In my last few articles, we have gone through some of the economics of IT: specifically, around the changes taking place in IT. My last article focused on the need to gain new knowledge in order to transform your career while IT is changing around you. That raises the question of how to gain the …
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Yet More Bad News for HPE Employees
It appears that “Slasher” Whitman has not finished her pruning of the topiary that is HPE. During the rather successful quarterly earnings call, on which HPE reported that it managed to beat Wall Street targets, she stated that “we are reducing the layers in our customer-facing organizations and shifting resources to the geographic markets that …
Avast, Ye Swabs — There’s Nothing to See Here
On the face of it, Avast is in a bit of a pickle. One of its headline applications, CCleaner, has just infected over two million consumer PCs across the globe with quite a sophisticated piece of malware. How it as a company handles the cleanup process is going to be quite telling.
What the Windows CCleaner Did
CCleaner, a program owned by Avast, is the center of a major security scare. Why should you be worried? Well, this product is used by millions of Windows users worldwide to run maintenance on their registry and file systems on their consumer Windows machines. The product has had over two billion downloads in its lifetime, …
Change, Transform, or Else
The message we get from the industry is that we must change, we must transform, or we will be left behind. What does this imply from an economic standpoint? Will your business go under? Will you lose employees? Will employees lose their jobs? Or is there something else going on here? These are questions from …
VMworld Europe 2017 – Roundup
In a slight change from normal behavior this week is VMware’s European VMworld soiree, I say a slight change as this is is usually held in October. The European conference is to be fair never as good as their US offering, yes the Keynote speeches had tip of the hat to the Europeans with Gelsinger …