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Tech talent pool lures Amazon HQ2, HQ3 to New York and Virginia
After a year of speculation, secrecy and teasing, the retail and cloud giant announced New York City and Northern Virginia will be homes to its newest headquarters.
By Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Nov. 13, 2018 -
TBM software company Apptio set for $1.9B acquisition
The deal with Vista Equity Partners includes a month-long "go-shop" period during which Apptio's board can solicit and evaluate alternative acquisition proposals.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 12, 2018 -
SAP buys Qualtrics for $8B, giving global scale to experience management data
Qualtrics expects to exceed $400 million in revenue for FY18, with a growth rate greater than 40% year-over-year.
By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 12, 2018 -
Reports: Amazon to split HQ2 between NYC, Northern Virginia
The split reportedly comes with Amazon wanting to make it easier to recruit talent in the technology sector.
By Chris Teale • Nov. 6, 2018 -
3 cities in 'late-stage' talks to win Amazon HQ2
Reports suggest the winning location could end up in Dallas, New York or Arlington County, Virginia — but Amazon remains tight-lipped.
By Kristin Musulin • Nov. 5, 2018 -
Intel says it met 'full representation' in its diversity goals, but what does that mean?
The company's announcement points to a wider industry struggle: Most talent pipelines are not structured to encourage the growth of minorities in tech.
By Valerie Bolden-Barrett , Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 2, 2018 -
Red Hat acquisition is hybrid, open source power play for IBM, but it must tread carefully
Is a Red Hat acquisition enough to make IBM one of the "cool kids" of open source and the "Switzerland" of cloud?
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2018 -
Retrieved from Amazon on July 05, 2018
Migration lessons learned: Even Amazon can face mishaps with new tools
The biggest mistake companies make when contemplating a database migration is concluding all databases are generic.
By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 30, 2018 -
IBM's $34B Red Hat acquisition takes over hybrid cloud market
Big Blue will remain committed to Red Hat's open source model, helping scale its technology to global enterprises.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 29, 2018 -
Cloud infrastructure services up on the year, down on the quarter
Quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue surpassed $17 billion, including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, according to Synergy Research Group.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2018 -
Mega cybersecurity coalition courts Walmart, Microsoft for next-generation defense
The coalition is looking to integrate cybersecurity from product design, using it as an active part of the business rather than a defense mechanism.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 23, 2018 -
Can CIOs solve the technical vacuum on many boards of directors?
CIOs, CTOs and directors with other IT backgrounds constitute a very slim piece of board leadership pies around the world. And no one likes a small piece of pie.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 19, 2018 -
Nike CIO departs to join pharma giant Merck
While retail and pharma have a lot in common, Jim Scholefield will be moving into a company where supply chain discipline is tighter.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 19, 2018 -
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Microsoft had to 'eat its own dog food' to modernize its portfolio
The company had to adopt at scale the technologies, software and services it sold its customers.
By Naomi Eide • Oct. 18, 2018 -
Facebook attackers accessed personal data of 29M users in breach
The breach of tens of millions of users' personal information is a huge bump in the road for a company that has been grappling with user trust and privacy issues this year.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 12, 2018 -
Google+ resurrected from consumer ashes for the enterprise
Google is emerging as a competitor in the enterprise communication space, setting itself up for the G Suite version of Microsoft Teams.
By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 12, 2018 -
Microsoft makes 60K patents open source to protect Linux
Open sourcing so many patents will free the company and Linux from entanglement in lawsuits with patent trolls.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018 -
Retrieved from Amazon on October 09, 2018
Report: AWS inks $1B in deals, expanding existing partnerships with Symantec, SAP
Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud infrastructure and platforms market, Microsoft, reportedly vied for the Symantec deal as well, based off a memo reviewed by Bloomberg.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018 -
Cloudera, Hortonworks merger creates Hadoop leader amid framework's decline
Some hold a less rosy view of the merger given the declining prevalence of the Hadoop framework, an open-source software for data storage, orchestration and computing.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 5, 2018 -
At Black Girls Code, students learn to make jobs in tech, not get one
Kimberly Bryant started the nonprofit in 2011 after realizing that coding classes looked the same for her daughter as they did for her 20 years earlier: few girls, and even fewer girls of color.
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 4, 2018 -
After Facebook's breach, attention turns toward motive and potential nation state perpetrators
The underlying data behind profiles — public or not — are ripe targets for malicious actors and those looking to spread misinformation.
By Naomi Eide • Oct. 1, 2018 -
Key product exec departs Oracle, creating leadership roadblock for planned cloud dominance
Thomas Kurian reportedly pushed to make Oracle software more available on public clouds, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, in order to "diversify from [Oracle's] own struggling infrastructure."
By Alex Hickey • Oct. 1, 2018 -
Dreamforce 2018: Salesforce pushes for cross-platform ties, intelligence to the masses
Salesforce has demonstrated recognition of and efforts to solve the problem of tying together the customer experience.
By Alex Hickey • Sept. 28, 2018 -
Microsoft declares Teams fastest growing app in company history
Though professionals in the technical landscape, like programmers, prefer the Slack experience, Microsoft has a hold on general enterprise users.
By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 28, 2018 -
Slack's latest acquisition brings email into the chat platform
In a strategic move, Slack has embraced email, the very workplace tool its platform aimed to overshadow.
By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 25, 2018
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