Deep Dive

Industry insights from our journalists

Build vs. buy: How AWS balances organic growth and strategic acquisitions

With few acquisitions, the cloud leader tends to rely on organic growth of new functionalities. But in the last month, AWS picked up steam with the purchases of CloudEndure and TSO Logic.
Alex Hickey • Jan. 18, 2019
What makes a company a 'tech company,' and is the title worth the responsibility?

Companies recognize the role technology plays in competition. And every industry wants in.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • Dec. 12, 2018
Dramatic or justified? Retailers' fears push cloud customers from AWS to Microsoft, Google

Though AWS and Amazon.com operate separately, retailers feel they could unintentionally add to a competitor's profit.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • Nov. 30, 2018
'Regulation without teeth is just a document': 6 months in, industry awaits major GDPR enforcement

Experts worry that without significant enforcement action in 2019, businesses could stop caring about the data privacy regulation.
Alex Hickey • Nov. 26, 2018
Empowered developers, cost savings drive serverless computing adoption

Developers spend 30% to 40% of their time working on or waiting for infrastructure, and serverless computing allows them to turn their attention elsewhere.
Alex Hickey • Nov. 19, 2018
Digital transformation is making CIOs culture custodians

Hacking culture can't be accomplished in one meeting. It's about small actions that are often overlooked and steadily shaping new mindsets.
Alex Hickey • Oct. 22, 2018
Modern-day bank robbing: How hackers are becoming public enemy No. 1

The internet is the getaway car and malware is the firearm.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 15, 2018
Why us? 6 months after ransomware attack Atlanta has no answers

It's possible a vulnerability was found during a random scan and a hacker said, "we got a live one here," according to a security advisor.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 04, 2018
Why aren't wages rising? An analysis

The economy has held steady for years and unemployment remains low, yet projected market responses have not materialized.
Kathryn Moody • Oct. 02, 2018
The corruption of DevOps

A hesitancy to invoke real organizational change to implement DevOps has created an underlying reliance on the vendor landscape.
Naomi Eide • Sept. 19, 2018
Sprechen Sie AI? How to cross language, cultural barriers in technology

As any language student who has ever copied and pasted a block of text into a translation program knows, pure machine translation is often fraught with error.
Alex Hickey • Sept. 12, 2018
The fight to overcome the 'not sexy' perception of industrial internet

Companies slow to adopt the industrial internet may have missed an early mover advantage — even if they staved off burning their fingers like some initial adopters.
Alex Hickey • Aug. 27, 2018
From acquisitions to audits: What's going on with Symantec?

Though Symantec's stock has taken a notable hit since May, its products remain viable. And yet the dark cloud of an audit remains.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 24, 2018
But what really is a quantum computer?

There are two classes of quantum computers: universal scalable and specialized. To pick one, first figure out what problem you're trying to solve.
Alex Hickey • Aug. 17, 2018
No CIO exists in a silo: What the private sector can learn from federal IT

Operational environments differ, but CIOs across all industries experience difficulties in the policies outlined by GAO. It's time for the private sector to take notice.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 13, 2018
Privacy is dead, long live privacy

After GDPR, experts and companies are trying to understand how data should be treated while injecting more privacy along the way. One solution is to treat data as currency.
Naomi Eide • Aug. 09, 2018
How Slack and Atlassian landed a 'sharp jab' in Microsoft's ribs

By Microsoft's standards, the partnership is not something that will rattle its bones, but for Slack, this is an entryway to more enterprise customers, and that's Microsoft's turf.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 30, 2018
How vulnerable is the grid to cyberattacks, really?

Experts say a recent DHS briefing that warned hackers could cause widespread blackouts may have overstated the threat.
Gavin Bade • July 25, 2018
The evolution of the CRM market and why Salesforce heads it

It's taken about 30 years for customer relationship management to go from Rolodexes to artificial intelligence.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 23, 2018
For TBM practitioners, IT finance is alluring and mission critical

Technology Business Management is gaining momentum because it encourages technology departments to operate like a business.
Naomi Eide • July 18, 2018
When it comes to privacy, California is out front. Will the rest of the country follow?

The privacy bill "takes the definition of what we've referred to as personally identifiable information and puts it on steroids," said Fouad Khalil, head of compliance at SecurityScorecard.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 16, 2018
Under the sea: Microsoft's submarine data centers

Cloud vendors are already using wind and solar solutions to conserve energy consumed by their servers. The next frontier, however, is in the ocean's waves.
Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 21, 2018
At C.H. Robinson, open source adoption brings iterative, fast development — almost too fast

In 2014, the company faced a roadblock: How do you remove bottlenecks in the technology development pipeline?
Naomi Eide • June 19, 2018
What's going on underneath your AI?

From hiring to customer service, artificial intelligence rules many domains that once required the delicate human touch.
Alex Hickey • June 14, 2018
Can tech drive engagement?

It's not tech tools that drive engagement, but the productivity enabled.
Pamela DeLoatch • June 12, 2018