When a company wants to move beyond single-digit share of the public cloud infrastructure market and gain a significant presence in an industry vertical where less than 10% of institutions primarily deploy workloads in the public cloud, it takes a game plan and a number of small steps. IBM recently announced one of those important steps ...

In his position as co-chief executive officer of MemSQL Inc., Raj Verma (pictured), has plenty of conversations every week with top executives across a wide range of industries. The topics are varied, but inevitably one question usually gets asked. “One of the things that most CEOs and CIOs ask for is: ‘Raj, how can I ...

When a major storm threatens industrial facilities, 100 minutes is a lot of time. That’s the average period it takes to process available global data to make weather predictions, so Maxar Technologies Inc. embarked on a project to speed that up. Working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Amazon Web Services Inc., Maxar developed ...

When it comes to managing workloads and applications in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix Inc. has borrowed a slogan popularized by one well-known athletic brand: Just do it. Nutanix announced an extension of its Clusters scale-out hyperconverged storage offering that will now be available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform and provide customers with a ...

One year after 20,000 cybersecurity professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA, no one traveled to the city this time, convention center hallways were dark and the world felt more perilous than ever before. Reflecting on a dystopian future described in a subgenre of science fiction known as “cyberpunk” in the 1980s, a somber ...

With the shift by higher education to online learning during the global pandemic, an attack by malicious hackers has become a real risk. But what if one attack against a university came from another school? This unusual situation was discovered recently by NetScout Systems Inc., which helped a major unnamed university thwart an attack against ...

In the information-technology world, there are plenty of projects with daily, weekly or even monthly deadlines. There are not many where the end product must be designed and executed once every 10 years. Yet, that is exactly what is required for the U.S. to count its residents as defined by the Constitution, a process known ...

Over 6,500 government agencies now use cloud solutions provided by Amazon Web Services Inc., and one of the users of AWS GovCloud is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The law enforcement agency had been saddled with an aging information-technology infrastructure, and the FBI’s computer operations leadership became accustomed to hearing complaints from employees about system performance. ...

When it became apparent that U.S. firms would need financial help during the pandemic, Congress approved $349 billion in emergency small-business funding for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. It fell to the Small Business Association to administer those loans, and the agency quickly turned to Amazon Web Services Inc. and third-party reseller Four Points ...

Please sign-in to your video chat-enabled, cloud-based virtual platform. The Municipal Court of the City of Alvin, Texas, is now in session. While this might sound like a scenario from a work of science fiction, it is actually happening for defendants with business before a judge in Alvin, as well as in 60 courts throughout ...