How do you rule on the cloud when legislation is over 30 years old?

Supreme Court justices wrangled with federal and Microsoft attorneys at Tuesday's arguments, fixating on legislation in the works to address the outdated SCA and what locations are relevant to data disclosure.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 28, 2018

Mobile ransomware skyrockets 415% in 2017 on the heels of WannaCry's success

Mindless hacking is retiring as more targeted attacks took precedent in 2017. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 27, 2018

Oracle wants to take down IaaS leaders, but its success will always be SaaS-y

While its technology stack matures, Oracle has to convince its customer base and CIOs across sectors to adopt its cloud products. For now, Oracle is looking toward the marketability of autonomous features as the answer.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 22, 2018

It's a crunchy, competitive, grab bag of chips for the tech industry

Who's caching in on their chips? The field is complicated for anyone, so here's the quick who's who, what's new and hullabaloo of the chip industry in 2018.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 16, 2018

HP's Device as a Service now featuring, er, Apple products

Though at first glance it seems HP is pairing with a direct competitor, the company is realizing an opportunity. Apple is the de facto king of the mobile device world, and HP can tap into that market by providing support.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 16, 2018

Technology of love: Between the sheets of OkCupid's amorous applications

Big data, the cloud, cybersecurity and software may play a bigger role in your love life than you think.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 13, 2018

Public cloud workloads set to rise as private ones fall

The growth in cloud workloads indicates that more organizations are "moving from test environments to placing more of their mission-critical workloads and compute instances into the cloud."

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 12, 2018

Zettabytes of data hog up space and resources

Devices are expected to produce 847 zettabytes of data annually by 2021 — nearly four times the amount created in 2016.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 9, 2018

Hackers hijack water utility servers with 'cryptomining' malware

It is most likely kind of an "accident" after some hackers were scanning "the internet [to] look for processing resources and this was just the one," said Ilan Brada, CEO of Radiflow, in an interview with CIO Dive.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 9, 2018

LinkedIn still hasn't moved to Azure, continues to run its own data centers

The networking platform operates with a multi-colo model which manages its applications from several data center locations.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 9, 2018

Will the greatest feat at the Pyeongchang Olympics be staving off cyberattacks?

With disparate sets of temporary digital infrastructure and thousands of endpoints ripe for exploitation, the Winter Olympics is a veritable hub for cybercrime.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 8, 2018

Data centers still serving up modernization issues for federal IT

Maintaining legacy systems is both restrictive and expensive, and pressure from the White House is pushing agencies to more quickly adapt their networks to modern standards.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 6, 2018

Broadcom's 'best and final' $121B Qualcomm offer would be tech's biggest deal

Qualcomm's board unanimously rejected another "unsolicited" proposal in November and sent a letter to stockholders in late January advising them against "Broadcom's hostile takeover proposal."

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 5, 2018

Dell is considering its future strategy. What could it mean for CIOs?

Evaluating the risk profile associated with all vendors is part of the CIO's job, and ultimately Dell's business decisions cause IT leaders to ask, "what does this mean for my relationship with Dell?"

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 5, 2018

NFL CIO: Making the 2018 Super Bowl a win with technology

Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO of the NFL, and John Brams, director of Hospitality, Sports and Entertainment at Extreme Networks, spoke with CIO Dive about the technology going on behind the scenes Sunday.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 2, 2018

Eternally(Blue) for you: Botnet mines $3.6M in crypotcurrency

The botnet found its legs in the EternalBlue exploit — the same one that was used to spread the WannaCry malware attack.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 2, 2018

Do businesses need — or want — wireless networks to be a utility?

Whether or not the plan to nationalize 5G is still being considered, it raises important questions about how the digital infrastructure the economy increasingly relies on is built, who runs it and what forces shape its development.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 31, 2018

How the chip industry is keeping calm during a 'Meltdown'

The scope of the flaws outpaces Intel's ability to help all customers recover. But what happened leading up to Intel's second hold on security patches?

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 30, 2018

Intel will release Meltdown-resistant patches later this year

The company remains cautious about the financial impact the vulnerabilities could have on 2018 earnings. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 29, 2018

Maersk reconstructed entire IT infrastructure in 10 days following Nyetya

From the time of the attack in June to mid-August, the company had to effectively shut down various global Maersk Group operations. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 29, 2018

Failure of a major cloud provider would cost $15B. But could that happen?

Service disruptions can cause an hour or two of downtime, but Lloyd's projections of three to six days is unheard of.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 26, 2018

Intel advised companies to wait, but 70% already began Meltdown and Spectre patches

Since administering patches, more than one-third of those organizations experienced performance issues, according to a Spiceworks report.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 25, 2018

Please hold: Intel wants customers to again wait on Meltdown and Spectre patches

Intel is abandoning its initial patches after finding a "root cause" for reboot issues. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 22, 2018

Microsoft, Google start to do more than chip away at AWS' lead

The two tech giants reportedly carved out 6% of AWS' market share over the course of a year, and future investment plans may take a bigger bite out.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 17, 2018

Cisco augments IoT platform with software, analytics

"The value of the data should directly reflect to how much security you have in your system," said Dan Kent, Cisco's public sector CTO.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 16, 2018