It would be a mistake to simply characterize LinkedIn Corp. as merely a job or networking website. With 660 million users, LinkedIn has the ability to leverage a tremendous amount of data in ways that go far beyond the latest job switch or promotion. The field of data science is helping it transform economic structures ...

Diversity applies to more than just the makeup of any given workforce. It’s become especially important in understanding how products will be received by customers. Intuit Inc. develops and sells accounting and tax preparation software, and its QuickBooks product serves more than 2.5 million users worldwide. With a customer base that large, being attuned to ...

It’s no secret that the representation of women in the technology workforce is lower than it should be. For predictive analytics professionals, a Burch Works study showed that women comprised 26% of the workforce in 2019, an increase over the previous year of only 2%. Microsoft Corp. is taking its own steps to change that. ...

Over his years in the tech industry, Joseph D’Angelo (pictured) thought he had seen it all. The chief architect of cloud resiliency solutions at Veritas Technologies LLC had just completed a large application migration and deployment project for a major state agency on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday morning, his phone was ringing off the ...

Updated: This article was updated to reflect current news about KubeCon Europe. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has two messages for the enterprise tech community: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, set to be held in in Amsterdam, will be postponed until summer, and attendees should be prepared for a few changes in the program tracks. “The ...

When it chose “Human Element” as the central theme of its annual U.S. conference, RSA Security LLC must have gazed deep into a crystal ball and foreseen the near-term future. RSA’s annual U.S. conference, held last week in San Francisco, opened with the deadly coronavirus spreading rapidly and affecting thousands of people around the globe. It ...

Highly organized disinformation campaigns and a vulnerable voting infrastructure are propelling the United States toward what may be the most problem-plagued election cycle in the nation’s history. That’s the inescapable conclusion based on views from a number of security experts and industry leaders who appeared at the RSA Conference on cybersecurity in San Francisco this past ...

It’s one thing to guard against a cyber break-in once a week or perhaps a few times a month. But what if there were millions of such attacks every minute of the day? This is the scale at which organizations such as FortiGuard Labs must operate, using technology and tools against some of the most ...

Capgemini Services SAS is helping its clients navigate waves of change in the cybersecurity industry. Whether it’s finding enough skilled people to hire for critical positions, dealing with the latest threat information, or weighing the use of artificial intelligence to protect systems, the firm’s global customer base has an ever-shifting number of factors to consider. ...

Even though the technology world has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade, it can at times be a surprisingly small community of people. This is why a top executive at VMware Inc. and the chairman of Microsoft Corp. have much in common as both grapple with the issues surrounding tech security. Before ...