In the cloud native ecosystem, there is a growing concern that “safe speed” is becoming an oxymoron along the lines of “jumbo shrimp.” Many impressive things are developed every day in the cloud and a lot of them can be created at lightning-fast speed. Yet a lot of mistakes can be made fast too, which ...

In the business world, “greenfield” is a market that has yet to be fully commercially exploited. The three co-founders of startup Jellyfish Co. believe they have found a significant greenfield opportunity in engineering management. There’s a lot at stake for engineering teams in most companies today. There are constant conflicts between speed of delivery and ...

With the rise of the DevOps culture, the challenge has now become how to enable “Dev” without the “Ops.” It has long been the goal of platform-as-a-service providers and various serverless and public cloud providers to free developers from operational burden. Yet as a recent GitLab Inc. survey has shown, the number of developers who ...

Dell Technologies Inc. made headlines this week when it said it’s exploring a possible spinoff of its 81% stake in VMware Inc., a data center software company that’s widely considered to be its most attractive asset. Dell is proposing a complex financial maneuver that’s designed to address a valuation shortfall that has plagued the company ...

The “internet of things” and connected-device revolution has arrived in hospitals around the world, and with it comes incredible promise for improved patient care and experience. But as with many technology advancements, these new wonders introduce risks into our most critical systems. Keeping these devices both secure and in compliance requires a new way of ...

The promise of cloud in the enterprise is all about speed and efficiency. Is it also about saving money? The market research firm 451 Research, which tracks cloud pricing on a quarterly basis, found that the number of line items offered for purchase by the five largest cloud providers doubled in 2019 and now exceeds ...

MariaDB Corp., which develops and sells an enterprise version of the open-source MariaDB database management system, today announced a $25 million funding round targeted specifically at its new cloud database, MariaDB SkySQL. The Series C round, the company’s first financing in more than two years but an extension of its last $27 million Series C round, ...

As a company leader, you have probably read countless articles during shelter-in-place on the benefits and downsides of remote working. There have also been a lot of articles on steps to reopen offices under social distancing guidelines, and your company is several months into remote working. Now it’s time to start longer-term planning to determine ...

In the business world, an unpredictable event with potentially severe consequences is known as a “black swan.” One tech investment firm – Sequoia Capital – characterized the COVID-19 global pandemic as precisely this kind of event in 2020. “It will take considerable time — perhaps several quarters — before we can be confident that the ...

Two important tenets surrounding the cloud revolution are that it should not be viewed as a destination, but rather a means to enable new ways of thinking, and that the technology should not lock a user into a single solution. The serverless data sharing startup Vendia Inc., which exited stealth mode on Tuesday, is a ...