Category: Tech
Sony hack may illustrate the downside of picking a fight with a skilled cyber adversary. The website Urban Dictionary defines the expression “don’t poke the bear” as follows: A phrase of warning used to prevent oneself or others from asking or doing something that might provoke a negative response from someone or something else. In […]
Some things IT professionals think are problems actually bring significant benefits that we should learn to appreciate. In the run up to the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s customary to identify some of the things for which we want to offer our gratitude. Typically, that means family, friends, good health, and the like. That’s always a good […]
iPhone 6, iPad Air, Samsung Galaxy gear and big cheap TVs among the hottest electronic deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2014. Black Friday is upon us Word is that more retailers will relent to public pressure – I mean do the right thing for their employees – and close on Thanksgiving Day […]
The launch of Apple Pay last month jump-started the mobile payments business, with several companies pushing hard to become your preferred payment method in stores. Even more competitors are on the horizon, promising to bring a lot more security and convenience compared to today’s plastic payment cards. The magnetic-stripe cards currently used in the U.S. […]
Andy Jassy touts larger customer cloud deployments at the AWS user conference The cloud is no longer relegated to handling ancillary jobs, but is quickly become the base for mission critical — or even all — enterprise IT operations, the head of Amazon Web Services said. “The cloud is the new normal,” said Andy Jassy, […]
In an effort to make to make Internet and mobile transactions more secure, American Express has launched a new service that aims to replace payment card numbers with unique tokens. Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it E-commerce sites and digital wallet applications that use the company’s new […]
In our interviews with CIOs at large enterprises, we found that adoption levels vary from simple experimentation to heavy use of cloud apps and infrastructure in public and private settings. Yet even among the most cloud-focused businesses, there are resources CIOs won’t consider migrating to the cloud – at least not yet. giants cloud primary […]
Cloud computing prompts IT organizations to rethink how they acquire talent and develop skills. As the clouds roll in, IT organizations are recasting their tech talent requirements. giants in the cloudmain “You don’t need people to build servers anymore. You need somebody good at managing another organization responsible for doing that. That’s a different skill,” […]
States’ efforts to improve cybersecurity are being hindered by lack of money and people. States don’t have enough funding to keep up with the increasing sophistication of the threats, and can’t match private sector salaries, says a new study. This just-released report by Deloitte and the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) about IT security […]
Seagate hard drives fail with more regularity than those from Western Digital or Hitachi, according to the latest results of an ongoing study by cloud service provider Backblaze. Backblaze released data from 38,000 drives that store more than 100 petabytes in its data center. The research continued to show consumer drives had the same or […]