It is easy to take for granted, but life would be vastly different without global reliance on space-based technology. Everything from GPS to weather tracking and a significant amount of web-based communications depends heavily on a complicated network of satellites orbiting Earth. Any disruption in this critical technology could have broad global implications, and this ...

During a time when it seems as though the entire planet has “gone digital,” the role of PagerDuty Inc. has come into sharper focus as a key player in keeping the critical work of IT organizations up and running. Mindful of enterprise and consumer need at such an important time, the company has chosen this ...

The global pandemic has moved entire industries online, along with many consumers. Will it remain this way forever? That was one of the questions that PagerDuty Inc. sought to clarify when it commissioned a global study earlier this year. Results from the survey are in, and they indicate that at least 40% of respondents believe demand ...

The concept of digital operations, or DigitalOps, is very much on the minds of information technology organizations today. The global pandemic has placed greater pressure on IT not only to transform entire companies into fully digital platforms but to keep them operationally efficient as well. Research from McKinsey & Company has showed that organizations successfully ...

There is a simple reason why companies will spend a projected $2.4 trillion globally on research and development in 2020: It gets results. In the technology world, the transistor, hard drive and graphical user interface all sprang from research labs, to name just a few key innovations. Now, Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Ltd. is seeking ...

A disruption in daily operations is the last thing a business needs today — running a company during the COVID-19 era is chaotic enough. Yet a recent study has found that information technology outages, downtime and unplanned work continue to cost enterprises both time and money. This is one reason the cloud-based IT monitoring service ...

Like a gold miner panning for riches in a fast-flowing stream filled with loose rocks and dirt, the process of data discovery is all about being able to sift through a confusing mess and extract items of real value. That takes time and patience, two quantities in short supply for harried chief information and chief ...

The purchase of data services platform Portworx Inc. by Pure Storage Inc. for $370 million on Wednesday represents an important move into the developer operations space for Pure. On the surface, the combination of the two firms can be viewed as a blending of Pure Storage’s expertise in data storage services with Portworx’s Kubernetes Data Services ...

With the rising data volumes continuing across the enterprise comes the necessity for automated data management tools. Since its founding in 2014, Io-Tahoe LLC has emerged amongst the many players helping companies manage and gain insights from the ever-expanding stores of information, primarily through the use of machine-learning algorithms to increase accuracy and speed in ...

It’s a new chapter for Mirantis Inc. as it unveils Docker Enterprise Container Cloud at its Launchpad 2020 virtual event on Wednesday, Sept. 16. This step in its journey underlines the open cloud computing company’s commitment to Docker, Kubernetes and the developer community. “Every word in the product name is important,” said Dave Van Everen, ...