ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.
ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.
When football fans checked their email and uploaded photos from Super Bowl 50 this year, the Denver-based security software startup ProtectWise was monitoring traffic from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for potential threats.
This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.
This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.
On a July day in 2014 some people from IBM and Apple got together in a room at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California to start work on their recently announced business app creation partnership. The fact that the two companies were working together at all sounded a little unlikely; IBM, after all, was once cast in Apple mythology as the big, slow, and safe antithesis of everything Steve Jobs wanted his company to be. At least in the consumer space, the two were bitter rivals.
Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.
Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.
Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, perseverance, and other attributes similar to those of great leaders. In fact, elite athletes can tell us a great deal about how to be better leaders, says Stan Beecham, author of Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success.
One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they’re built, but can it do that fast enough?
One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they’re built, but can it do that fast enough?
Cybercrime damages cost the world $3 trillion last year alone, according to a recent report from Cybersecurity Ventures, and that figure is expected to double by 2021, putting it on par with the current sum of U.S. corporate debt. This catastrophe will probably worsen before it improves. As smart-home technology spreads through the Internet of Things (IoT), a Security of Things (IoT) infrastructure will need to come with it.
For the executives of growing companies, devoting the time to read for a few hours a week adds value in more ways than one.
For the executives of growing companies, devoting the time to read for a few hours a week adds value in more ways than one.
Jessica Mah, the CEO of inDinero, a San Francisco-based accounting software startup, sees reading as so important to the growth of her company that she reads two books a week. Mah, one of Fast Company‘s Most Creative People, explains:
Here’s what it takes to strike the right balance between being polite and seeming overly deferential.
Here’s what it takes to strike the right balance between being polite and seeming overly deferential.
It’s normal to err on the side of being respectful, especially if you’re at the earlier stages of your career, meeting new colleagues, or wooing a prospective client or hiring manager. No one wants to look presumptuous or too informal for the situation.
When This American Life signed a deal with Pandora, it amplified a raucous, behind-the-scenes debate over the future of public radio.
When This American Life signed a deal with Pandora, it amplified a raucous, behind-the-scenes debate over the future of public radio.
This spring, This American Life and its creator and host, Ira Glass, became the latest flashpoints in a long-simmering public radio civil war.
Sources claim that when distributors won’t sell to Jet.com, it sometimes buys out brick & mortar stock instead, to the ire of manufacturers.
Sources claim that when distributors won’t sell to Jet.com, it sometimes buys out brick & mortar stock instead, to the ire of manufacturers.
Last fall, Barbara*, who works in the marketing department of a holistic pet supplement maker, was in the process of putting together a pricing policy for her company’s products when her boss asked her to look into a site called Jet.com.
From Sephora to Ulta to independent startups, the cosmetics industry is embracing what is clearly much more than a passing fad.
From Sephora to Ulta to independent startups, the cosmetics industry is embracing what is clearly much more than a passing fad.
I showed up at a Korean beauty blogger panel discussion in Los Angeles this past July because I wanted to understand the appeal of snail mucus face masks. The panel was part of KCON, the world’s biggest Korean culture convention.
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