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 ...

In what some regard as a highly competitive race for dominance among key players in the Robotic Process Automation or RPA space, the stakes became a little higher in June when Automation Anywhere Inc. hired a major tech industry executive to oversee the firm’s global sales and manage its partner ecosystem. Chris Riley (pictured), joined ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause widespread disruption around the world, and especially in the United States, large technology companies are working overtime to meet public-sector organizational needs.  Amazon Web Services Inc., the leader in public cloud, is expanding its efforts to support global governments in fighting COVID-19, as well as helping its partners ...

There is so much jargon surrounding the cloud-native world these days that the developer community’s DZone took the time to capture a great deal of it. That’s what a landscape with $66 billion in funding and a total market capitalization of more than $17 trillion will bring. There is containerization, microservices, continuous deployment and delivery. ...

As Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gears up for its HPE Discover Virtual Experience, taking place on June 23, the tech industry is dealing with the ups and downs of a global pandemic that affects every industry around the world. The effects of the coronavirus have even hit HPE leadership directly as Chief Executive Officer Antonio ...

The global spread of COVID-19 has driven organizations to rethink the way they work and operate. Many organizations think they have a working cloud strategy or are simple lacking one altogether. Both scenarios have been particularly poignant since the start of the pandemic as overall information technology services have been stressed with the influx of remote ...

As COVID-19 continues to affect the operating culture of almost every enterprise tech company around the world, some organizations’ sales numbers remain intact and are even growing. Case in point: Veeam Software Corp. The company’s enterprise products, which include backup, disaster recovery, and intelligent data management software, have earned a reputation of “it just works” ...

Many businesses and workers have realized that despite the ongoing pandemic, work operations can still take place remotely – and with little disruption. That is all thanks to connectivity networks, both residential broadband and cellular networks. Nearly every application, such as enterprise software, development tools, meeting and video conferencing tools and payment systems, relies on ...

When the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security or CARES Act became law on March 27, it created the Paycheck Protection Program, a novel lending program targeting small businesses in the U.S. By any metric, the PPP was unprecedented – the number of businesses that applied, the amount of money lenders disbursed and, perhaps most ...