Credit to Author: Bob Violino| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 03:38:00 -0700
The IT vendor landscape is constantly in flux, with mergers, acquisitions, new technology developments and the growth of the cloud having a huge impact on which companies might be the most strategic partners for organizations looking to enhance their technology infrastructure.
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Credit to Author: Blair Hanley Frank| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:18:00 -0800
Okta has acquired Stormpath, a company that provides authentication services for developers. The deal should help the identity provider improve its developer-facing capabilities.
Stormpath offered developers a set of tools for managing user logins for their apps. Rather than building a login system from scratch, developers could call the Stormpath API and have the company take care of it for them. Frederic Kerrest, Okta’s co-founder and chief operating officer, said that the acquisition should help his company build self-service capabilities for developers.
While Okta is probably best known for its identity and access management products aimed at businesses’ internal use, the company also operates a developer platform aimed at helping app developers handle user identity. Kerrest said that the developer capabilities are a fast-growing part of Okta’s business, but that its functionality could use some help. That’s where this acquisition comes in.
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Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:00:44 +0000
Google’s Next 2017 conference kicks off today with a series of bootcamps. The regular program starts on Wednesday and runs through Friday, highlighting the latest offerings in the Google Cloud. This is the third iteration of the conference and as with the Google Cloud itself, the show is going to be bigger and better than…
Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 04:18:00 -0800
Microsoft has launched Project Sangam, a cloud service integrated with LinkedIn that will help train and generate employment for middle and low-skilled workers.
The professional network that was acquired by Microsoft in December has been generally associated with educated urban professionals, but the company is now planning to extend its reach to semi-skilled people in India.
Having connected white-collared professionals around the world with the right job opportunities and training through LinkedIn Learning, the platform is now developing a new set of products that extends this service to low- and semi-skilled workers, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at an event on digital transformation in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: Sharon Gaudin| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:17:00 -0800
IT managers are finding it difficult to keep their applications and data safe in the cloud, and many are slowing cloud adoption because of it.
That was one of the findings of an Intel cloud security report that surveyed 2,000 IT professionals in different countries and industries last fall.
The issue isn’t with the cloud itself, since trust outnumbers distrust for public clouds by more than two to one, according to Intel’s survey.
IT professionals told Intel that shadow IT and a shortage of cybersecurity skills are causing the most problems.
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Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:46:07 +0000
Our researchers produce a lot of really interesting material. This week, they published a paper called, “U.S. Cities Exposed In Shodan.” The research looks systems that are exposed online…exposure that systems owners aren’t always aware of. The most disturbed statistic in the research is a simple one: the fourth most exposed system is MySQL. I had…
Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:31:02 +0000
One of the key benefits of the cloud is focus. Spinning up a virtual server in the cloud lets you focus on the operations and security of the operating system, you applications, and your data. Similarly migrating to a SaaS productivity suite lets you focus on your data and getting work done. This is the…
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Monday the Email Privacy Act, which would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search email and other data stored with third parties for longer than six months.
The House approved the bill by voice vote, and it now goes the Senate for consideration.
The Email Privacy Act would update a 31-year-old law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Some privacy advocates and tech companies have pushed Congress to update ECPA since 2011. Lax protections for stored data raise doubts about U.S. cloud services among consumers and enterprises, supporters of the bill say.
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