In the beginning, there were just compute and storage services — followed in the next 16 years by more than 200 other cloud infrastructure services offered by Amazon Web Services Inc. But ahead of his keynote at re:Invent Tuesday morning, AWS Chief Executive Adam Selipsky hinted at his ambitious plan to move Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Adam Selipsky, who took the reins earlier this year as former AWS CEO Andy Jassy stepped up to head all of Amazon.com Inc., rejoined the company at a pivotal time. In this, the first of a four-part interview with me and Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante ahead of the ...

Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services Inc.’s new chief executive, doesn’t want to show all his cards just yet. But it’s clear, as he looks ahead in anticipation of the No. 1 cloud computing provider’s 10th annual re:Invent conference starting today, that he aims to set AWS on a new course.  On the surface, it doesn’t ...

Picture a network operator at a hospital. In the past year, this operator has been responsible for managing mission-critical infrastructure at the most challenging time. The hospital relies heavily on network infrastructure to support technologies that are essential to its operations and the health of its patients. Downtime and security failures are not an option, ...

When facing a ransomware attack, the first question chief information security officers are often asked is, “Should we pay the ransom?” Debates about whether to pay up have raged on in the security community for years. Most security professionals are steadfast in the belief that enterprises should never pay cybercriminals, as doing so will lead ...

The big five tech firms – Apple Inc., Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc., now Meta Platforms Inc. – often look invincible, destined to grow in importance as the digital world continually expands. But history says that digital leadership is only temporary. Is this still true? Our research says it probably is. As discussed below, ...

Modern enterprises are accelerating toward a cloud-first world amid a perfect storm of technological innovation and unprecedented market shifts. With the demand for greater agility and the need to support a distributed workforce, businesses today are undergoing fundamental change — leaning on public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and a myriad of ...

Splunk Inc. returned this week to the online format of its blockbuster annual event, Splunk .conf21, with the broad theme of “Turning Data into Doing,” which seems appropriate given the massive security and observability data volumes the firm interprets into analytics and response actions for global companies. What customers are doing with data Sticking to ...

The world of artificial intelligence is only just beginning. Given all the innovations taking place in the AI world, the possibilities that it creates are seemingly endless. Yet with increasingly prevalent concerns about ethics and the responsible use of AI, many business and information technology leaders are looking to better understand how this technology will ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship KubeCon/CloudNativeCon conference returned triumphantly to in-person mode this week in Los Angeles – albeit with the obligatory virtual component. But it was the opportunity to return to live human interactions without the Zoom “Brady Bunch” boxes that was unquestionably the highlight of the show. The numbers in attendance at the ...