The cloud native ecosystem is currently going through its own kind of industrial revolution, so it seemed fitting that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation held its blockbuster open-source KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 event this week in Detroit, where the world’s first auto assembly line was set in motion over a century ago. Much ...

Digital transformation is no longer a technology consideration. It is a business priority. Whether it be financial services, public sector or healthcare, organizations of all types must now embrace modern technologies in order to drive growth and innovate. One of the key tenets of digital transformation is leveraging the power and flexibility of cloud technology for ...

In many tellings, the path to application modernization goes like this: First, you refactor your application into microservices. Next, you containerize each service. Finally, you deploy it on Kubernetes, the open source orchestration engine that has become the de facto platform for running containerized apps. The thing is, not all modernization stories follow this narrative. ...

Relying on legacy technologies can create business risk and stifle revenue growth. Information technology leaders must highlight the opportunities that will emerge from addressing technology debt. In the fight against inflationary economic headwinds, enterprises need innovation and growth more than ever. However, technology debt often creates unnecessary costs and risk, holding businesses back from optimization ...

Today’s privacy-conscious environment presents mounting challenges for enterprise data processing infrastructure. The confluence of legislation and consumer sentiment is pressing both digital natives and transforming enterprises to reshape their customer data strategies to embed data privacy in their operations. In reaction, enterprises are reorienting how they collect and process customer data to optimize around consent, ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $7.5 million in seed funding. It’s pitching a “user-first” web browser security offering that’s designed to prevent malware infections and prevent so-called “phishing” attacks that result in data loss and compromised passwords. Today’s funding round was led by Glilot Capital Partners and Kmehin ...

Given the rapid growth that robotic process automation leader UiPath Inc. has shown over the last few years, it’s no wonder that the small robotics process automation pond isn’t enough for the company to swim in. Instead, it wants to be the big fish in the expanding enterprise automation lake. I covered last year’s Forward ...

When artificial intelligence augments or even replaces human decisions, it amplifies good and bad outcomes alike. There are numerous risks and potential harms created by AI systems, including bias and discrimination, financial or reputational loss, lack of transparency and explainability, or invasions of security and privacy. Responsible AI enables the right outcomes by resolving dilemmas rooted ...

Historically, VMware Inc.‘s VMworld conference was one of the big three enterprise tech conferences, along with the RSA Conference and AWS re:Invent, that was large enough to transcend its primary sponsor, thus becoming one of the must-attend conferences of the year. In contrast, this week VMware hosted the newly renamed VMware Explore conference – about one-third ...

The precise direction of VMware Inc.’s future is unknown, given the planned Broadcom Inc. acquisition, but one thing is clear: The subject of what Broadcom Chief Executive Hock E. Tan plans will not be the main focus of the agenda at the upcoming VMware Explore event next week in San Francisco. We believe that despite ...