Slack won the first Group Messaging war
With the Slack-Atlassian partnership, round one is won and done. To the victor went the spoils. Now on to the next front, with Microsoft and others to contend with. Slack surpassed HipChat in users in late 2014 and has outpaced HipChat ever since, according to Zapier, which offers tools that enable users to connect cloud-hosted […]
Zero Trust Security Is The Growth Catalyst IoT Needs
McKinsey predicts the Internet of Things (IoT) market will be worth $581B for ICT-based spend alone, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 7 and 15% according to their study Internet of Things The IoT opportunity – Are you ready to capture a once-in-a-lifetime value pool? By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics […]
Lenovo CIO’s big question: Did we move the needle?
Lenovo’s global chief information officer shares his secrets for using IT to drive innovation across one of the largest companies in the world. Watch the entire video to learn how to become a digital CIO and change your organization.
Some thoughts on Docker post DockerCon 2018
Some impressions from DockerCon. It’s been a month or so since the event, but I didn’t need to be first with coverage. Docker is increasingly a context for business to get done. It struck me for example was how busy the exhibition hall was. Vendors I spoke to with booths were very happy with the […]
Twitter’s Nuclear Option
If Twitter’s countermeasures fail in the run up to the mid-term election, they should prepare a nuclear option. Russian intelligence distorted the democratic process of the 2016 Presidential Election by manipulating social media, and perhaps more. A tech backlash is in full swing, where the power of unintended and intended (ads) consequences wielded by […]
Before Regulating Next-Generation Mobility Data, We Must Understand That Data
The congressional and European Parliament testimonies of Facebook’s CEO focused attention on Internet and ecommerce corporations whose business models rely on the collection and exploitation of big data, with personal data being a major component. Legislators and the public at large came to realize a) the leverage such companies now possess through the dominant positions […]
Atomist–making software development observable, programmable
I recently sat down with the cofounders of Atomist Rod Johnson and Ryan Day to discuss the state of software development today and how their platform meets the needs of companies undertaking digital transformation and replatforming projects. Organisations are being told to break down monoliths into hundreds, if not thousands, of services but […]
How Many Leads Are You Losing Due to Ad Blockers?
What percentage of your audience use ad blockers? I never thought much about this until I started running an ad blocker to see what my visitors experience on my web site. I was shocked to see things like my Social Signup buttons (Sumo!) disappeared. But I was also worried. I used Sumo click buttons to […]
Zero Trust Security Update From The SecurIT Zero Trust Summit
Identities, not systems, are the new security perimeter for any digital business, with 81% of breaches involving weak, default or stolen passwords. 53% of enterprises feel they are more susceptible to threats since 2015. 51% of enterprises suffered at least one breach in the past 12 months and malicious insider incidents increased 11% year-over-year. These […]
The end of Cloud history?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 17, 2018
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then deputy director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff (he has since taught at Johns Hopkins and Stanford among other institutions) predicted the fall of Communism and the world beyond in an article titled “The end of history”. In 1992 he elaborated his thoughts in a book. His view was optimistic – […]
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