It’s easy to imagine where we would be without women in technology. We’d be poorer for it. With Mother’s Day upon us, I couldn’t help but think once more about the stark employment figures I shared in my International Women’s Day blog just a few weeks ago. Millions of women have involuntarily left the workforce at a much higher rate than men during the pandemic—with roughly one third of women in the U.S. aged 25-44 citing…

In a recent post I talked about the exciting new topics that came up at the recent NVIDIA GTC. I talked about NVIDIA and VMware’s partnership, and specifically some bits about the AI Ready Enterprise platform. The partnership has grown rapidly and it’s a great reflection on how quickly machine learning is becoming not just mainstream, but mainstream for Enterprise. Digital companies like Amazon, Facebook, Netflix etc. have been using Machine Learning for a long…

In the previous post we looked at what a cloud operating model is and what the typically journey is for enterprises today. It showed that I&O organizations today need to transform their existing infrastructure to become a private cloud and that over time there also would be a need to evolve for the management of multiple clouds. That of course has an impact on the operational model: transitioning from private cloud to multi-cloud. This means…

A personal cell phone number belonging to the UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has reportedly been publicly accessible online for fifteen years.  Johnson’s number was listed on a think tank press release published on the internet back in 2006 when he was the Member of Parliament for the riverside town of Henley in Buckinghamshire.  The security breach was first reported by the website Popbitch in a piece headlined ‘Hoping not to butt-dial Boris’. “It’s not as though…

DockerCon Live 2021 is almost here and it’s going to be one to remember. Our one-day, all-digital event on May 27 will be jam-packed with the application development technology, skills, tools and people you need to help solve the problems you face day to day — all for free. Designed for developers by developers, this year’s event is all about modern application delivery in a cloud-native world. At DockerCon, you’ll learn how Docker helps you…

Since ransomware’s introduction in 1989 in the form of the AIDS Trojan, also known as PS Cyborg, distributed on diskettes, ransomware has continually increased and evolved into a heinous threat to our national security, public safety, and to our economic and public health. With ransoms paid in 2020 reaching more than $300+ million, it has become a disruptive economic leach on the resources of its victims. Local governments, educational organizations, hospitals, critical infrastructure services, businesses…

A software company based in Germany has self-disclosed violating United States sanction laws by exporting American products and services to Iran. SAP SE, which is headquartered in Walldorf, admitted to carrying out thousands of export violations over a seven-year period.  After self-reporting its transgressions, the company agreed to pay combined penalties of more than $8m as part of a global resolution reached with the United States Departments of Justice (DOJ), Commerce, and Treasury.  SAP entered into…