The tech industry is obsessed with enterprise customers. Growth, both on and off the balance sheet, is almost considered synonymous to the number of enterprise contracts secured within a given quarter. This enterprise fixation holds true across the spectrum from early startups to large, well-established companies. It makes sense, as enterprise customers often equate to ...

People have long regarded Informatica Inc. as a stodgy provider of extract, transform and load or ETL services, proficient at moving data from mainframes to data warehouses, but not much else. Then in 2015, the company went private, entering its chrysalis for a six-year metamorphosis. The company emerged in the public markets in October 2021 as a ...

With the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 last week in València, Spain, the Kubernetes world came roaring back to life after a lackluster conference in Los Angeles last fall – in spite of a rigorous conference-wide mask mandate. The general feeling at the conference was that the Kubernetes ecosystem is reaching an ...

The Biden administration recently issued a laundry list of essential cybersecurity protections for private-sector organizations to implement. The list runs the gamut of must-haves, including two-factor authentication, offline data backups, installing system patches and updating passwords. Although the announcement was nominally sparked by the war in Ukraine and threat intelligence indicating the potential for Russian cyberattacks, ...

Verizon, can you hear me now? I am sounding a call to arms to shake up, break up and decentralize your old industry. I’m not alone. I’m joined by hordes of telecom geeks decentralizing giants like you, AT&T and Vodafone. Your old ways aren’t fit for modern life. Your semi-monopolies should disintegrate like dandelions in ...

Technology’s impact on society and national economies continues to intensify, in turn increasing the business responsibilities of technology service providers and what their customers expect from them. This deeper entrenchment in business has also made technology providers much more sensitive to factors beyond information technology. It’s no longer sufficient for them to address client needs ...

Reaching double unicorn status, Docker Inc. is fresh off a Series C round of funding in March injecting $105 million into the company. Known for pioneering modern container solutions, Docker’s revitalized spin on developer tools is proving popular. Ahead of DockerCon 2022, the company’s latest developments will be top of mind. Last month Docker acquired ...

Application modernization startup vFunction Inc. today added a companion to its automated software modernization platform that organizations can use to calculate the impact of technical debt across their application portfolio to help in setting priorities for which applications to modernize. The company, which raised $12.2 million in seed funding in early 2021 and $26 million more late ...

The shift to remote and hybrid work was a sudden change brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with this change also came a rapid surge to move applications to the cloud. Although the shift to the cloud was in process before the pandemic, businesses had to shift to a higher gear quickly to access ...

Data center outages are expensive. Many organizations actually rush to migrate to the cloud, in part, to obtain the 99.9% or more availability that public cloud providers promise them. In their haste, those same organizations often fail to guard against the potential cost of “unexpected uptime” in the cloud. Because leaders of infrastructure and operations, or ...