Google enterprise lead leaving division for company's VR team

Amit Singh, president of Google for Work, will run business and operations for the virtual reality team. 

By Justine Brown • May 15, 2016

'Change is hard': 4 takeaways from the CA Technologies Government Summit

This week, the software company hosted their government summit, with panels discussing topics like IT budget constraints and the challenges of the modern threat landscape. 

By Naomi Eide • May 13, 2016

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To boost interest in cybersecurity, Facebook makes hacking game open source

The social network hopes that by opening up its hacking game, more people will become interested in cybersecurity, including the next generation of tech professionals. 

By Justine Brown • May 12, 2016

7 departing FDIC employees took 160,000 US residents' personal bank account info with them

FDIC CIO Lawrence Gross Jr. told a congressional oversight subcommittee Thursday that he believed the data breaches were "inadvertent."

By Justine Brown • May 12, 2016

Pentagon growing its tech startup collaboration 'experiment'

The effort will include a new East Coast office for the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental in addition to its Mountain View, California office.   

By Justine Brown • May 12, 2016

McClatchy publishing chain moving IT jobs to India

The work is increasingly commoditized as companies struggle to compete.

By Justine Brown • May 10, 2016

FireEye names new CEO following continued market struggles

David DeWalt, CEO and chairman of the board, is stepping down on June 15 but is staying with the company to assume the title of executive chairman. 

By Justine Brown • May 9, 2016

Report: Hiring hard-to-find open source talent a recruitment priority

As interest in open source technology grows in the enterprise, 65% of HR managers surveyed said hiring for open source roles will increase more than any other area in the next six months.

By Justine Brown • May 5, 2016

Is Agile on the way out?

One expert thinks that Agile Software Development has become a marketing term, "co-opted to improve sales." 

By Justine Brown • May 5, 2016

Companies need to quickly modernize to survive, EMC executive says

Speaking at EMC World this week, David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure, said companies need a modern data center to adapt traditional workloads for the cloud and to better host cloud-based workloads.

By Justine Brown • May 5, 2016

Microsoft CEO explains why the company is suing the US government

Satya Nadella, the company's CEO, said that the government needs to protect citizens' security without overreach.

By Justine Brown • May 4, 2016

Female tech leaders create 'Project Include' to improve diversity in Silicon Valley

Many of the women involved in Project Include were already leading diversity efforts at their respective companies.

By Justine Brown • May 4, 2016

Meet Dell Technologies, the Dell-EMC rebrand

The merger will also create sub-brands, including Dell EMC, the name for the company's enterprise business.

By Naomi Eide • May 2, 2016

Industry group says Pentagon CIO's Windows 10 praise constitutes 'unethical endorsement'

The Software and Information Industry Association says CIO Terry Halvorsen’s comments are a commercial endorsement for the operating system.

By Justine Brown • May 1, 2016

Walmart SVP: Tech talent is easy to find, just 'recruit from within'

Some organizations have challenged the reported "tech talent shortage" and say companies just aren’t looking hard enough.

By Justine Brown • April 29, 2016

Report: VMware cloud leader departs, to be replaced by two 'co-general managers'

The cloud outlook has been hazy for VMware, as the pending Dell-EMC merger would create cloud redundancies between the three companies.

By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016

Symantec CEO departs as security company struggles to evolve

In addition to announcing the leadership change, the company also lowered its revenue guidance. 

By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016

Mapping the tech C-suite: What it takes to keep corporate IT running smoothly

With constant security demands and the need to innovate to stay competitive, the tech C-suite increasingly has to work together in the rapidly accelerating world of digital technologies.

By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016

The Future of Work: How new tools created the virtual workplace

Offices may not be disappearing, exactly, but new technology could mean the end of the office as we know it today.

By Kathryn Moody , Naomi Eide • April 28, 2016

New federal cybersecurity rules moving too slow, senators say

Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Tom Carper, D-Del., sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget this week voicing their frustrations that the lack of a new policy is preventing federal agencies from better protecting their networks.

By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016

House passes Email Privacy Act, 419-0

Though the legislation was unanimously passed in the House, it faces an uncertain future in the Senate. 

By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg join others in pushing Congress to improve K-12 tech education

More than 1,400 supporters have signed a petition pushing for funds to improve computer science education. 

By Justine Brown • April 27, 2016

Report: Google to launch in-house incubator to help retain employees

Though the company has not confirmed the project, Area 120 would allow approved employees to work on side projects full time. 

By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016

To address skill set demand, OpenStack Foundation to offer certification program

Huge growth in the popularity of the open source IaaS platform prompted OpenStack to initiate a formal training program.

By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016

NASA's defenses weakened from revolving door of security leadership, inspector general says

Over the past year and a half, NASA has had three "acting" senior security officers in the CIO's department.

By Justine Brown • April 21, 2016