CEO
The Big Interview: Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell
Dynatrace's quest for the Grail...
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Cash-rich IBM eyes federal business with its 7th deal of 2022
Acquisition is IBM's seventh this calendar year
Enterprise IT
Manchester United's CEO of Digital Products & Experiences, Phil Lynch, on fans, data, partners
Phil Lynch on using data to improve the fan experience, and working with DXC Technology
Cybersecurity
Rackspace confirms ransomware attack on $30m biz; 200k affected
Rackspace has confirmed that it was hit by ransomware. The incident on December 2 affected its hosted Microsoft Exchange offering, leaving hundreds of thousands of customer email inboxes inaccessible. The scale of the attack is significant. Rackspace said its Hosted Exchange business generates $30 million in annual revenue – but has
Enterprise IT
One single HMG department is running 600+ unsupported apps
Defra legacy IT issues mean department is running some 2,000 applications, 30% of them unsupported. The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is running 600+ applications that are end of life (EOL), or no longer supported with software updates by their suppliers; a severe potential
Cybersecurity
The slow demise of the VPN: 5 lessons from DoD's Zero Trust framework
From culture to SASE, DevSecOps to network segmentation
Enterprise IT
Salesforce loses 3 CEOs in a week: “Don’t think you’ll get out of this alive”
Three Salesforce CEOs have quit in a week. Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield has followed Tableau CEO Mark Nelson and Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor out of the door, as shares at the software firm slid. Salesforce announced the abrupt departure of co-CEO Bret Taylor on November 30. Tableau CEO
Enterprise IT
The Stack's Job of the Week: CIO, Colleague Experience, HSBC
HSBC is looking for a Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsible for improving the internal digital experience of the approximately 200,000 staff that use over 800 different “internally facing colleague systems”. The recruitment effort will be welcomed by the banking multinational’s staff who face a challenging and complex environment
Cybersecurity
Rackspace hacked: Hosted Exchange Servers down as it warns of “extended outage”
Here's a free migration to the cloud, nevermind your old emails...
Featured
AWS’s CEO missed an open goal on cost fears. It didn't go unnoticed
Adam Selipsky misses the chance for a Destiny's Child moment...
Featured
How Ukrainian, AWS officials scrambled to save government data
On the day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine – February 24 — AWS officials met with representatives of Ukraine’s government in their London embassy to discuss how they could help save the government’s data. As AWS’s Liam Maxwell, Director of Government Transformation put it on November 30: “We sketched
Cloud
AWS’s re:Invent is back with a bang in Vegas and all about the “p” word
Neither profit, nor the other p-word; read on...