Cloud leadership, strategy sets apart leaders from laggards

Though cloud leaders agree the technology aids in revenue growth and offers a competitive edge, fully committing is still resisted.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 26, 2018

The market's been waiting, but will Dropbox 'achieve or maintain' profit?

After years of speculation, the content collaboration platform filed paperwork Friday to go public, looking to raise $500 million in its IPO. 

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 23, 2018

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Digital transformation goes beyond technology — if companies want to engage in a new era of technology, they must rethink how work is done too.

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Ahead of US v. Microsoft, CLOUD Act offers glimpse at proposed legal changes for data storage

Regardless of outdated laws, the Microsoft case and CLOUD Act center around an increasingly prominent problem: Few businesses can operate without digital platforms.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 22, 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

100 days to GDPR: How Box got ready

Companies need to begin looking at data protection as a combination of data security and data privacy, according to Crispen Maung, VP of compliance at Box.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 14, 2018

Is multi-cloud the answer? Most companies are using up to 5

Optimizing existing cloud use is a priority for the majority of Rightscale's respondents, particularly because users waste 35% of spend. 

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 14, 2018

For competiton's sake, Walmart turned to proprietary cloud model

Not every organization is capable of building out a cloud network from scratch. The prohibitive infrastructure costs and the risk of crippling outages led many businesses to turn to cloud service providers.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 14, 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

Oracle pushes autonomous cloud assets amidst geographic expansion

The company's push centers around making its portfolio of cloud services "self-driving, self-securing and self-repairing" for operational functions like patching, backups and upgrades. 

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 13, 2018

Better cloud enterprise content management UX is changing the way we work

ECM deployment is not yet an entirely democratic affair within many businesses, but at the very least, most companies know they can no longer ignore end users' reactions to a product. 

By Stéphane Donzé • 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

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

44% of cloud apps exposed to at least one malware strand

About one-third of organizations had at least one threat identified in a SaaS application, according to a new Bitglass report. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 7, 2018

Microsoft offers free OneDrive to lure Dropbox, Google Drive, Box customers

Unlike some competitors' solutions, OneDrive is not solely available on public clouds, allowing increased accessibility to more customers. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 7, 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

Google, AWS, Microsoft earnings are in, and cloud is up up and away

Last year saw the biggest cloud players continuing to grow their shares of the cloud market at the expense of smaller players.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 2, 2018

AWS holding on to customer base with the oldies but goodies

The fastest-growing products year-over-year in 2017 were Amazon X-Ray, Amazon Elastic File System and Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 1, 2018

Into the woods: Columbia Sportswear adopts Microsoft cloud

The company intends to use the Microsoft platforms to drive insight from consumer behaviors, wholesale businesses, e-commerce and physical store locations.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 31, 2018

In 'lead-to-cash' push, SAP acquires CallidusCloud for $2.4B

By adding to its portfolio, CallidusCloud aligns SAP more closely with its competitors, including Oracle, Salesforce, Workday and IBM.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 30, 2018

There's an app for that, but is there a service?

Security challenges have remained largely unchanged year-over-year, but confidence in the security of expanding multi-cloud environments is waning.

By Alex Hickey • 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

Alibaba, Microsoft score a 'B' in AI

Both tech companies said their AI systems managed to score over 82% in a Stanford reading and comprehension test, deemed a "human score."

By Dan O'Shea • Jan. 24, 2018

Google rolls out ML, security and Salesforce tools

From democratizing AI and ML one step further to branching out interoperability with a major software provider, Google is beefing up its enterprise cloud offerings.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 18, 2018