Whether it’s in response to concerns from large enterprise customers or from their own global threat intelligence, security is very much on the minds of top executives for the leading cloud providers these days. At the Amazon Web Services Summit in March, Amazon.com Inc Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels devoted a significant amount of time in his ...

Businesses with big ambitions had better be able to fund them. Google Cloud’s top executive made it a point today to ensure there would not be any doubts about the level of his company’s commitment as a major cloud provider. Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian opened his keynote remarks at the company’s Cloud Next conference in ...

Before software is going to eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously declared, video is going to eat the Internet. A report from Cisco Systems Inc., released in February, showed that IP video traffic would comprise 82% of the Internet by 2022. The bottom line is that streaming of live events and a tidal wave ...

Google LLC rebranded its Cloud Services Platform today under the name of Anthos, the Greek term for “flowers.” Anthos will have general availability on 30 launch partners, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Dell EMC, according to Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, raising hopes that the hybrid platform will blossom into a multicloud engine that can drive ...

There is a school of thought among some analysts in the enterprise world that edge computing will eat the cloud. This notion was further reinforced during the keynote discussion by several executives at Fortinet Inc. on the opening day of the Fortinet Accelerate conference in Orlando, Florida. Yet, other analysts have a slightly different view ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald once memorably wrote that there are “no second acts in American lives.” We are about to find out if there are second acts for cloud computing providers. When the curtain goes up for Google Cloud Next ’19 this morning in San Francisco, two questions will be foremost on the minds of attendees: What ...

The time may finally have arrived when CIO no longer means “career is over.” As technology drives nearly every business imaginable today, the role of the chief information officer in managing enterprise information technology is not only becoming more important, it is beginning to be viewed as a key stepping stone to top corporate leadership. ...

What does $1.7 billion buy today? For Adobe Inc., the answer is a new cloud service based on an online retail system that processed $155 billion in annual sales one year ago. On the surface, that sounds like a pretty good deal. The new service was announced last month by Adobe as part of its ...

Tickets as we used to know them are a relic of the past. From concerts to sporting events to airline flights, electronic ticketing is largely the norm as paper tickets steadily disappear. When a user has to “open a ticket” with an information technology service desk, the work order is usually machine driven anyway. Do ...

Chris Yeh (pictured) graduated from Stanford University at the age of 19, published a popular book called “Blitzscaling,” and has built a number of internet businesses since 1995. But does he know how to answer 12 tough questions perfectly in five minutes while strapped to a robot-controlled chair swinging through the caverns of a dark ...