Insight News
April 12, 2017

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd Weighs In on HCM, Cloud Competition

Future of Work
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd is generally a quotable guy, and came across no differently this week at Oracle's HCM World conference during keynotes and a session with press and analyst...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
April 10, 2017

'Vigilante' Malware Brickerbot: Not the Answer for IoT Security

Tech Optimization
Last year, the IoT botnet Mirai was used in a number of high-profile DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of insecure Linux-b...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
April 10, 2017

Microsoft Makes Bet on Kubernetes with Deis Acquisition

Tech Optimization
Microsoft is building out its capabilities for the popular open-source container orchestration platform Kubernetes with the acquisition of Deis. Here are the details from a blog ...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
April 06, 2017

Twitter Courts Developers with Unified APIs, Better Transparency

Marketing Transformation
It's safe to say that Twitter has had a complex and at times contentious relationship with developers that want to integrate with and build on the social messenging service. In...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
April 05, 2017

Microsoft's Project Sopris Hones In on IoT Device Security

Tech Optimization
Microsoft is continuing to devote resources toward the hardware end of the IoT market, through a new research program aimed at making low-cost devices more secure. Dubbed Proje...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
April 03, 2017

Digging Into Cloudera's IPO Filing: Key Takeaways

Data to Decisions
Cloudera has filed its long-awaited S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paving the way for an IPO in the next several weeks. S-1 forms serve a dual purpos...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
March 29, 2017

New Google Open Source Project Portal Is A Gift to Enterprises

Tech Optimization
Google is the canonical example of a company that found commercial success through the use of open-source software. It's undertaken more than 2,000 open source projects over it...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 27, 2017

Stanford, MIT Researchers Develop System for Private Web Queries

Next-Generation Customer Experience
There have long been options for users seeking more privacy as they browse the web, from the anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo to the Tor secure browser. Now teams of rese...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
March 21, 2017

IBM Delivers 'First Enterprise-Ready' Blockchain Service

Matrix Commerce
IBM has claimed it has the lead in the increasingly competitive blockchain and distributed ledger technology market, saying the new release of its IBM Blockchain service is the...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
March 15, 2017

Concur Gets Deeper Into Traveler Risk Management

Future of Work
SAP's Concur subsidiary is expanding its play in traveler risk management, a key area of innovation in a world increasingly marked by political unrest, extreme weather and terr...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 14, 2017

Inside Intel's $15.3 Billion Bet On Mobileye

Tech Optimization
Intel has already been a key player in the IoT (Internet of Things) market but is looking to significantly strengthen its hand by plunking down $15.3 billion for MobilEye, make...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
March 09, 2017

Google Moving to More Flexible Support Model for Cloud Platform

Tech Optimization
Google has shaken up the way it offers and prices support to enterprises in a bid to win more business and differentiate from the competition. The company made the announcement a...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 06, 2017

IBM to Launch Commercial Quantum Computing Business

Tech Optimization
IBM is doubling down on its stake in the nascent quantum computing market, announcing plans to build commercially available universal quantum systems. It's a bold but not unexp...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 02, 2017

Docker Launches Enterprise Edition of Its Container Technology

Tech Optimization
Docker has taken a major step toward broader and deeper corporate adoption with the release of an enterprise ediition of its open-source application container platform. Here ar...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 01, 2017

The Key Takeaways from Salesforce's Q4

Data to Decisions
Salesforce reported its Q4 and full-year earnings this week, and as a leading tech bellwether and the industry's largest pure SaaS vendor, it's always worth paying attention. W...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 01, 2017

AWS Storage Service Outage: Assessing the Fallout

Next-Generation Customer Experience
As you've probably heard, Amazon Web Services' had a bit of an outage this week. Problems with its Simple Storage Service in the US-EAST-1 region caused a large number of promi...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller