The Kubernetes story in 2020 is not so much about how it has become ubiquitous in enterprise computing, but rather how the groundwork is being laid for it to disappear. The popular container orchestration tool has continued its massive growth path, with 91% of companies reporting adoption and 75% use within enterprise production environments, according ...

In the beginning, there was “Dev” and there was “Ops.” Now, the term “DevOps” has taken its place in the tech lexicon, and the combination symbolizes how developers and IT operations have blended into one unit block. What propelled DevOps to the forefront of organizational focus was a desire to drive both productivity and software ...

Like a winter storm that suddenly comes down from a mountain and drops two feet of snow on a town’s unprepared residents, Snowflake Inc.’s eye-popping initial public offering in September became the largest U.S. software company IPO in history. Wasn’t the data warehouse market supposed to be dead? The company’s record-setting valuation, which recently hovered around $77 ...

With the presidential election of 2020 presumably decided in favor of President-elect Joe Biden, what does the political future hold for the tech industry? That was the focus of Lincoln Reboot 2020, a three-day virtual event ending today that was organized by the Lincoln Network, a right-leaning political organization that brings together technologists, government officials ...

In a time when routines have been significantly disrupted, even corporate quarterly earnings calls can yield a surprise. One such event with top executives from Salesforce.com Inc., generally routine affairs filled with standard financial reporting, took an unexpected turn in August. During the Salesforce call, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive, revealed that a third ...

Less than two years after taking the helm at Google Cloud, Chief Executive Thomas Kurian has made his playbook for competing with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure clear: Build for a multicloud future, democratize analytics and press the advantage offered by BigQuery. That last strategy has proved to be a major factor in Google ...

The technology industry is learning how to collaborate more effectively in an effort to combat cybersecurity attacks at a time when the threat environment is becoming more dangerous. In late October, three government agencies, including the FBI, issued an alert warning of increased ransomware attacks on hospitals. “Trickbot” malware has been used as a primary ...

Corporate quarterly earnings calls are usually mundane affairs, but the conference with Salesforce.com Inc.’s top executives at the end of August was more revealing than most. During the discussion, Salesforce Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff suddenly dropped a startling data point. He indicated that a third of the company’s nearly 50,000 employees were “reporting ...

IBM announced an expansion of storage capabilities that left no doubt about its strategic approach: It is a containerized world, and IBM — through its integration with Red Hat’s OpenShift platform for Kubernetes — intends to be a major part of it. “We are launching a number of solutions for various workloads and applications built with ...

The concept of developers working together at long tables in physical spaces to code software was certainly the norm one year ago. The idea of remote development was more the exception than the rule. That was so 2019. “The idea of remote working was like an oddity,” said Jeffrey Hammond (pictured), vice president and principal ...