Supercloud is quickly becoming a reality for enterprises and their business-critical applications.  Organizations must be able to assemble infrastructure services from multiple cloud providers to deliver optimal results for their business. “You need consistent architecture, obviously not just for one cloud, but for any cloud,” said Steve Mullaney (pictured), president and chief executive officer of ...

In today’s real-time world, companies must deal with data in a different way than they did 10 years ago. Enterprise technology and the amount of data being collected have evolved and increased. Modern companies need something that can support their core business practices and deliverables, as well as propel their IT into the future. MariaDB ...

Infrastructure and operations or I&O leaders are constantly challenged to deliver value while optimizing costs, a job that becomes even more difficult during tough economic times. Cutting costs in response to the current economic turmoil will only get organizations so far and may create problems later. Organizations must make flexible medium- to long-term plans that can ...

Massive throngs turned out for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s massive post-pandemic re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. As with its previous shows, AWS did not disappoint, with its laundry list of new and improved products, services and features. For a company its size, AWS continued to do a remarkable job pushing the innovation pedal ...

Snowflake Inc. built its data warehouse business on top of Amazon Web Services. In the early days, the company looked at AWS as a platform to remove the hassle of managing infrastructure, while at the same time enabling virtually infinite scaling of resources. That allowed Snowflake to rethink database architecture entirely to exploit the native ...

Informatica Corp. is extending its alliance with Amazon Web Services Inc. today with the announcement of a new set of cloud data management services that are intended to make it easier for nontechnical users to upload and manipulate data in AWS’ Redshift cloud data warehouse. Informatica said its Data Loader software, which is a free tool ...

Finding ways to save money on cloud computing bills is advantageous in any economic climate. But it’s an especially smart initiative to undertake during economic downturns. The reason is not just that businesses often need to scale back financially to remain fiscally healthy during recessions. It’s also that, when demand for cloud services decreases – ...

Despite the common belief that data center operations and the cloud generate information technology’s most significant environmental impacts, the embodied carbon of endpoint devices accounts for nearly half of overall IT greenhouse gas emissions in most enterprises. As digital business accelerates, the use of corporate endpoints and peripherals continues to grow exponentially. Consequently, managing the environmental ...

Times are tough, but that doesn’t mean chief information officers aspire to make them tougher. Yes, I’m talking about cloud repatriation, or the practice of moving workloads out of the cloud and back into private data centers. But, no, you shouldn’t do it. For every 37signals that moves a workload back on-premises, there are tens ...

Twitter is a company made up of thousands of employees with many different perspectives on what Twitter will be like with Elon Musk at the helm. Some are mortified, some may feel liberated and some just want to make it to their next paycheck. There is no sense in sugar-coating it: Over the next few ...