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 ...

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. ...