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The term supercloud is relatively new, but the concepts behind it have been bubbling for years. Early last decade when the National Institute of Standards and Technology put forth its original definition of cloud computing, it said services had to be accessible …
How the cloud is changing security defenses in the 2020s
The rapid pace of cloud adoption has changed the way organizations approach cybersecurity. Specifically, the cloud is increasingly becoming the first line of cybersecurity defense. As such, along with communicating to the board and creating a security-aware culture, the chief information security …
AWS re:Inforce marks a summer checkpoint on cybersecurity
After a two-year hiatus, Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Inforce is back on as an in-person event in Boston July 26 and 27. Like the All-Star break in baseball, re:Inforce gives us an opportunity to evaluate the cybersecurity market overall, the state of …
Amping it up with Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman
Organizations have considerable room to improve their performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure or fundamental business model. You don’t need a slew of consultants to tell you what to do. You already know. What you need is to immediately …
Answering the top 10 questions about supercloud
As we exited the isolation economy last year, we introduced supercloud as a term to describe something new that was happening in the world of cloud computing. In this Breaking Analysis, we address the ten most frequently asked questions we get on supercloud. Today …
Tech valuations could get worse. Here’s why we’re still optimistic
After a two-year epic run in tech stocks, 2022 has been an epically bad year in the market. Through yesterday, the Nasdaq composite index is down 30%, the S&P 500 is off 21%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 16% and the …
Tech spending intentions hold steady despite macroeconomic concerns
Despite fears of inflation, supply chain issues, skyrocketing energy and home prices, and global instability caused by the Ukraine crisis, chief information officers and information technology buyers continue to expect overall spending to increase more than 6% in 2022. Although this is …
Snowflake Summit 2022: All about apps and monetizing data
Much of the energy around data innovation that dispersed with the decline of big-data processing framework Hadoop’s relevance is coalescing in a new ecosystem spawned by the ascendency of Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud. What was once seen as a simpler cloud data …
How Snowflake plans to make Data Cloud a de facto standard
When Frank Slootman took ServiceNow Inc. public, many people undervalued the company, positioning it as just a better help desk tool. It turns out the firm actually had a massive total available market expansion opportunity in information technology service management, human resources, …
MongoDB sends strong signals despite cautious macro tones
Earnings season has shown a conflicting mix of signals for software companies. Most firms are expressing caution over macro headwinds citing a combination of Ukraine, inflation, interest rates, overseas softness, currency, supply chain and general demand for technology. But MongoDB Inc., along with …