Major cloud providers are beginning to understand the need for tools tailored to manage multicloud services, but it has taken time. Amid the multitude of product announcements made by Amazon Web Services Inc. at its re:Invent conference in December was a set of new capabilities for AWS Transit Gateway, a network hub that enables customers ...

The challenge confronting many information-technology network administrators these days is not connecting to multiple clouds; it’s managing the infrastructure demands once they’ve arrived there. Day one is easy. Day two? Not so much. “While you’re in the network part of the cloud, connectivity to the cloud is simple,” said Simon Richard (pictured, center), cloud networking ...

When security researcher Brian Krebs recently broke the news that a large number of French critical infrastructure firms had been hacked, he was also able to identify the source of the malware using a database provided by 4iQ Inc. The company maintains a service that indexes account information exposed in website data breaches. This kind of ...

The lessons of history can be instructive in providing comparisons with the latest trends in cloud computing, even if it means looking back in time hundreds of millions of years. Scientists believe that in the Cambrian period 542 million years ago, there was an explosion of life forms that signaled the rise of a wide variety ...

It would be a mistake to simply characterize LinkedIn Corp. as merely a job or networking website. With 660 million users, LinkedIn has the ability to leverage a tremendous amount of data in ways that go far beyond the latest job switch or promotion. The field of data science is helping it transform economic structures ...

Diversity applies to more than just the makeup of any given workforce. It’s become especially important in understanding how products will be received by customers. Intuit Inc. develops and sells accounting and tax preparation software, and its QuickBooks product serves more than 2.5 million users worldwide. With a customer base that large, being attuned to ...

It’s no secret that the representation of women in the technology workforce is lower than it should be. For predictive analytics professionals, a Burch Works study showed that women comprised 26% of the workforce in 2019, an increase over the previous year of only 2%. Microsoft Corp. is taking its own steps to change that. ...

Over his years in the tech industry, Joseph D’Angelo (pictured) thought he had seen it all. The chief architect of cloud resiliency solutions at Veritas Technologies LLC had just completed a large application migration and deployment project for a major state agency on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday morning, his phone was ringing off the ...

Updated: This article was updated to reflect current news about KubeCon Europe. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has two messages for the enterprise tech community: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, set to be held in in Amsterdam, will be postponed until summer, and attendees should be prepared for a few changes in the program tracks. “The ...

When it chose “Human Element” as the central theme of its annual U.S. conference, RSA Security LLC must have gazed deep into a crystal ball and foreseen the near-term future. RSA’s annual U.S. conference, held last week in San Francisco, opened with the deadly coronavirus spreading rapidly and affecting thousands of people around the globe. It ...