Collaborate Disseminate
It’s the end of the year, and along with the grocery lists for parties and the lengthy wish lists from the kids, all good research analysts are building their lists of predictions for 2017. CompTIA will present a full slate of predictions in ou… Continue reading Looking into the Cloud-Based Future
It’s not exactly news to say that technology is a big deal for business these days. Even with a long history of companies using computing, there has recently been a tipping point in the world becoming digital and organizations following s… Continue reading A New Way of Thinking About IT
When you’re doing research, it’s great to see data that reinforces trends you’ve identified in the past. Especially with studies that are repeated on a regular basis, there’s hope and expectation that new findings will show st… Continue reading The Devil’s in the Details with Cloud
One of CompTIA’s themes in 2016 has been the business relevance of IT. Companies are transforming into digital organizations, and the increased reliance on technology as a strategic tool is elevating IT’s role and driving a need for new s… Continue reading Does IT Matter? Businesses are Betting on It
We review DEF CON 24, the main event of the show, the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge and why DEF CON may have jumped the shark.
After DockerCon, expect the popular virtualization platform to pop up nearly everywhere
Linux developers and admins have been singing the praises of Docker for a while: It’s a containerization service that removes much of the headaches of OS environment tweaking, making it easier for teams to collaborate on software development, to reliably deploy software, and many other common application tasks that should be easy in theory but which can become endlessly complicated in practice.
Now the rest of the world is getting a taste. At DockerCon, it was announced that the deployment automation tool was coming to users in all sorts of places:
Continue reading Docker everywhere: Container service comes to Windows, Mac, Azure, and AWS
At the intersection of international business, huge risks are not being addressed
In what was dubbed her “frankest assessment yet” of the cyber security risk, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White said that serious vulnerabilities have not been properly addressed in the national and global exchanges used to power the global financial system, and cyber attacks were the top threat facing it.
Continue reading SEC Chair Mary Jo White on cyber security risk: “We can’t do enough”
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Google is turning to artificial intelligence to make sure people keep using its search engine, even if they’re not spending as much time on the Web and per… Continue reading Google Embeds AI in New Products to Make Search Ubiquitous
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Microsoft Corp. and SAP SE are linking up their software products to make it easier for businesses to rent applications online and workers to manage travel and m… Continue reading Microsoft and SAP’s Cloud Computing Platforms to Interoperate
Amazon wants to remake the IT stack in its own image
Package delivery within an hour by drones. Terraforming Mars. Reworking the fundamentals of IT. Put in context with what else he wants to get done, Jeff Bezos’ ambition to remake IT in Amazon’s image of low cost, ultra-convenience, and near monopolistic domination seems almost reasonable.
And the world is starting to notice.
Continue reading Amazon’s AWS ambition: “What [Bezos] did to retail, he will do to IT.”