Category Archives: SAP

Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco

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Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battled to deliver the tools businesses want to become more productive and competitive. That market is closing in on $500 billion in sales […] Continue reading Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco→

Published Exploits for Accessing SAP Systems Put Security Teams on Alert

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Researchers published two pieces of exploit code that can allow anyone to interact with an organization’s SAP enterprise resource planning platform and perform unauthorized transactions.

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50,000 companies running SAP installations open to attack via publicly released exploits

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Two exploits publicly released in late April at the OPCDE security conference in Dubai could be leveraged to compromise a great number of SAP implementations, Onapsis has warned. A successful attack would allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to: Per… Continue reading 50,000 companies running SAP installations open to attack via publicly released exploits→

Cloud Foundry ❤ Kubernetes

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Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service project that more than half of the Fortune 500 companies use to help them build, test and deploy their applications, launched well before Kubernetes existed. Because of this, the team ended up building Diego, its own container management service. Unsurprisingly, given the popularity of Kubernetes, which has become somewhat […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry ❤ Kubernetes→

Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups

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Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves against intellectual property lawsuits. What’s maybe most interesting here, though, […] Continue reading Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups→

Microsoft, Adobe and SAP prepare to expand their Open Data Initiative

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At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Initiative. The idea behind this effort was to make it easier for their customers to move data between each others’ services by standardizing on a common data format and helping them […] Continue reading Microsoft, Adobe and SAP prepare to expand their Open Data Initiative→

SAP job cuts prove harsh realities of enterprise transformation

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As traditional enterprise companies like IBM, Oracle and SAP try to transform into more modern cloud companies, they are finding that making that transition, while absolutely necessary, could require difficult adjustments along the way. Just this morning, SAP announced that it was restructuring in order to save between $750 million and 800 million euro (between […] Continue reading SAP job cuts prove harsh realities of enterprise transformation→

Analysts weighing in on $8B SAP-Qualtrics deal don’t see a game changer

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SAP CEO Bill McDermott was jacked up today about his company’s $8 billion  Qualtrics acquisition over the weekend. You would expect no less for such a big deal. McDermott believes that the data that Qualtrics provides could bridge the gap between his company’s operational data and customer data wherever that resides. The idea behind Qualtrics […] Continue reading Analysts weighing in on $8B SAP-Qualtrics deal don’t see a game changer→

‘All the Queen’s Horses’: A Real-World Use Case for Managing Insider Threats

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On Sept. 6, director Kelly Richmond Pope will discuss a case in which a small town official stole $53 million in public funds over two decades to illustrate the importance of managing insider threats.

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Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure

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Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be split over three years and are meant to cover the […] Continue reading Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure→