Moving to the McCloud: How McDonald's pulled off a digital transformation

Every Big Mac, french fry and nugget is feeding a massive data platform, and the fast food company is using cloud and ETL to make sense of it.

By Alex Hickey • May 10, 2018

Will confidential computing incentivize companies to move more sensitive data to the cloud?

Google launched an open-source framework to develop applications in trusted execution environments, a new level of security for sensitive workloads and information.

By Alex Hickey • May 3, 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.

By CIO Dive staff

AWS, Python, Java top list of in-demand cloud skills

The top 10 skills demonstrate high demand for engineers familiar with the top IaaS providers and automation, containerization and cloud management.

By Alex Hickey • May 3, 2018

How corporate cultures stack up in cloud companies

More companies with distributed workforces are overcoming culture and employee satisfaction challenges, topping lists of best companies to work for.

By Alex Hickey • May 2, 2018

Marc Jacobs: Hybrid cloud solutions — so haute right now

The hybrid cloud approach has helped make 92% of Marc Jacobs' invoices correctly route to the approver within five days instead of 90 days.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 26, 2018

Microsoft Azure prepares data subject request capabilities for GDPR

The company rolled out tools across Azure and Office 365 enterprise platforms to help customers comply with data rights in the upcoming EU regulation.

By Alex Hickey • April 17, 2018

Top 3 factors CIOs should consider when looking at SD-WAN

Cloud services and virtualization across traditional WAN architectures has led to performance bottlenecks. Enter software-defined wide area network, one of the hottest networking technologies.

By Ed Fox • April 16, 2018

How AppNexus is upgrading storage infrastructure to get ready for Kubernetes

A reduction in the number of servers being used translates to a reduction in spending, boosting the bottom line for the online advertising company.

By Alex Hickey • April 13, 2018

Why Microsoft is beefing up its IoT and AI cloud offerings

CEO Satya Nadella has hammered out a roadmap for the company centered on enterprise clients with a focus on artificial intelligence technologies. 

By Alex Hickey • April 12, 2018

Digital transformation: Necessary vs. sufficient

Turning a company into a digital business is the only thing that really matters right now. CIOs know it, and they need a lot of help.

By Jim Haar • April 9, 2018

With CLOUD Act, Microsoft's Supreme Court case outcome 'moot'

The new law "is ultimately a complete answer to the outcome of the Microsoft case,” codifying the government's position.

By Alex Hickey • April 3, 2018

Life after Windows: Microsoft reorg pushes intelligent, cloud-ready everything

Part of the reshuffle includes the departure of long-time Microsoft executive Terry Myerson, who leads the current Windows and Devices group. 

By Naomi Eide • March 29, 2018

GoDaddy goes 'all in' with AWS

This is only AWS' second big client announcement of 2018 after Comcast made it the "preferred public cloud infrastructure provider" in mid-January.

By Alex Hickey • March 29, 2018

Microsoft trails Cisco in the collaboration market even after a cloud boost

Despite so much of enterprise collaboration turning to the cloud, traditional, on-site solutions remain the ones to beat.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 28, 2018

Dropbox pops 35% in public debut on the road to profitability

The company must continue to flip freemium customers into paid seats and level the playing field with other offerings in the market.

By Naomi Eide • March 26, 2018

Is Google getting ready to make a splash in blockchain?

After years of heavy investment and research, reports are circulating that the Google is looking for blockchain applications for its cloud platform.

By Alex Hickey • March 22, 2018

Dropbox targets vertical sectors, back office integrations on the road to IPO

While the company is taking a vertical industry approach to new integrations, there is room for growth across SaaS suites, including HR and ERP.

By Naomi Eide • March 21, 2018

Atlassian moved its entire infrastructure to AWS for cloud-native customers

The collaboration company's old infrastructure simply did not support cloud-based customers, which make up 75% of all new customers.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 20, 2018

What to know about Zscaler, Wall Street's latest tech darling

The 10-year-old company was built on the premise that security needed to reflect how users interact with applications as technology shifted away from the data center.

By Naomi Eide • March 19, 2018

Only 4 services account for 85% of all cloud spend, with AWS EC2 leading the pack

In Cloudability​'s analysis of 1,500 companies' cloud usage, 59% relied on EC2, followed by EBS, RDS and S3.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 15, 2018

Coty turned to the cloud to integrate 12K employees after a major acquisition

The move to Microsoft 365 decreased Coty's dependence on local hardware and increased users' ability to "be productive anywhere," said George Katsouris, global IT VP, operations and services at Coty.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 14, 2018

How Coca-Cola migrated from a single data warehouse to global application deployment

After choosing the microservices architecture best suited for the company, Coca-Cola turned to a DevOps-based model.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 14, 2018

NCAA's IT team transitions from back office order-taker to leader and innovator

"I'm hoping that the IT at the NCAA takes more of a leadership role, [that] we start getting ahead of conversations," said CIO Judd Williams. 

By Alex Hickey • March 13, 2018

After 1 year, Microsoft Teams racks up 200K customers including Macy's, General Motors

The communication platform is used by organizations worldwide and is available in 39 languages.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 13, 2018

Blockchain, AI and cloud helped pull IBM out of its revenue rut

Big Blue turned to blockchain to capitalize on the enterprise's desire to "improve trust, transparency and speed" in the supply chain, according to CFO James Kavanaugh.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 12, 2018