Learn by doing. That’s the underlying philosophy behind a rapid use-case prototyping training model designed by NorthBay Solutions LLC, an Amazon Web Services Public Sector partner. NorthBay’s AWS-trained staff works side-by-side in virtual simultaneous rooms to help information technology customers quickly come up to speed on cloud-based areas, such as database migration, application modernization, machine learning ...

When COVID-19 began shutting down schools across the country earlier this year, the University of Maryland Baltimore County had a big problem on its hands. There were many of its 14,000 students who could no longer attend learning sessions in on-campus physical labs. The school turned to eLumin LLC, a provider of cloud-based technology solutions ...

Themes of innovation and customer obsession were especially relevant when Amazon Web Services Inc. announced its 2020 AWS Public Sector Partners Awards. The global pandemic lent particular importance to many of the innovative solutions that were recently recognized by AWS on behalf of public sector customers. “During COVID, data became so essential,” said Sandy Carter (pictured), vice ...

The tech world moves fast, but when it comes to female representation at senior levels, it doesn’t move fast enough. Representation of female board members among companies with $100 billion or more in market capitalization is currently 23%. That drops to 9% for private companies or firms up to $500 million in market cap, and ...

A company’s assets, liabilities and shareholder value are reported on the balance sheet. What about the value of its data? As data volume grows along with its importance to enterprises, a case could be made that it should be treated as an asset and its value reported accordingly. Nothing could be more wrong, according to ...

One company that supports query and analysis of fast-moving enterprise data is growing fast as well. After expanding its business 200% in 2018, MemSQL Inc. grew an additional 75% in 2019 and just raised $50 million in debt facility to capitalize its operations for the next several years. MemSQL’s relational real-time database analyzes data across ...

In the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” an aggrieved King George III of Great Britain implores rebellious American colonialists to stop fighting his rule by singing: “Oceans rise, empires fall, we have seen each other through it all.” History has a way of coming back around again. In mid-July, a major part of Europe declared that ...

Companies are feeling the heat when it comes to mass data fragmentation as copies are multiplying, silos are growing, and data is increasingly spread across multiple locations, both on-premises and in the public cloud. A survey of information-technology decision makers conducted by Cohesity Inc. found that 91% of respondents said that solving mass data fragmentation ...

Like an apple falling from a tree, data may have gravity, but its journey from creation to consumption to archive is hardly a straight, uninterrupted path. In reality, the data lifecycle is a sequence of stages that are managed using different tools and technologies. The process can be complex and prone to problems, especially as data ...

When Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled its autonomous infrastructure with Dell EMC PowerOne in November, the company’s release described a technology that sounded much like that of an autonomous car. As with drivers of self-driving vehicles, system administrators need to only tell PowerOne the destination. Dell’s technology would calculate the best way to do everything else and ...