Facebook announced it is notifying more than 800,000 affected users after a bug temporarily reset certain account privacy settings. The social media giant said the bug allowed users who had been previously blocked on both Facebook and Messenger to become unblocked. In a statement, the company said the bug was live for about a week […]… Read More
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At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel’s data center group, would become Google Cloud’s new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn’t meant to last. After only seven months on the job, Bryant has left Google Cloud, as Business Insider first reported today.
“We can confirm that Diane Bryant is no longer with Google. We are grateful for the contributions she made while at Google and we wish her the best in her next pursuit,” a Google spokesperson told us when we reached out for comment.
The reason for Bryant’s departure are currently unclear. It’s no secret that Intel is looking for a new CEO and Bryant would fit the bill. Intel also famously likes to recruit insiders as its leaders, though I would be surprised if the company’s board had already decided on a replacement. Bryant spent more than 25 years at Intel and her hire at Google looked like it would be a good match, especially given that Google’s position behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud wars means that it needs all the executive talent it can get.
When Bryant was hired, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene noted that “Diane’s strategic acumen, technical knowledge and client focus will prove invaluable as we accelerate the scale and reach of Google Cloud.” According to the most recent analyst reports, Google Cloud’s market share has ticked up a bit — and its revenue has increased at the same time — but Google remains a distant third in the competition and it doesn’t look like that’s changing anytime soon.
However, …
“Multi-CDN is not the goal. It’s the tool helping people realize the goal.” — Rob Malnati, Citrix
In a recent webcast from Dan Rayburn and Rob Malnati, …
In a recent Operational Technology (OT) cyberattack, Monero Crypto-currency mining malware was discovered in the ICS network of a water utility company located in Europe. The company found the malware during a routine monitoring check of their OT network and confirmed that
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The digital transformation is upon us, and telecom operators seem to be the ones directly under the impact of it. The advent of new data and technological needs has meant that we now need to give nothing less than the
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state-backed media group CMC Inc said on Tuesday it raised around 10 billion yuan ($1.49 billion) in a fundraising round from investors including tech giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK). Hyundai
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We're behind on our reading, but did manage to get to Gigged - The End of the Job and The Future of Work.
The book profiles a mix of gig workers, including an Uber driver, a computer programmer, someone working via Mechanical Turk and a few others.
The theme that unites them is they all get work via an online marketplace or platform.
The book's bottom line on the gig economy is for those with the right skills (like the computer programmer), the gig economy provides a flexible, interesting and lucrative alternative to a traditional job.
But for those without the right skills, Kessler describes gig work as "the best of bad options".
That the gig economy has good and bad sides is something our research has clearly shown since we started digging into this topic a decade or so ago.
So we agree with the book's point that for many the gig economy is "the best of bad options". We also agree with the book's suggestion that need new laws and a new social contract to make gig work safer, fairer and more secure.
It would also be nice to make traditional jobs safer, more secure and more lucrative. Then people could choose between good options instead of bad.
Overall we very much like Gigged. It provides insights on the struggles many gig workers face while also showing there are people who are thriving as gig workers.
But we do have one major quibble: it only profiles people who are working, or trying to work, full-time or close to full-time in the gig economy.
This ignores a very important attribute of the gig economy. It provides millions of people a low friction, highly flexible, part-time way to supplement their income.
And since the majority of people working in the gig economy do so part-time, this, in our opinion, is a big miss.
But we still highly recommend Gigged to anyone interested in the gig economy and/or the future of work.
It's well written, easy to read and covers both the good and bad of the gig economy from the point of view of those working in it.
Dell, which went private in one of the the largest leveraged buyouts in tech circa 2013, announced today that it will once again be going public through a relatively complex mechanism that will once again bring the company back onto the public markets with founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners largely in control.
Dell’s leveraged buyout largely marked the final page in the company’s storied history as a PC provider, going back to the old “dude, you’re getting a Dell” commercials. The company rode that wave to dominance, but as computing shifted to laptops, mobile phones, and complex operations were offloaded into cloud services like Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud, Dell found itself navigating a complex environment while having to make a significant business transition beyond the PC era. That meant Dell would be beholden to the whims of public markets, perhaps laden with short-term pessimism over the company’s urgent need to find a transition.
The transaction is actually an offer to buy shares that track the company’s involvement in VMWare, converting that tracking stock into Dell Technologies stock that would mark its return as a publicly-traded company. Those shares will end up traded on the NYSE, around five years later after its founder took the company private with Silver Lake Partners in a deal worth roughly $25 billion. Silver Lake Partners owns around 24% of the company, while Dell owns 72% and will continue to serve as the chairman and CEO of the company. This move helps the company bypass the IPO process, which would remove the whole time period of potential investors scrutinizing the company (which has taken on a substantial debt load).
Dell said in its most recent quarter it recorded revenue of $21.4 billion, up 19% year-over-year, and over the past 12 months the company generated $82.4 billion of revenue with a net loss of $2.3 billion. The company said it has also paid down $13 billion of gross debt since its combination with EMC back in 2016. All this has been part of the company’s transition to find new businesses beyond just selling computers, though there’s clearly still demand for those computers in offices around the world. As it has expanded into a broader provider of IT services, it’s potentially positioned itself as a modern enterprise tools provider, which would allow it to more securely navigate public markets while offering investors a way to correctly calibrate its value.
As we all know by now, the human factor is crucial to enterprise security. Cyber attacks routinely exploit vulnerable human behaviors to gain entry, since organizations must trust their own people—or at least some of them—with access to critical systems. Humans make decisions on risk tradeoffs, funding for security programs, adherence to policies, and hiring, […]… Read More
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Last time, I had the pleasure of speaking with Susan Ballestero. She taught me a lot about what it’s like to work in a security operations center. This time, I got the opportunity to speak with Rebecca Herold. She’s been in the cybersecurity field for quite a long time now. She founded SIMBUS, LLC, a […]… Read More
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このブログはCitrix Cloud SuccessチームのCloud Guidepost: Understanding the Control Plane and Planning the Access Layer の日本語翻訳に加筆修正したものです。
ヨーロッパ人以外で初めてノーベル文学賞を受賞したRabindranath Tagore（ラビンドラナート・タゴール）氏は、著書『Stray Birds（迷い鳥たち）』に「私の人生に雲が浮かんでくる。それはもはや雨を降らせるためでもなく、嵐を呼ぶためでもなく、ただ私の夕暮れ時の空に彩りを添えるためにだ」と記しています。この偉大な作家といわゆる「クラウド」とは何の関係もないことはよくわかっていますが、彼のこの名言は私にとって非常に興味深いものです。それはおそらく、私はクラウドテクノロジーの専門家であり、これらに関するあらゆるものが好きだからでしょう。また、既によくご存知だと思いますが、パブリッククラウドの利用はますます一般的になっています。Citrix Cloud Successでは、Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop ServiceをMicrosoft Azureと組み合わせて展開したいというお客様がたくさんいらっしゃいました。「夕暮れ時の空に彩りを添える」ために、この分野で私が学んできたことを共有しながら、お客様が最適な環境を実現できるように支援したいと考えています。これによって、お客様ご自身の環境を展開する際の作業が少しでも簡単になれば幸いです。
このブログは3つのパートから成り、このパート1では、Citrix Cloud管理プレーン、リソースロケーション、アクセスレイヤーの考慮事項について説明します。
Microsoft Azureに展開する必要があるコンポーネントを理解し、正しく計画するには、Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops …
