Even before the ravages of COVID-19, organizational resilience was vital to any business. But now — with a possible recession on the horizon — resilience is a strategic imperative for business survival.  As a term, “resilience” is often subject to misunderstanding. Gartner defines organizational resilience as “the ability of an organization to resist, absorb, recover and adapt to business disruption ...

I had my tickets to attend an annual development, information technology operations and support conference in Las Vegas last week, but, out of an abundance of caution, it instead ran Atlassian Remote Summit this year. So I covered it virtually, and even visited with a few select ecosystem vendors that were planning to sponsor. Atlassian’s ...

This is the second part of a two-part series. Click here for part 1. We’re looking forward to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s upcoming KubeCon conference in Europe in August and in Boston in November – but if you’re like me, you can’t wait. It’s a good thing, therefore, that I interviewed the hottest vendors ...

This is the first of a two-part series. This week, throngs of cloud-native computing fans were set to descend on Amsterdam for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s conference for all things Kubernetes. Alas, like so many other conferences, the CNCF decided to postpone KubeCon. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still write about the ...

What a year to make a comeback. After a four-year hiatus, the Vertica Big Data Conference was all set to return this month, until the novel coronavirus came along. The rapidly spreading virus has caused an unprecedented number of cancellations of in-person events impacting every industry, from sports games to film festivals to technology conferences. ...

As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc across the world, many enterprises have rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies to keep their operations ticking — and that shift to the home office is likely to become the “new normal” not only for many workers but for tech providers as well. Square in the eye of that storm ...

Until it runs its course, the coronavirus’ impact on human life is difficult to predict. But the impact on the business world is even more opaque. Gaining insight into the future is such a challenge largely because this virus is entirely unprecedented. True, the stock market is down and we’re likely entering a recession. But ...

Can artificial intelligence help employers manage remote work forces in this dire time of economic distress resulting from the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus? The founder of one startup believes so, boasting machine-powered assistance designed for today’s challenges of leadership to mitigate the loss of worker productivity.  Enaible Inc., founded in 2018, uses AI ...

Self-quarantined employees are forcing organizations to allow access to critical data remotely. As a result, the coronavirus pandemic is presenting organizations with a unique opportunity to adopt modern security protocols and enable an efficient remote workforce. Fear of coronavirus infections has resulted in organizations ruling out large meetings. Healthy individuals are in home quarantine for ...

The rise of serverless technology as part of a broader cloud application modernization movement has been going on for a few years. But the serverless romance has just sparked up, as the execution rate of functions-as-a-service or FaaS approaches such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Lambda has spiked dramatically over the last year. Average weekly ...