Monthly Archives: July 2018
Why Flash Storage Will Remain Dominant for Several Years
Despite the continued emergence of new types of storage media, flash memory will remain a dominant solid-state memory for at least the next several...
Google Turns to AI, Machine Learning to Improve Cloud Security
Today’s topics include Google improving its cloud platform security and introducing new IoT options, and Apple issuing a software update to fix a throttling...
App Store at Age 10: How Mobile Development has Progressed Since 2008
July 10, 2018 marked an IT milestone: the 10th anniversary of the launch of the App Store, which made its debut with 10 million...
IBM Brings AI Chatbot to MaaS360 Unified Endpoint Management Security
IBM announced on July 30 that it is adding new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot capabilities to its MaaS360 Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) security platform.The new...
Cofense Advances Email Security With Updated Tools
Cofense announced the launch of its new Vision email security product, alongside updated capabilities for its Triage platform, on July 30.Cofense is positioning its combined email...
Looker Joins Google Cloud BigQuery for Self-Serve Analytics
The third annual staging of the Google Next conference this week at the rebuilding Moscone Center in San Francisco was an event loaded with...
How to Give Your Old Workstation a Brain Transplant
A few days ago, I laid out the considerations involving a processor swap on a professional workstation. The idea is that you can improve...
NetSpectre Attack Could Enable Remote CPU Exploitation
Researchers from Graz University in Austria released new research on July 26 detailing how the Spectre CPU speculative execution vulnerability could be used over...
Cloud Revenues Up 50 Percent over 2017; AWS Increases Its Lead
Some people could see back in 2008 that the cloud IT market was going to be a hit, but we seriously doubt any of...
Lessons Learned From the DNC Hack Can Protect Enterprises
On July 13, Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed an indictment explaining how a group of Russian operatives who are part of the Internet Research...