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As earnings season kicks off, can big tech keep the good times rolling?
The first round of earnings reports by major technology providers in 2018 kicks off Thursday, with IBM Corp. expected to set the stage for what optimists hope will be another season of good tidings. There’s reason to believe they’ll be rewarded. Gartner Inc.’s just-released annual spending forecast projects that worldwide information technology investments will total $3.7 trillion ...
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There’s a much bigger issue for tech firms than Trump’s rollback of H-1B visas
The tech executives who have been decrying the Trump administration’s slowing of foreign worker visas are missing the real point: They need to rethink their entire approach to hiring and training before they worry about H-1B visa program. That’s according to one information technology staffing expert who thinks the furor masks much bigger issues than ...
This company has saved insurers millions with its IoT weather analytics network
In many parts of the U.S., hailstorms are a constant threat. Hailstones can damage roofs and siding of afflicted buildings beyond repair in just a few minutes, requiring insurance companies to pay large claims. But sometimes hailstones aren’t the culprit. In Dallas recently, one policyholder with coverage on several rental properties submitted two claims for roof damage ...
MapR CEO resigns abruptly, replaced by big-data company’s founder
MapR Technologies Inc. has removed Chief Executive Matt Mills (pictured, right) and replaced him with founder and Executive Chairman John Schroeder (left). The move comes less than two years after Mills, a veteran of Oracle Corp. was appointed CEO with considerable fanfare in what the big-data management firm called an evolutionary move to help the ...
Survey finds IT disaster recovery practices still rely on old technologies
Digital transformation is high on the agenda for many organizations today, but it turns out a lot of them are doing things the same old way when it comes to keeping the lights on and the engines running. A joint survey of more than 5,600 information technology professionals across the globe by software vendors Syncsort ...
‘Digital workplace’ firm Igloo Software beats winter’s chill with $47M infusion
The average temperature was 9 degrees last week in Kitchener, Ontario, but the offices of Igloo Inc. were warmed by a infusion of $47 million in new funding, the closing of which was announced today. The funding was led by Frontier Capital, a Charlotte, N.C.-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business ...
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. ...