IDG Contributor Network: Amazon Web Services scores a Gartner clean sweep
Gartner is well respected in the industry by most. Even people who dismiss traditional analyst firms concede (however grudgingly) that…
Review: Stop insider attacks with these 6 powerful tools
Privileged Identity Management is based on the idea that a common element of most advanced threats involves obtaining the credentials…
IDG Contributor Network: Why I’ll never visit the gym without a data scientist
A favorite New Yorker cartoon of mine shows a man sitting at his breakfast table while a toaster tells him:…
Price and features: The latest Android smartphones compared
There’s never been a better time to buy an Android phone. Sure, I’ve said that before — but you know…
Why email is a better virtual assistant
Now that virtual assistants are here, we need to decide where they live. Here’s an idea: How about inside email?…
Dangerous bugs leave open doors to SAP HANA systems
Serious software flaws have recently been reported for SAP’s HANA, the in-memory database platform that underpins many of the German…
Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India
The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company’s Mason, Ohio offices learned of their fates game-show style. First, they…
We have trouble remembering it's a new month too
It’s February 1978, and this company has just installed a refrigerator-sized minicomputer, according to a pilot fish on the scene.…
IDG Contributor Network: Amazon's Machiavellian same-day delivery trial
When Amazon UK on Thursday (Nov. 5) rolled out a free same-day delivery trial in parts of the U.K., it…
EMC, hospital to pay $90,000 over stolen laptop with medical data
EMC and Hartford Hospital have agreed to pay $90,000 to Connecticut for the loss in 2012 of an unencrypted laptop…