Seventy-four years after the fictionalized film featuring the actor Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Smith really did go to Washington. In 2013, Microsoft Corp. president Brad Smith (pictured) found himself sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House conversing with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, members of the Cabinet and a number of technology leaders. The ...

One hundred Webster dictionaries would fill a gigabyte of data and 100,000 would fill a terabyte. Samsung SmartThings, the electronics giant’s smart home platform, generates 150 terabytes of “interesting” data every day, according to SmartThings’ chief technology officer. And that’s a significant increase from the previous year, which offers a singular hint at where the data ...

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 ...