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Predictions 2020: Cloud, Kubernetes and cybersecurity will rule

As we enter 2020, most large enterprises are beginning to moderate their spending on information technology. But at the same time, they’re doubling down on the emerging technologies they believe will have the most transformational effect on their business — something they’ll be stepping up throughout the New Year. With enterprises racing to complete their ...
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Analysis: Drifting back down from the clouds at AWS re:Invent

Spending a marathon week in Vegas for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference earlier this month provided a nice end cap for the tech event season, and a great chance to catch up with technology leaders and peers with a stake in developing and delivering software in a cloud-native future. Rather than recapping an event so fully covered ...
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Analysis: AWS positions itself at the center of a hybrid, multicloud world

You won’t find any trace of the words  “hybrid” and “multicloud” in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s official discourse, but several key announcements made at its re:Invent conference this month suggest it sees those trends as the next big opportunity to expand its reach into the enterprise. In his latest Breaking Analysis video, Dave Vellante, chief ...
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As cloud transformation gathers pace, Cisco sees big opportunity in multicloud

Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. hosts its annual analyst meeting along with a major product announcement Wednesday, where it will face a number of tough questions on how it plans to evolve its business as it heads into a new era of cloud transformation. In his latest Breaking Analysis video, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at SiliconANGLE sister market research ...
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Analysis: Cloud 2.0 is upon us, and Amazon is still leading the way

With Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference just around the corner, the spotlight once again falls on Amazon.com’s Inc.’s cloud computing company and its dominance of the public cloud — and this year’s event comes at a critical time. As the public cloud enters the Cloud 2.0 era, the talk is no longer about “digital transition,” but rather ...
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At KubeCon, cloud-native starts to get real for the enterprise

Keynote speakers inadvertently signaled a tipping point for Kubernetes and the entire cloud-native computing movement this week at the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference in San Diego. During the first day of keynotes, Liz Rice, chair of the CNCF technical oversight committee and vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security, ...
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Analysis: Dell transformation goes full steam ahead but big challenges remain

More than four years have passed since Dell Technologies Inc. announced its intent to acquire the data storage company EMC Corp. in a blockbuster $67 billion deal. During that time the company has successfully transformed itself from one that was largely becoming irrelevant to CIOs, into one of the most dominant players in enterprise technology ...
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Has low-code programming arrived? These five companies think so

Low-code platforms are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to hand-coding applications, particularly in large enterprises. The reasons for this switch are also rapidly becoming well-established: Low-code, a method of developing software applications quickly with little manual coding, accelerates the work of professional developers, leading to a more rapid delivery of software that is also of ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT

Analysis: The cybersecurity industry is evolving, but it’s still broken

The cybersecurity industry has undergone a sea change over the past decade as organizations find themselves under almost constant attack from an array of state-sponsored attackers and increasingly skillful and professional criminals. And not surprisingly, money is behind the spread of cybercrime, with one estimate from Cybersecurity Ventures that puts the cost to enterprises at ...
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Longtime storage provider NetApp aims to transform into something more

NetApp Inc. is a longtime leader in the enterprise storage marketplace, nudging out competitors Dell EMC, Pure Storage Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. for the top spot in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage. Just one problem: NetApp doesn’t really want to be a storage vendor at all. Instead, it sees itself as ...