The global pandemic has impacted the U.S. workforce in ways that could never have been imagined barely three months ago. It has also increased reliance on employment sites such as Jobcase Inc., a free open-access social media platform with over 100 million registered members. In April, Jobcase announced the launch of virtual hiring events where ...

While Stack Overflow helps developers and technologists transform business, the company has also reached a place where it must transform as well. As the largest online community for coders to learn and share knowledge, Stack Overflow has built an audience that today includes 50 million monthly unique visitors to its question-and-answer website and an additional 70 million ...

After taking over as chief executive officer of Google Cloud Platform near the end of 2018, Thomas Kurian has followed a game plan honed during his previous 22-year career at Oracle Corp. He has increased the sales team and acquired new companies, including analytics firm Looker Data Sciences Inc., data migration provider Alooma Inc. and mainframe ...

In the 1894 mystery “Adventure of the Crooked Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes analyzes a crime scene by explaining to his trusty sidekick: “You know my methods, Watson.” More than a century later, it appears that Watson has learned a whole lot more. This month’s first IBM Think event under the new leadership ...

Two years after a major data compliance law went into effect in Europe, companies are still struggling with meeting data requests in a timely manner. A recent global survey found that 58% of respondents could not meet data access and portability requests within a one-month time frame. This is in spite of data privacy regulations ...

In 2019, VMware Inc. used the acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. to address what its chief executive officer characterized as “broken” security. Today, VMware added a couple of new tools to the repair shop. The company announced that it would acquire Kubernetes security vendor Octarine Inc. in a move designed to provide customers with improved visibility ...

There are times in the technology world when a seemingly small, niche product will lead to bigger things. AppFlow, introduced last month by Amazon Web Services Inc., is one such example. In 2015, AWS launched a service called VPC Endpoint for S3 that helped customers on private clouds tap into database services without going through the ...

In the one minute of time it takes to read the opening of this story, there will be 3.5 billion Google searches, 38,000 status updates on Facebook, and over 300 hours of new videos uploaded to YouTube. And that’s just a small fraction of the data coursing through the digital world every minute of every ...

When Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg were struggling to find affordable learning resources for cloud application development, they created their first class in 2015. The brothers were hoping to attract a few paying customers to keep their fledgling idea afloat. Instead, when 8,000 customers signed up, A Cloud Guru was born. What began as a single cloud ...

Sometimes the answer to a heart-wrenching problem is just sitting there waiting for action. That’s the feeling that IBM Corp.’s head of California operations experienced when she happened to turn on her TV as the global pandemic began. “Almost a month ago when this all started, I sat there watching the news, watching people dying ...