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 ...

In August 2021, the tech industry will mark the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM PC. It contained an Intel 8088 microprocessor and cost well over $5,000 in today’s dollars. After many decades, IBM and Intel are continuing to partner up. Only this time, instead of joint work on an early personal computer, ...

For Banco Bradesco, one of the largest banking and financial services companies in Brazil, resilience matters. With 1.5 billion monthly transactions for 72 million customers, Bradesco depends on availability for its services. And IBM’s z15 enterprise platform helps make it happen. “We can design solutions for seven nines of availability, and that’s the reason why clients ...

One problem confronting the enterprise world today is that when data is stored in multiple platforms, it also takes multiple security tools to keep that information safe. A SANS Institute survey found that nearly half of respondents lacked visibility into data processed within their own organizations and 55% struggled with the lack of integration between ...

Most successful tech entrepreneurs build companies and careers on their brainpower. But the founder and chief executive officer of Pegasystems Inc. built his company into a billion-dollar success by also using his hands. Alan Trefler (pictured) moved pieces around a chess board and won the World Open Chess Championship in 1975 at the age of ...