Over the past 20 years, cybersecurity has persistently played an unwinnable game. In this game, the attacker makes all the rules, sets all the timers, records all the scores, and can walk away from the game anytime without losing anything. Meanwhile, the defenders are encumbered with a cavalcade of rules, tools, and fools: insidious compliance…
It’s in the news all the time – regulators are looking at big tech. The European Commission threatens big tech with violations of competition law. In the US, the FTC and DoJ are conducting anti-trust investigations. It’s time to break up big tech, right? Wrong – it ain’t gonna happen. Now why is that…
IBM’s CEO Rometty acquired Red Hat Inc for $34 billion to turn around cloud computing services. This is IBM’s largest acquisition in over 100 years, according to Reuters. IBM big bet is to turn around its higher profit margin in cloud and software services. IBM’s revenue and profits have been declined over the last five…
The Department of Defense (DOD) awarded underdog Microsoft a massive cloud computing contract on October 25, 2019. This announcement was an enormous surprise to IT analysts and the cloud industry. This award was stripped down from the original Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) $10B cloud plan to a $1million guarantee for Microsoft work. It leaves…
Key takeaway – The Red Hat acquisition can be a win-win for IBM and CIOs’ multicloud strategies, so long as IBM resists the temptation to overload Red Hat solutions with IBM services. IBM’s CEO Rometty acquired Red Hat Inc for $34 billion to turn around cloud computing services. This is IBM’s largest acquisition in over…
