After the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, the pioneering device collected images and other data concerning astronomical events for its first 18 years, a total of 120 terabytes of information. That’s how much data Actifio Inc. manages for one customer — Sentry Data Systems Inc. — as part of a very timely cause. ...

Google LLC has a history of generating new products from the tools it uses to run a vast global information-technology network. Several of its more recent new cloud product and service releases appear to have been created with the idea that its customers will take full advantage of the company’s sizable infrastructure. Google Cloud VMware ...

When the cloud native company Snowflake Inc. reportedly filed for an initial public offering in June, the news turned a spotlight on the enterprise data warehouse market. It also signaled a shift in the competitive landscape where legacy data warehouse players, such as Teradata Inc. and Oracle Corp., would be challenged by modern relational database ...

Application modernization can mean different things for many cloud users. Google LLC has chosen to define it based on its full offering of cloud tools and services for developers, as part of a series of announcements being made this week. In particular, the cloud provider today announced the launch of its Google Cloud Application Modernization ...

There are television shows and Broadway productions that haven’t lasted as long as this year’s Google Cloud Next. Now seven weeks into its nine-week run, Google Cloud’s signature event was extended from its previous three-day in-person gathering to a series of weekly virtual broadcasts out of necessity because of the global pandemic. Beginning in July, ...

The field of natural language processing is gradually evolving, and one startup is channeling its ability to scan unstructured information about companies and business relationships and extract meaningful insight. This can be especially helpful to sales teams, as Ogmagod Inc. is discovering in the rollout of its data-processing solution. “What we do is help salespeople ...

As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation marks its fifth year of operation, the group’s growing range of projects highlights an important milestone for open-source computing. With continued expansion of the cloud native community and more companies, including many of the world’s largest enterprises, becoming involved, open source is beginning to define its own value. “It ...

Banks demand security and compliance across mission-critical environments, and one of the largest financial institutions in the world relies on Red Hat Inc. and OpenShift to deploy data-intensive workloads using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Royal Bank of Canada and its 86,000 employees rely on Red Hat’s OpenShift for its container orchestration system to ...

While microservices have become standard for architecting software applications, there remains a nagging problem for developers: how to monitor and observe issues within an application through hundreds or thousands of microservices running across numerous hosts. Profiling and analyzing application code using specialized tools for developers, a practice known as tracing, generally works well in a ...

When a project or program grows 50%, that’s generally considered reasonable progress. 100%? Outstanding. 500%? Amazing. 1,000%? Over the top. Then there is growth of 2,100%, which is the approximate percentage reported by TechRepublic for the share of Kubernetes jobs per million and Kubernetes job searches between 2015 and 2019. And that was before a ...