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Target names new CISO to replace Brad Maiorino
Rich Agostino, who helped shore up the retail giant’s cybersecurity defense following a significant data breach, takes over chief information security officer duties as Brad Maiorino departs for Booz Allen.
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Google gobbles up more big-name cloud customers
Google, saying the enterprise cloud is a natural extension of its mission, announced new customers and tools for the enterprise at its largest business conference to date.
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FBI chief calls for private sector to help battle cybercrime
As the FBI has been expanding and retooling its approach to cyber investigations, Director James Comey stresses need for CISOs to engage with the bureau.News
Teradata releases data lake platform to open source
The Kylo data lake management software platform, available via the Apache 2.0 license, aims to help organizations address common challenges in data lake implementation.
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Tesla hires new CIO
Gary Clark is joining the electric car company from Juniper Networks, where oversaw a broad migration to cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services and several SaaS vendors.News Analysis
MongoDB adds free tier and migration utility to cloud service
Seeking to reduce barriers to entry, NoSQL database specialist MongoDB has added a free tier to its MongoDB Atlas database-as-a-service (DaaS) offering. The company has also announced a new utility to make it easier to migrate data from existing deployments into the service.News Analysis
Microsoft supports creative work with tech-enabled spaces
Microsoft has partnered with commercial architecture and design specialist Steelcase to help organizations better integrate technology and workspaces to transform company culture and better support creative work.
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Is Google pushing Apple out of U.S. classrooms?
Chromebooks are quickly becoming the standard device in U.S. schools while Apple’s market share continues to slide.News
MapR and Outscale partner on big data PaaS
The cloud provider unveils a big data platform as a service (PaaS) offering built on the MapR Converged Data Platform.It’s Open
Docker draws distinctions between enterprise and community editions
The company that popularized container technology has fine tuned its marketing strategy, creating enterprise and community editions of Docker.rn
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Walgreens names new CIO
Steve Turner's position as a Walgreens veteran focused on data analytics could advance the pharmacy retailer's digital transformation.
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Snap soars on IPO, now what?
Snap began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today and shares soared. The company — now valued at $28.33 billion — has no profits to speak of, so where does it go from here?
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Facebook criticizes ad industry’s reliance on ‘proxy metrics’
Facebook’s operations and finance chiefs praised third-party measurement tools at a Morgan Stanley conference while criticizing the ad industry’s myopic view of what should be measured.
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Cisco completes live trials of Narrow Band IoT
The Cisco Jasper IoT connectivity platform now supports a standard for Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) designed to help mobile carriers pave the way for an explosion in internet of things devices in areas like smart meters, smart cities, smart parking, building automation, asset tracking and remote agriculture.News
Apple and SAP to release ‘developer-centric’ tools for iOS
As the fruits of a relationship forged last May, Apple and SAP will offer developer tools and training to build iOS apps for the enterprise.
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15 unfilled tech jobs that cost the U.S. billions
What's the overall cost of unfilled technology jobs? New research from Glassdoor shows it's in the billions. rn
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Google Cloud leader lays out ambitious plans for the enterprise
The head of Google’s enterprise business says the consumer giant has unique attributes in data management, analytics and machine learning that differentiate its cloud offerings.News
IBM delivers machine learning on the private cloud
IBM has unveiled IBM Machine Learning, a new cognitive platform that brings the power of machine learning to z System mainframes and eventually IBM POWER System.News Analysis
Top 10 U.S. cities for employee happiness
New data from employer review site Kununu reveals where you work geographically can have a huge impact on your career happiness.rnNews Analysis
Papa John's hires Panera IT leader as CIO, CDO
After a legal battle with Panera, the pizza chain hires Mike Nettles to lead its IT and digital efforts, which include online and mobile ordering from computers, smartphones and Apple TV.
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Splice Machine seeks to deliver hybrid RDBMS as a service
Splice Machine, which specializes in open source SQL RDBMS for mixed operational and analytical workloads, is aiming to offer that capability as a database-as-a-service on AWS.
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Attorneys predict a demanding year for IT outsourcing customers
Global politics, data demands and rapidly advancing technology needs will make 2017 a time of critical decision-making for IT leaders.
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MapR delivers persistent storage for containers
With its Converged Data Platform for Docker, MapR Technologies has unlocked persistent storage for containers, offering state access to files, database tables and message streams from any location.
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LinkedIn looks to add Premium value
LinkedIn says Premium subscribers will gain access to new features that will provide a better return for their monthly fees.News Analysis
Samsung Galaxy S8: What we know so far
The Galaxy S8 is expected to be released this spring, but leaked information suggests we will see an new design from Samsung.rn
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5 things you need to know about Snap’s IPO
Snap is preparing for one of the most anticipated IPOs in years. The company revealed some surprises and important details about its business in a new filing.
