It means “superior force” in French, but for many businesses “force majeure” is a contractual clause that relieves parties from meeting agreed terms when events, such as the spread of coronavirus, reach epidemic proportions. The clause has become significant in recent days as major industry gatherings and music festivals must handle the reality that the ...

Digital communication as a productive medium is about to get the ultimate test. As the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, spreads around the globe, numerous large events and industry gatherings are being cancelled. Companies and schools are sending employees and students home, creating a dynamic where online communications will become more relied upon than ever ...

Like the major cloud platform providers, HYCU Inc. has shaped its enterprise strategy around keeping a foot in both the on-premises world and the cloud-based space. That strategy gained additional clarity recently with the announcement that HYCU would now support Microsoft Azure with its backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery services for the public cloud provider. ...

Soaring above the clouds means understanding how to fly, and one enterprise tech company has set out to train a squadron of cloud networking aces. Aviatrix Systems Inc. has launched a program to certify technical professionals and cloud practitioners in multicloud networking and security. The Aviatrix Certified Engineer, or ACE, program focuses on basic networking ...

Migration to a multicloud model starts out easy and can get rapidly harder as enterprises seek to optimize the new computing model. That’s just one of the messages that enterprise consultants, such as DXC Technology Co., have for clients. In November, DXC launched a multicloud automation, orchestration and governance solution for managed services delivery in ...

Not all major cloud providers are the same, and this simple realization can impact how network architects implement multicloud solutions. For a business such as Ellie Mae Inc., which processes 35% of mortgage applications in the United States, the nuances of network architecture can become especially important. Ellie Mae started out focused on one cloud, ...

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 ...