Fifteen years ago, global cybersecurity spending was in the $3.5 billion range. Three years ago, it was $120 billion. Next year? Try a cool $1 trillion. Some executives in the information technology world are beginning to wonder what protection $1 trillion might actually bring. Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that cybercrime will cost global businesses more ...

Many enterprises are looking to begin the transition of bringing workers back to physical offices. However, given the rise in COVID-19 cases across the U.S., it has become more complicated for this to occur and is forcing enterprises to pivot to a hybrid work environment. As businesses fight to keep their companies afloat in today’s ...

In the time it takes to read this sentence, more than 60,000 tweets will have already been sent. Twitter Inc. today has 330 million monthly active users, 1.3 billion accounts and 83% of the world’s leaders use the service. Yet, as the company’s 15th employee hired in 2008 saw it, one of the most powerful ...

In a region known for creative company headquarters, Silicon Valley had never seen anything quite like what GitHub designed for its corporate offices nearly a decade ago. After meeting for years in bars and restaurants around San Francisco, the company’s co-founders took over a suite of offices that included a bar with beer on tap, a ...

The cloud industry sometimes takes itself too seriously in certain areas and not seriously enough in others. Corey Quinn is here to set the record straight on both counts. The chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group (pictured) writes a blog on the firm’s website in which he has alternately lambasted Amazon Web Services Inc. for its ...

After departing one fledgling company to lead IBM Corp.’s global storage business four years ago, Ed Walsh is returning to the startup world he knows quite well. Walsh (pictured), who previously served as chief executive officer of four startup companies, including Avamar Technologies Inc. and Storwize Inc., has been named CEO and a director at ChaosSearch Inc., ...

For nearly a decade, cloud-first has been the dominant approach to cloud adoption initiatives as organizations sought to drive digital transformation and modernization. As with most technologies, cloud services have evolved over the years, adding features and complexity that can muddle the rush to cloud with additional potential risk. Cloud technologies are also at the ...

There is a right way and a wrong way to run a business in the cloud. Forrest Brazeal (pictured) has songs, cartoons and even a soon-to-be-released book on the subject to prove it. Brazeal, the “cloud bard” for training company A Cloud Guru, spent years working with enterprises on cloud adoption and is an advocate ...

As the global pandemic continues to significantly challenge public-sector organizations, Amazon Web Services Inc. is expanding its public-sector footprint to help meet growing cloud-technology demands. To address the countless needs of an often regulated market, AWS continues to invest in an ecosystem of partners to support its global growth. Last week, AWS Public Sector awarded a ...

In the world of information technology operations, observability extends the principles of IT monitoring by pulling together data from logs, metrics, traces and events to empower operators to identify root causes of issues and resolve them quickly. Cloud-native observability, in turn, extends these capabilities to Kubernetes and, by extension, the full gamut of multicloud hybrid ...