Moore’s Law, the decades-old observation that the number of transistors in a microchip will double every two years, may be finally slowing down according to a number of industry leaders. Yet, the principle of exponential growth is still alive and well when it comes to enterprise data. In a time when the explosion of data ...

Data protection can be a great idea in concept, until it doesn’t work. When crippling ransomware attacks impacted 23 cities in Texas near the end of this summer, public libraries checked out books by writing the names of borrowers on sheets of paper and police issued manually generated tickets by hand. And the towns in ...

Four billion of anything is a lot to imagine. When it involves 4 billion Kubernetes instances, each containing multiple data points on spin-up, operation, and spin-down, the scale becomes truly hard to imagine. That’s how many Kubernetes instances Google LLC launches every week just for its own use. “If you think of Google launching 4 ...

On Wednesday, Sumo Logic Inc. made a series of announcements designed to showcase what it calls the “Intelligence Economy.” The news included a continuous intelligence solution for Kubernetes, new benchmarking capabilities for AWS GuardDuty, expanded multicloud support for Google Cloud, and the introduction of a credit-based licensing model for customers. The announcements were in keeping ...

The road to the hybrid cloud is anything but straight for many enterprise firms. Twists, turns and forks in the road can range from security and disaster recovery to automated services and workload management. The hybrid cloud evolution has also translated into a solid business opportunity for firms such as GreenPages Technology Solutions, a systems ...

Competition in the cloud data warehouse space is heating up, and one of the most significant companies to emerge in the space is Snowflake Inc. That’s one of several conclusions from spending data recently provided to SiliconANGLE by Enterprise Technology Research Inc. ETR’s survey of information-technology professionals found that Snowflake’s data warehouse approach, which separates ...

As enterprises adopt hybrid computing cloud models, which include public and private clouds, flexible software licensing becomes even more important. This means some companies that were previously solely in the hardware space must either pivot quickly or miss out on a major market opportunity. This was the challenge that confronted Nutanix Inc. as it has transitioned ...

Sometimes speed wins. Other times, it kills. Speed to market, first-mover advantage, rapid deployment and quantum moves forward are generally considered to be positive attributes in the tech world. Yet is it also possible that enterprise tech, which has suddenly become a pretty hot sector, currently is enjoying too much of a good thing? Speed ...

Men are dying in startling numbers, and growing a mustache just might help. Three major causes — prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide — account for why men are dying, on average, six years earlier than women. Forty-five men die of prostate cancer every hour, and 60 males will die from suicide in the same ...

As Cisco Systems Inc. talks with its customers, it is getting a clear picture of information-technology preferences and an overwhelming sentiment in favor of a networking environment that mixes cloud computing with on-premises operations. One Cisco executive recently noted in an interview that 90% of its customers intended to deploy a multicloud structure while keeping ...