Many companies go to the cloud to keep up with the Joneses or others. Some go to the cloud to keep up with their own needs. Others set impossible requirements that preclude the cloud. Yet others set goals that make creating on-site difficult. Many who go to the cloud, however, go without thought. There are …
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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.
I recently wrote an article about a potential class action court case being brought against the President of the United States by the Knight Foundation. In the article, I posited that public servants who use their private social media accounts to make work-related statements may run the risk of causing their accounts to become public …
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When I write “data protection,” do you assume this means endpoint security, data security, data encryption, disaster recovery, or business continuity? Or do you think it entails just knowing where your data resides? Actually, it could mean all of the above, which in turn means that data protection comprises several overlapping technologies. There is no …
What follows in pure conjecture, and in no way constitutes legal opinion. It merely outlines one of many possible outcomes. An article in the New York Post on June 6 reported on a potential legal case aiming to force President Trump to unblock users he has blocked from seeing or tweeting to his timeline, either directly …
We at the Virtualization Practice have been following the Oracle v. Google case regarding the “fair use” of Java APIs since its inception. For historical perspective, you can read these here, here, and here.
