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Veritas taps new CEO, saying two-year turnaround is complete
Veritas Technologies LLC, which has gone through a 12-year roller coaster ride as a public company, subsidiary of Symantec Corp., a spinoff and now a private company again, is changing its top leadership. The company today said Greg Hughes (pictured) will become chief executive, replacing Bill Coleman, who will remain on the company’s board and ...
How those chip flaws could accelerate the shift to cloud computing
The nearly ubiquitous “Meltdown” and “Spectre” security vulnerabilities that have dominated tech news headlines this week could be a ray of sunshine to one group of vendors: cloud computing providers. Many information technology organizations are in chaos right now trying to determine the existence and impact of the hardware flaws on their own infrastructure, said ...
That convenient browser autofill feature could be stealing your personal information
The autofill feature that comes with your browser could be compromising your security and opening the door to identity theft, according to researchers at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. The culprit is what researchers Gunes Acar, Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan wrote on Dec. 27 is a “long-known vulnerability” in the built-in password ...
Survey: Fear of disruption drives executives’ embrace of big-data projects
Top executives are doing more than just paying lip service to the idea that data is a strategic asset, but whether they’re doing so out of ambition or fear is an open question. That’s according to the sixth annual study of 60 senior executives at primarily U.S. financial services firms released today by NewVantage Partners LLC. ...
PREDICTIONS 2018
Security forecast: hot, with a possibility of severe storms
It was another year of frustration for enterprise security organizations as attackers continued to penetrate high-profile organizations and steal massive amounts of personal information, headlined by the 143 million records pilfered in the Equifax Inc. breach. Big data analytics and machine learning presented some intriguing possibilities to change the defense posture from prevention to detection, ...
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Wait for it: the most overhyped technologies of 2017
As we waited to hop into our self-driving car where we could lean back, put on a headset and enjoy some virtual reality entertainment, it occurred to us that there might be some flaws in the blockchain-based service we’d used to order up and pay for our ride. Could it be that the artificial intelligence ...
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Big winners of 2017: The tech gets smarter and the rich get richer
In a year in which the Nasdaq hit an all-time high, venture capital dollars flowed like cheap champagne and the majority of earnings surprises were on the upside, there were plenty of winners. These companies and technologies stood out for the scope of their accomplishment or speed of acceptance: Amazon Web Services Holding onto a 40 percent-plus ...
Red Hat’s strong results fail to impress Scrooge-ish investors
Red Hat Inc. perhaps thought it was playing Santa Claus this afternoon with fiscal third-quarter profit and revenue that eclipsed Wall Street expectations. But investors were apparently in a Scrooge-like mood, bidding the open-source software company’s shares down nearly 4 percent in after-hours trading. It wasn’t clear why they weren’t satisfied, but many investors have ...
PREDICTIONS 2018
Forecast for infrastructure as a service: cloudy and unsettled
Could anyone have predicted Uber would lose its founding CEO or the price of bitcoin would jump 20fold over the course of 2017? No doubt 2018 will be just as unpredictable, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and blockchain to machine learning and virtual reality combine and collide. This is the ...
Adobe’s strong quarter underlines stability of its cloud-first model
Six years after shaking up the software world by announcing that it would abandon shrink-wrapped box sales in favor of cloud subscriptions, Adobe Systems Inc. continues to provide evidence of the wisdom of that strategy. The maker of such design-world mainstays as Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat handily beat Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter. ...