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Walgreens CIO leaving to launch retail marketing startup
Abhi Dhar, who helped lead several mobile and other digital initiatives at the pharmacy retailer, is stepping down next month to step up to a CEO role.
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How consumerization convinced a media giant to choose Dropbox
Once simply a box to tick off for CIOs evaluating collaboration solutions, Dropbox has become a serious competitor to Box, Microsoft, Facebook and Slack. News Corp. CIO Dominic Shine explains why.
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How IBM plans to expand MobileFirst for iOS program
IBM's MobileFirst for iOS initiative is now well into its third year. The head of the program and two of its customers talk to CIO.com about progress, challenges and plans for 2017.
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In major AI win, Libratus beats four top poker pros
Libratus, artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, has beaten four of the best heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em poker players in the world in a 20-day competition. Its mastery of imperfect information suggests a multitude of real-world applications.News
Google upgrades G Suite with tools for IT pros
Google continues to strengthen G Suite with the addition of enterprise-specific tools designed to offer data loss prevention, business insights and better security key controls.News
SAP adds new enterprise information management
Aiming to help organizations better manage, govern and strategically use and control their data assets, SAP has updated its EIM portfolio.
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Broadband, encryption and privacy top State of the Net agenda
In a chaotic time on Capitol Hill, lawmakers from both parties see room for bipartisan work to advance broadband infrastructure, strike a balance in the encryption debate and update old privacy laws.
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F5 Networks unveils new application security services
With organizations increasingly looking to application services to secure their applications and data, F5 Networks introduces a series of new solutions to help provide visibility, context and control.
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Why Google finally stopped ignoring Google Voice
Google’s voice and text communications app is finally getting the features that could make it a fit for the enterprise.
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Trump’s trade TPP move a setback for cloud computing
With President Trump's move to walk away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, administration is 'starting from zero' on digital trade policy.News Analysis
Why Google still isn't giving up on Google+
Google+ may be on the decline, but Google isn’t ready to call it quits on the social network just yet.News Analysis
LinkedIn releases major website redesign
LinkedIn is pushing what it calls its most important desktop redesign in 15 years to more than 467 million users during the coming weeks. You can now expect a mobile-like experience at the social network.News
Trump administration threatens net neutrality, cloud and IoT
Outgoing FCC chairman Tom Wheeler urges his successors not to undo controversial open internet order, which he says is key to a vibrant cloud computing marketplace.It’s Open
Mirantis to offer commercial support for OpenContrail SDN platform
The company will deploy TCP cloud technology that it acquired to offer OpenContrail support.
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Why Facebook is key to Sony's movie marketing
At CES 2017, Sony Pictures, the studio behind the recent hit films 'Passengers,' 'Sausage Party' and 'Ghostbusters,' shared some of the reasons why more and more of its film-marketing budget goes to social networks such as Facebook.
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Google, AT&T and Universal discuss marketing's future
Technology, media and entertainment leaders this week at CES examined the veracity of digital marketing metrics, the impact of machine learning on marketing and why an experimental approach is crucial.
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IT service providers increase investment in onshore locations
A number of factors are driving leading global IT and business process outsourcing providers to open more onshore than offshore locations.
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Facebook and Google dominate list of most popular apps (again)
The eight most popular mobile apps in the United States are made by two tech giants. Facebook and Google dominated the app market in 2017 and continued a duopoly that's existed for years.
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Outsourcing trends to watch in 2017
Here are 10 predictions for the year ahead in IT outsourcing.
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Apple's App Transport Security extension should concern IT
Apple backtracked on its 'App Transport Security' mandate, which would require all iOS apps to use secure network connections by 2017. The decision could affect CIOs and mobile administrators.
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New accounting standards change the rules of IT leasing
New reporting rules could make IT equipment leasing less attractive, but lessors may be more amenable to meet client demands or offer new value-added services to win over customers.It’s Open
Dell EMC joins The Linux Foundation's OpenSDS Project
The company is also making its first code contribution to the project.rn
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Grading our 2016 IT outsourcing predictions
We predicted this was the year that security and integration challenges would become key considerations, companies would embrace robotic process automation and offshore captive models, and the IT outsourcing contracting process would become more agile and accommodating. Now it's time to revisit our predictions.
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Feds frustrated by constantly crashing apps
New report from Riverbed Technology identifies pervasive headaches stemming from unreliable applications in the federal government.
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