DHS wants to stop the rise of large-scale DDoS attacks
Dive Brief: The Department of Homeland Security is funding new research to stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according…
Who’s In Charge of Digital Transformation? You Are!
I’m an innovation evangelist with SAP. Each year, I present at about 50 conferences around the world, talking to business and…
A Sweeter Spot for the CDO?
I recently commented on an article by Bruno Aziza (@brunoaziza) from AtScale . As mentioned in this earlier piece, Bruno…
Microsoft’s future is in the cloud
Two longstanding giants of tech, Apple and Microsoft, are both on Fast Company’s list of 2017’s most innovative companies--but other…
Google offers businesses fast access to multiple cloud databases
Dive Brief: Google launched Cloud Spanner, a fully managed database that the company says "combines the transactional consistency of a…
DevOps First
It has been nearly six years since then-U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra issued his Federal Cloud Computing Strategy. Typically referred to…
IT Is Not Analytics. Here’s Why.
A CEO that I worked for once gave me the following feedback when I proudly sent him an Excel file…
AWS CEO predicts several winners will emerge from the cloud wars
Dive Brief:Demand for cloud services is so large that there will be "multiple successful players," though it's not clear yet…
Practical Ways to Protect Customer Information
We’re at an interesting point in history. The global cyber security market is expected to be worth as much as…
Report: Business IoT adoption to triple by 2020
Dive Brief:Gartner predicts that roughly 8 billion sensor-connected items will appear globally throughout 2017, a 31% increase from 2016. By 2020, those…
