Companies should encourage its developers to spend part of the workday contributing to open source whether or not a project is managed internally by the company itself.
Nation-state sponsored cyberattacks are far more common than most people think, according to a recently-released report commissioned by CrowdStrike. The stats are attention-grabbing and so is the study’s sponsor. Overall, nation-states are threats, but CrowdStrike is overstating the threat.
A few quick takes on GitHub’s annual report includes insights on non-U.S. contributions, developers supporting dependencies and the number of private repos.
Salesforce is buying Tableau and Google Cloud is adding Looker to its family. After reviewing a panoply of studies about business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data warehousing, we found it evident that both acquisitions will provide best-in-class functionality addressing the needs of both business analysts and the IT department, as well as leadership in high-growth markets that are only tangentially related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The Microsoft/Oracle partnership further guarantees support for Oracle applications can be run in a cloud (Azure) even if the company does not choose Oracle as its primary cloud provider.
Fifty-three percent of IT leaders made significant changes to their IT operating model or organization in the last two years, and another 37 percent are in the process of making changes according to the aforementioned survey.