Oracle leans on private cloud to fortify enterprise security, data sovereignty

“We expect that private clouds will greatly outnumber public clouds,” Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 10, 2024

AT&T takes Broadcom to court over VMware support services dispute

The telecommunications company claims it is being bullied into “paying a king’s ransom” for software it does not want or need, according to the complaint.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 5, 2024

CrowdStrike takes a revenue hit as global IT outage reckoning lingers

Sales are taking longer to close and the cybersecurity vendor is offering discounts to stem potential customer losses.

By Matt Kapko • Aug. 29, 2024

After a wave of attacks, Snowflake insists security burden rests with customers

The cloud-based data warehouse vendor remains “slightly muted” about the attacks on its customers because Snowflake wasn’t breached, CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said.

By Matt Kapko • Aug. 22, 2024

Palo Alto Networks CEO touts leads from CrowdStrike fallout

In the wake of the massive IT outage, some CrowdStrike customers have entered talks with Palo Alto Networks in search of a new provider.

By David Jones • Aug. 20, 2024

Companies aren’t as cyber resilient as they think

Most companies fall short on business continuity as malicious threat activity continues to rise, a Cohesity study found.

By David Jones • Aug. 19, 2024

3 CIO lessons for maximizing cybersecurity investments

Securing resources has gotten easier, said Feroz Merchhiya, City of Santa Monica CIO. But that hasn't diminished tech leaders' role in showing the value.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Aug. 16, 2024

Answering the big post-outage question: “Are we all patching wrong?”

Adaptiva CEO Deepak Kumar answers pressing patching questions in light of the recent global outage.

Aug. 13, 2024

Delta expects $380M revenue hit due to CrowdStrike outage

The company said it canceled 7,000 flights in five days due to the IT outage, according to a Thursday securities filing.

By Roberto Torres • Updated Aug. 8, 2024

CrowdStrike blames mismatch in Falcon sensor update for global IT outage

The security company, in its root cause analysis report, said it is using lessons from the crash to make larger changes. Analysts predict further challenges.

By David Jones • Aug. 7, 2024

Microsoft spends billions on infrastructure to relieve Azure capacity constraints

The hyperscaler is working with third-party data centers to satisfy AI demand, CFO Amy Hood said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2024

American Airlines credits IT teams with quick recovery from CrowdStrike disruption

“Within an hour of the outage, we assembled the right operating teams and IT experts to develop and execute a plan to get our systems back online,” COO David Seymour said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • July 25, 2024

United completes manual reboot as aviation industry reels from CrowdStrike outages

The airline’s IT teams fixed more than 26,000 computers and devices at 365 airports globally, according to CEO Scott Kirby.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2024

Top takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage for IT teams

"This may be the biggest stress test that I've ever seen for direct, first-line IT support teams," Gartner's Jon Amato said. 

By Roberto Torres • Updated July 23, 2024

Delta’s CrowdStrike recovery stymied by crew-tracking systems failure

The carrier lagged behind other airlines in its efforts to restore operations, canceling thousands of flights over the weekend.

By Matt Ashare • July 22, 2024

CrowdStrike software update at the root of a massive global IT outage

A defective software update led to major disruptions in aviation, banking and other industries Friday as Microsoft 365 services were impacted worldwide.

By David Jones , Roberto Torres • Updated July 19, 2024

As CISOs grapple with the C-suite, job satisfaction takes a hit

Research found CISO job satisfaction has direct ties to how much — or little — access security leaders have to company management.

By Sue Poremba • July 15, 2024

To fill cybersecurity skills gaps, experts look to novel measures

The pace of change is driving workforce skills gaps, and traditional learning pathways can't keep up with demand.

By Rosalyn Page • July 3, 2024

Cloud security becoming top priority for companies worldwide

The sensitivity of data placed in the cloud and application sprawl are two factors complicating security, Thales found.

By David Jones • June 25, 2024

Cyber, AI and data dominate upskilling priorities, Skillsoft finds

The three categories align with the positions businesses are having the greatest difficulty filling, according to the report.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 21, 2024

IT pros worry over the data that fuels AI

More than 2 in 5 technologists have already had a negative AI experience, according to a SolarWinds survey.

By Matt Ashare • June 18, 2024

Snowflake-linked attacks are testing the cloud’s shared responsibility status quo

Assigning responsibility for missing security controls is tricky. The burden is collective but cloud providers need to raise minimum standards, experts say.

By Matt Kapko • June 14, 2024

How much does unplanned IT downtime really cost?

Shutdown digital systems can take a bite out of revenue, but regulatory fines can hit, too, according to a Splunk report released Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • June 11, 2024

Clorox to restart ERP upgrade as it looks past August cyberattack

With the company out of recovery mode, teams are looking to advance on digital transformation projects. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 10, 2024

Pressure mounts on Snowflake and its customers as attacks spread

More businesses are likely impacted by an attacker’s access to multiple Snowflake customer databases.

By Matt Kapko • June 7, 2024