In normal times, asking the chief executive officer of a major technology company what keeps him or her up at night would generally elicit responses ranging from profitability and customer growth to innovation and the pursuit of digital transformation. But these are not normal times. “What keeps me up at night now and how I ...

With a majority of schools and institutions of higher learning around the world currently operating in virtual space, there may be no better opportunity for programs geared from the start for online education. And one of those programs is the Minerva Project. Started in 2012, Minerva was created with the goal of reinventing higher education ...

As a key video collaboration tool, Webex was never set up to connect the entire world all at once. Yet, along with other video communications platforms, Cisco Systems Inc. is dealing with unprecedented usage volume for its collaboration solution as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The service racked up 5.5 billion meeting minutes during ...

Before most of the world was forced to move online and work from home, there were glimpses into what doing business remotely could look like. An example can be found in the experience of a university professor who was conducting an interview with the BBC from his South Korea home in 2017. When his two ...

With ransomware threats on the rise and greater risk for a large user community now transacting business from home, World Backup Day on March 31 was a timely reminder that it’s better to be safe than sorry. HYCU Inc., the multicloud provider of backup and disaster recovery services, announced on March 31 that it would make ...

For the chief executive officer of HackerOne Inc., running a company from home without a central office is nothing new. He has been doing it since his first day at the helm of MySQL AB in 2001. One day, Marten Mickos (pictured), suggested to one of MySQL’s co-founders that the company should at least open ...

She stole a CNN reporter’s hotel points while live on the air. She has hacked into the security system of a large financial services company through a simple phone call while sitting onstage at a hackers’ convention thousands of miles away. But if anyone happens to meet Rachel Tobac (pictured), don’t run. She has some ...

As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, certain segments of the tech world have suddenly become hot properties. One of these is the video conferencing space where usage of online collaboration platforms, such as Zoom Inc., Skype Inc. and Google Hangouts, are zooming. Zoom recently reported that the number of daily active users for ...

VMware Inc.’s major announcement in March that it would become an enabler of cloud migration and multicloud management is actually a story about Goldilocks and the three bears. The lead analogy in this saga was provided by Craig McLuckie, co-founder of Kubernetes and vice president of research and development for VMware, when he declared last ...

One of the byproducts of the coronavirus pandemic is that a number of important events, understandably, get overlooked. The release in mid-March of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission report on making sweeping changes to guide U.S. cybersecurity policy is one of those events. The congressionally authorized commission was chartered to make recommendations for how the federal ...