Sustainable business is a strategy that incorporates environmental, social and governance factors into decision-making, and it is becoming an increasingly important component of business strategy. In fact, in a recent Gartner survey, chief executives identified environmental sustainability as a top 10 business priority for the first time in a decade. Technology is an essential part ...

The rapid shift to hybrid work has transformed where and how work happens. Today’s workers are more likely to hop online from their home office than from the company’s main office, creating new challenges for the information technology security teams charged with keeping networks safe — and moving the edge to front and center. Amid ...

Two mainstays drive most application migration and modernization initiatives. First, organizations are moving workloads to the cloud as an innovation catalyst. Achieving their strategic goals requires the speed, agility, reliability and advanced technical capabilities available to them in a hyperscale cloud. Second, they’re intent on ensuring the return on investment through cost optimization, which is ...

What comes to mind when you hear “open source?” Is it a community? Better-quality software? A technology advantage that helps companies scale quickly? If so, congratulations. You understand the value developing with open-source software can bring to a business — despite a lot of noise to the contrary. Recent headlines about OSS vulnerabilities paint open-source tools ...

In the last year and a half, information technology departments have been critical to companies’ ability to amend their operational models and enable employees to work remotely. The responsibility for enabling their companies to navigate this transition — and prepare for an uncertain future — has given IT departments a considerable boost in strategic significance across ...

In perhaps one of the most audacious advertising campaigns in the history of personal security technology, LifeLock Inc. Chief Executive Todd Davis famously gave out his Social Security number in commercials that seemed to run on a loop on broadcast and cable television throughout the mid-2000s. Davis even went so far as to put the ...

In most organizations, artificial intelligence models are “black boxes,” where only data scientists understand what exactly AI does. That can create significant risk for organizations. Large, sensitive datasets are often used to train AI models, creating privacy and data breach risks. The use of AI increases an organization’s threat vectors and broadens its attack surface. ...

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 ...