When the internet was taking off in the 1990s, finding a web page was an exercise in time and patience. Then search engines, such as Yahoo and Google, came along, and rapidly accessing information became infinitely easier after that. Companies such as Alation Inc. are seeking to revolutionize cataloging enterprise data in much the same ...

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan once sang. In the world of enterprise technology, the wind is blowing toward the network edge. Just in the past month, the two largest public cloud players – Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. – announced major new initiatives around edge ...

In less than a month, the California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect. The new law regulates the handling of customer information by businesses and imposes fines on those firms that fail to comply. California’s new law, which applies to any company with more than $25 million in annual gross revenue, has businesses scrambling to locate and ...

Last week’s gathering at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas featured plenty of news about new cloud products and services, but there was also music — lots and lots of music. In his three-hour keynote address last Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy was accompanied by a live band who played a ...

One of the many announcements to come from the AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas last week was the general availability of Outposts, the company’s fully managed service to extend cloud infrastructure into the data center. There are a number of partners working with Amazon Web Services Inc. to implement Outposts for enterprise customers, among ...

Cybercriminals are training their sights on developers, and this is raising alarm bells in the global security community. It’s a concern because one recent survey by GitLab Inc.found deficiencies in a developer’s ability to spot security holes for the code they create. “Unfortunately, what we expect is for the attackers to move to developers, move ...

The decision in October to award the $10-billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud modernization contract to Microsoft Corp. caught a number of industry observers by surprise. There could be more surprises to follow. At least one official within the Department of Defense is apparently questioning whether Microsoft has the ability to meet the ...

The cybersecurity industry is trying to gravitate from playing defense to a game plan that relies more on offense. The move has been dictated in large part by the use of AETs or advanced evasion techniques by cybercriminals to avoid detection in breaches and attacks. These sophisticated tools have prompted a similar response from the ...

Injury rates for players in the National Football League have been going up, and the organization has turned to tech for help in doing something about it. On Thursday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy on the re:Invent stage in Las Vegas to announce a partnership between ...

For followers of Amazon Web Services Inc., it was probably a good thing the public-cloud provider kept a running tally of the many announcements it made during its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this past week. The company conveniently posted every single news release from the past three days of keynotes and product launches. ...