Most organizations agree that they cannot continue “business as usual” in the post-pandemic era. The buying patterns for cloud services are no exception. In the past, cloud models drove use cases, but today the opposite is true: Use cases are driving the adoption and selection of cloud and cloud providers. Early cloud adopters embraced disruption ...

As cloud infrastructure and platform services proliferate in enterprise environments, confidence in the security of the cloud continues to grow, and “cloud-first” strategies are now common even among risk-averse organizations. Yet in many cases, organizations still face a lack of necessary skills and tools to ensure secure cloud deployments. In a recent Gartner survey, the ...

As the world starts to reopen and organizations develop their return-to-work plans, it’s difficult to imagine how we would have navigated our way through this global pandemic without the internet. We live in an era that is more connected than ever before, making the internet, and the networks that comprise it, not just an essential ...

The cybersecurity conference Black Hat roared back to Las Vegas last week in spite of a renewed mask mandate and a virtual event alternative. My mission: Uncover what’s next in the world of enterprise cybersecurity. I spoke to a handful of promising vendors, asking each of them one basic question: “WTF?” As in: “Vendors have ...

Every chief executive is figuring out the right balance for new hybrid business models. Regardless of the chosen approach, which will vary, technology executives understand they must accelerate digital and build resilience as well as optionality into their platforms. This is driving a dramatic shift in information technology investments at the macro level as we ...

Traditionally, organizations have been forced to adapt their applications and operating processes to public cloud models in order to recognize the full benefits. This led to mixed results as legacy applications struggle to align fully to cloud models, particularly when using lift-and-shift migration methodologies. Because of this, the balance of power is shifting from cloud ...

Mobile World Congress is on for 2021, and theCUBE will be there in Barcelona to let you know if it’s alive and well. So as we approach a delayed MWC, it’s appropriate to reflect on the state of the telecommunications industry. Let’s face it: The telcos have done a great job of keeping us all ...

I used to commute over an hour each way, every day, before COVID. Like so many, lockdown left me with more time — more time to engage with my colleagues digitally, more time with my husband and kids, more time to walk, meditate and exercise. Although there are no silver linings to COVID, it has ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is pointing the way to a revolution in system architecture. Much in the same way that AWS defined the cloud operating model last decade, we believe it is once again leading in future systems. The secret sauce underpinning these innovations is specialized designs that break the stranglehold of inefficient and bloated ...

When it comes to closed-loop automation of large-scale networks, it can seem like we’re living in the movie “Groundhog Day.” For years, we’ve been told that fully automated, self-driving networks were just around the corner. Any day now, the story goes, you’ll be able to provision and activate new services with the push of a ...