Google Hit With GDPR Fine
Google got whacked again this week by European regulators for failing to comply with provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation covering data collection used for targeted ...Full Article
Google Remains Top Open-Source Contributor
Open-source software is akin to baseball and apple pie: Everyone approves, but few actually back up their commitment with code commits to the open-source community with few or no ...Full Article
IBM Unveils Hybrid Cloud Deals, Red Hat OKs Acquisition
Red Hat shareholders approved the open-source leader’s acquisition by IBM this week, likely clearing the way for the mega-deal to close by the end of this year. IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...Full Article
Digital Investments Seen Climbing in 2019
Despite growing economic uncertainties, growth in investments and adoption of digital technologies such as AI, machine learning and cloid computing are expected to reach double digits in the coming ...Full Article
Investors Continue to Bank on Cloud Manager Rubrik
Tech company valuations and private equity funding rounds continue to soar as data become the keys to the realm and greater volumes are managed in the cloud. The latest ...Full Article
Cloud Transition Begets Cloud Waste
The more companies spend on cloud resources, the greater the likelihood those investments will be wasted on excess and therefore idle capacity along with the overprovisioning of infrastructure services, ...Full Article
Patent Awards Slow, But Applications Rise
The broad category of data processing continued to generate the lion’s share of intellectual property claims in 2018, despite and overall decline in the number of U.S. patents last ...Full Article
Struggling IBM Uses CES to Reinvent Itself
Among the featured speakers at the largest consumer electronics show next week in Las Vegas is the CEO of a a major enterprise IT vendor not generally associated with ...Full Article
Oracle Lawsuit Clouds DoD’s IT Strategy
Just in time for the holidays, cloud rivals are fighting like cats and dogs over one of the biggest ever federal IT contracts. The battle lines for the Joint ...Full Article
Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
The majority of enterprise applications are developed and deployed in the cloud, concludes a semi-annual survey on cloud adoption. Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of ...Full Article