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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data protection is rapidly emerging as one of the hottest subsets of the enterprise storage market, and it’s becoming ripe for consolidation as the battle for market share intensifies between legacy players and a host of well-funded startups. In his latest Breaking Analysis video, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at SiliconANGLE sister market research firm Wikibon and ...

“Set the tone, establish trust and then inch your way toward large-scale operations.” That advice comes from the Yariv Bash, chief executive of Flytrex Aviation Ltd., a company providing the first on-demand urban drone delivery service in the U.S. Bash’s statement illustrates how enterprise technology entrepreneurs are thinking today, but it does more than that: ...

Infrastructure automation is no longer optional. It is at the core of many of the major changes happening in enterprise information technology. DevOps requires it. Modern infrastructure technologies such as containers and public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service enable it. Managing the coming proliferation of huge numbers of connected devices will not be possible without it. So it’s no ...

As enterprises seek to achieve the scalability and flexibility benefits of cloud-native computing using technologies such as microservices, containers and serverless computing, they quickly run into a wall: How do they ensure the resulting infrastructure and the apps running on it are performing properly? Traditional monitoring technologies and approaches are simply not up to the ...

The first time I heard about the emergent PagerDuty a few years ago, I wondered: Is another notification layer between information technology service management or ITSM tickets and IT monitoring alerts even a market? Gartner still doesn’t seem to think so. But after attending PagerDuty Summit 2019 in San Francisco (below), I admired a crater-sized ...

What is at the center of a successful software delivery? Is it measured only by the speed and quality of the resulting user experience, or does the real value lie somewhere within the responsiveness of the data that feeds it, from within an increasingly distributed and ephemeral hybrid information technology architecture? We seem to be ...

VMware Inc.’s diverse enterprise infrastructure product line has found its way into the vast majority of information technology shops around the world. Uncover the company’s DNA, however, and it’s clear VMware is a hypervisor company at its core. So when VMware announced at its VMworld conference this week that its flagship hypervisor ESXi will no ...