Great-West Lifeco Inc., one of the largest and oldest financial services holding companies in Canada, is the target of hundreds of thousands of malware attacks every day, according to its global chief information officer. Yet, that’s not what worries CIO Phil Armstrong (pictured). It’s the fact that the malware itself is actually getting smarter. “The bad ...

Among the deluge of announcements this week from VMware Inc. has been the expansion of its telecommunications and edge cloud portfolio to enable the deployment of edge-based cloud networks, where end devices such as laptops, smartphones and connected sensors live. Executives at VMware clearly believe that demand for edge computing tools will only grow, a ...

On Monday, VMware Inc. and Druva Inc. jointly announced that Druva’s data protection platform would become available on VMware Cloud Marketplace and certified for VMware Cloud on AWS. The announcement indicated that it was the first time that a data protection and software as a service solution had been certified for both. “If you are ...

In his keynote remarks to open VMworld 2019 in San Francisco on Monday, Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s chief executive officer, made clear his company would be a significant multicloud player. The problem for Gelsinger (pictured0 and VMware is that technology spending data shows customers may be doubling down on public cloud commitments at the expense of ...

When he was head coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots in the 1990s, Bill Parcells was once asked if he thought he should be involved in acquiring players for his team. “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries,” Parcells said. ...

Mark Phillip has always been a fan, but when he maxed out his credit cards to bootstrap his fledgling sports viewing digital business, his zeal suddenly became more than just a game. The Brooklyn-born, Austin-based, MIT dropout (pictured) had an idea in 2006 that there could be a market for sports fans who didn’t have the time to ...

Work continues long after the workday is done, the pressure is intense, management is in chaos, and vacation is only a dream. Welcome to the glamorous life of an information-technology professional. It may not come as a surprise to those who work in IT, but a recent survey conducted by Cohesity Inc. has found that ...

At the current rate that VMware Inc. is buying companies, the 21-year-old virtualization and cloud computing software provider might need to add another hall for its upcoming VMworld gathering in San Francisco, set to begin on Monday, Aug. 26, just to accommodate the increased headcount. On Wednesday, VMware announced that it would acquire Intrinsic, a ...

A little over six years ago, top executives from VMware Inc. stood on a Las Vegas stage and, in front of hundreds of partners, expressed incredulity that the company could be outsold by a bookseller. “I look at VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it really hard to ...

The stage is set for the world to find out what might happen if petrochemical, gas and power plant safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic accidents are disabled by malicious hackers. In summer 2017, a security consultant discovered malware that was set to deliberately override safety systems in a Saudi Arabia chemical facility. The malware, ...