The pandemic has changed the way we think about and predict the future. As we enter the third year of COVID, we see the significant impact it has had on technology strategies, spending patterns and company fortunes. Much has changed, and although many of these changes were forced reactions to a new abnormal, the trends ...

As the calendar turns to 2022, businesses worldwide are preparing for another year of economic uncertainty, anxiety and threat. Those that seize the opportunities created by this shifting landscape will be more successful, and their flexibility and adaptability might even determine whether they survive. Not surprisingly, then, cloud adoption continues to accelerate as businesses seek ...

The cybersecurity risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions and ever-growing network complexity have certainly not gone unnoticed by executives. In a recent Deloitte survey of C-suite executives, 72% said their organizations experienced between one and 10 cyber incidents and breaches in the last year alone. This type of persistent threat – and the inability ...

It hasn’t always been easy to get employees excited about how artificial intelligence will one day transform their day-to-day work tasks. Despite all the well-deserved excitement amongst technology evangelists like me, the technology is still in the early phases of the diffusion curve as many are still wrapping their heads around its potential. For more ...

The expansion of digital services and solutions continues to put pressure on information technology departments to deliver more reliable, scalable platforms. “Resilience” has been the buzzword for how to thrive amidst changing environments, and organizations that fail to incorporate it into their operating environments are seeing the effect in key business measures such as customer ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has blossomed into a $60 billion-plus annual revenue company by persuading thousands of businesses that running their information technology operations in its cloud makes much more sense than running their own data centers. But now, a lot of processing is moving to the edge of networks as more workloads such as ...

One reason Adam Selipsky was appointed chief executive of Amazon Web Services Inc. earlier this year was his extensive experience at AWS — but it’s a good bet that his tenure heading Tableau Software Inc. before and after its acquisition by Salesforce.com Inc. was a key factor as well. After all, in some ways the ...

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 ...