Software
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Cisco evolving its product portfolio and the 'strategy is working,' CEO says
The company has embraced overhauling its product portfolio, revamping offerings for a more security-conscious world.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 16, 2018
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Hollywood rolls out red carpet for open source developers
Developers would like to thank the Academy … and Linux.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 14, 2018
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Foundation that brought industry Kubernetes graduates 2nd tool: Prometheus
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's project has more than 13,000 commits from its user base and 1,000 contributors.
By Alex Hickey • Aug. 10, 2018
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To make systems safer, put more bugs in them
New York University security researchers found chaff bugs can be designed as "non-exploitable" when conditions are constrained and controlled.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 08, 2018
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How the MINDBODY app is changing business technology for the wellness industry
CIOs are often tasked with conveying their company's message through technology and the fitness industry is not any different.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 02, 2018
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What a sale of GE Digital assets would mean for the enterprise
There are likely avenues for how a sale would play out — sell in pieces or as a block — and who buyers will be.
By Alex Hickey • Aug. 01, 2018
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Microsoft increasing Office 2019, Windows 10 Enterprise prices and 'it's all bad news for the enterprise buyer'
The biggest impact of the price changes will hit customers who have not yet transitioned to per user pricing models and still purchase licenses per device.
By Naomi Eide • July 30, 2018
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OpinionReal risks of using file transfer protocol
The newest technology for B2B data exchange is managed file transfer protocol, an industry best secure communications framework.
By Chandra Shekhar
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Deep DiveHow Slack and Atlassian landed a 'sharp jab' in Microsoft's ribs
By Microsoft's standards, the partnership is not something that will rattle its bones, but for Slack, this is an entryway to more enterprise customers, and that's Microsoft's turf.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 30, 2018
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End of an era: Atlassian bows to Slack, divests chat platform IP
Atlassian is working with Slack to migrate existing customers away from Stride and HipChat and close down its HipChat servers and data center.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 27, 2018
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Malicious actors seeking exploits in SAP and Oracle ERP applications on the rise, US warns
Over the last three years, public exploitations of SAP and Oracle ERP apps have increased by 100%, according to new research.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 26, 2018
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Deep DiveThe evolution of the CRM market and why Salesforce heads it
It's taken about 30 years for customer relationship management to go from Rolodexes to artificial intelligence.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 23, 2018
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Voice tech adoption lags in the workplace, study says
Only 55% of key decision-makers feel prepared to implement voice-powered technologies to improve their organization's internal or customer service operations.
By Robert Williams • July 19, 2018
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Microsoft offers free version of Teams, hitting on Slack's selling point
Slack is often credited as a pioneer, but despite its launch about two years before Teams, Microsoft's product dominates the market.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 13, 2018
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Security, SaaS, cloud lead IT investment
After 10 years of top rankings, Microsoft was again identified as the most strategic vendor, according to a Goldman Sachs survey.
By Alex Hickey • July 10, 2018
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 tweaked updates allow customers to test out changes before deployment
The company is following the update routines of Windows 10 and Office 365 with biannual updates for its ERP and CRM suite.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 10, 2018
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RPA is having a moment: What you need to know about the automation technology
Robotic process automation gained steam in the past few years as vendors worked to automate rote tasks, such as data entry or financial calculations.
By Naomi Eide • July 09, 2018
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What is WPA3 and why should businesses care?
The Wi-Fi protection protocol includes improved network resiliency, protective management frames for critical workloads and 192-bit cryptographic strength.
By Alex Hickey • June 26, 2018
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What collaborations with Facebook and Slack say about the HR tech market
As industry competition heats up, platforms are opting to team together rather than fight it out. But what does that mean for the profession overall?
By Kathryn Moody • June 25, 2018
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Dropbox after more industry verticals, this time targeting media, entertainment
Media and entertainment as a vertical has unique challenges because of the vast array of content types, file sizes and the increasingly global nature of work.
By Naomi Eide • June 20, 2018
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Deep DiveAt C.H. Robinson, open source adoption brings iterative, fast development — almost too fast
In 2014, the company faced a roadblock: How do you remove bottlenecks in the technology development pipeline?
By Naomi Eide • June 19, 2018
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DevOps praised, but divisions between development, operations hold fast
Technologists may evangelize the merits of DevOps, but without enterprise process changes, companies will remain slow to adopt the methodology.
By Naomi Eide • June 15, 2018
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Tell me I'm pretty: Microsoft rolls out Office 365 user experience updates
The announcement comes shortly after Google's Gmail renovations in April as both companies react to a push around improved user engagement.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 14, 2018
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How Spotify is migrating from an in-house Docker orchestration platform to Kubernetes
The company started small, experimenting with a few services on Kubernetes clusters then moving up to more complex workloads and self-service migration.
By Alex Hickey • June 12, 2018
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Incoming GitHub CEO: 'Fear' stopped Microsoft from embracing open source earlier
There's a lot riding on the GitHub acquisition "because if Microsoft screws this up, we will lose the trust of developers for a generation," Nat Friedman said.
By Naomi Eide • June 12, 2018