IT Strategy: Page 137
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Google brings on Disney and Coca Cola as cloud customers
The Google Cloud Platform is gaining momentum under the leadership of Diane Greene, who has made strides earning major enterprises as clients for the company.
By Justine Brown • March 24, 2016 -
Oracle sues HPE for alleged copyright infringement
The suit centers around a third-party maintenance and support dispute.
By Justine Brown • March 24, 2016 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineERP Modernization
ERP modernization can bring some disruption if not planned correctly. But the costs of aging, inefficient systems pose a bigger threat.
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Cisco to again reorganize its engineering unit
Cisco’s 25,000-person engineering unit was reshuffled just two years ago under former CEO John Chambers.
By Justine Brown • March 23, 2016 -
Uber offers hackers up to $10K to bust its system
The ride sharing company is joining several other large U.S. businesses working to reveal security flaws through “bug bounty” programs.
By Justine Brown • March 23, 2016 -
Report: Employees still the greatest security risk for most companies
Employee education may provide companies better protection against cyberattacks than any other measures.
By Justine Brown • March 23, 2016 -
More layoffs appear imminent for IBM employees in the UK
One analyst estimates that around 14,000 staff worldwide could be laid off from Big Blue by the end of the summer.
By Justine Brown • March 23, 2016 -
Deep Dive
3 quick tips for an incoming CIO
A new CIO can employ analytics and streamline daily operations as some first steps for ensuring their enterprise's technology is fluidly running.
By Justine Brown • March 22, 2016 -
GoDaddy goes after AWS with new cloud offerings
The web hosting company plans to offer "pay as you go" cloud services for smaller businesses.
By Justine Brown • March 21, 2016 -
IBM buys Optevia in continued effort to offset legacy business declines
Optevia specializes in customer relationship management solutions, particularly around implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the public sector.
By Justine Brown • March 20, 2016 -
Amazon Web Services turns 10, launches database migration service
Amazon is trying to make it easier for enterprises to move their data into the cloud.
By Justine Brown • March 15, 2016 -
#movingtoHTTPS: Google is now grading itself on encryption
More than 75% of requests to its servers use encrypted connections, the company said.
By Justine Brown • March 15, 2016 -
Transitioning off Amazon's cloud, Dropbox to rely on its own infrastructure
As of October 2015, the company said it was storing and serving 90% of users' data on its custom-built, internal cloud network.
By Justine Brown • March 14, 2016 -
Deep Dive
Why victory for Google's AlphaGo means big things for AI
After winning four of five Go matches against Lee Sedol, Google’s DeepMind is working to revolutionize machine learning.
By Justine Brown • March 14, 2016 -
At SXSW, Obama calls on tech industry to help government solve 'big problems'
President Barack Obama’s appearance at the festival was the first by a sitting president.
By Justine Brown • March 14, 2016 -
Industry group warns of potentially 'disruptive' new federal CISO role, calls for clear position definitions
Success of the new position would depend on top-down support and a clearly defined role, according to the committee.
By Justine Brown • March 13, 2016 -
With free database software, Microsoft tries to bait customers from Oracle
The company said businesses considering switching from Oracle can apply to get Microsoft’s new SQL server software for free.
By Justine Brown • March 11, 2016 -
Deep Dive
What's behind the Cisco and IBM shopping sprees?
Though they employ some of the brightest IT developers around, organizations like Cisco and IBM can choose to buy other companies rather than develop new services in-house.
By Justine Brown • March 10, 2016 -
Google joins Facebook's open source data center project
Companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Apple and HP are also involved in the Open Compute Project.
By Justine Brown • March 9, 2016 -
Deep Dive
2016 could be the year of cyber insurance
As cyberattacks increase in frequency, cyber insurance may become a mandatory investment for many businesses this year.
By Justine Brown • March 9, 2016 -
Open source or bust: Microsoft joins Eclipse
The company was traditionally the champion of closed-source software, but for the second time this week Microsoft has moved to adopt the open source movement.
By Justine Brown • March 9, 2016 -
Most tech giants slowed M&A activity in 2015
Microsoft had the most acquisitions of any big tech company in 2015.
By Justine Brown • March 8, 2016 -
Deep Dive
How Facebook is making data center hardware more green and business friendly
Using its custom-designed servers, power supplies, server racks and battery backup systems, Facebook has saved $2 billion.
By Justine Brown • March 7, 2016 -
Gartner: In enterprise cloud email, Microsoft is more popular than Google
The two companies have been battling to attract business customers to their cloud-based productivity tools.
By Justine Brown • March 6, 2016 -
Microsoft considered buying Slack for $8B
According to TechCruch, Microsoft instead opted to expand Skype's offerings.
By Justine Brown • March 6, 2016 -
CIO salaries continue to rise despite economic cooldown
Wages are stagnant in many industries, but technology’s ability to help companies grow their market share means many organizations are willing to pay well for a strong CIO.
By Justine Brown • March 6, 2016
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