When Amazon Web Services last held its re:Invent conference one year ago, the process of digital transformation was making slow but steady progress. Then the world was suddenly turned upside down and shaken vigorously. A global pandemic, a huge shock to the world economy, and a major shift in how humans live and work suddenly ...

When Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, the new group launched with 18 members. At the time, the founders issued a call that they were open to adding more organizations. Over the five years since, the computing world responded. At the most recent virtual gathering of ...

There is a saying attributed to Confucius that states that “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” The 6th century BC Chinese philosopher never saw the age of enterprise computing, but if he had, the solution to life’s complexity might well have been AIOps. The onset of a global pandemic and ...

Over the years, Snowflake Inc. has built its reputation as a cloud data management and warehouse provider. Yet, as the company builds out its Data Cloud, Snowflake has emerged as playing a much more central role in how enterprises will ultimately manage data-driven workloads. The key building block for the Snowflake platform is the region, ...

The announcement of general availability for Red Hat OpenShift 4.6 at the end of October signaled another step in the evolution of the open hybrid cloud. Red Hat Inc.’s customers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux can now run OpenShift on practically any platform they can find. “OpenShift provides an abstraction which combines Kubernetes on top ...

Threat actors have been effective at weaponizing email through phishing attacks and social media via disinformation and divisive posts. Now they are about to weaponize the edge as well. A recent report from FortiGuard Labs, the threat intelligence and research organization of Fortinet Inc., predicts that weaponizing of connected devices at the intelligent edge could ...

Nearly 20 years ago, core principles of the DevOps movement were actually written down. That was when 17 software developers created the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” and released it as a philosophy of teamwork and continuous delivery in February 2001. Those tenets remain very much a part of the DevOps culture today. The desire ...

When Dell Technologies  released its Global Data Protection Index 2020 Snapshot earlier this year, a couple of findings stood out. Businesses were now managing 40% more data than a year ago, and the cost of data loss had grown to over $1 million per organization. Facing that kind of risk, enterprises need effective enterprise data ...

The firm of Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that businesses around the world will be victimized by a ransomware attack every 11 seconds in 2021. With the frequency of such threats increasing, it is becoming more vital than ever for companies with critical data to protect it. JANA Investment Advisers Pty. Ltd. is Australia’s leading investment ...

Of the 19 tech companies that went public so far this year, 18 of them debuted at an average price of $23. The 19th company — Snowflake Inc. — opened at $120 and swiftly rose to set a record for the largest IPO by a U.S. software company in history. The company’s valuation, currently at ...