In the world of plastic money, all it takes these days is a valid credit card to spin up a virtual machine in the cloud. But as engineers move quickly to deliver more features and power the latest applications, the cost of spinning up can rapidly spin out of control. It’s a familiar problem for ...

There is a saying in the sports world about athletes that the best ability is availability, always being able to play. The same case can be made in today’s multicloud world about data and its availability for the enterprise. Recent surveys of chief information officers and other enterprise information technology executives underscore this point. Deloitte’s ...

Businesses of all sizes are sorting through the maze of cloud and software options available in the market today. Single cloud or multicloud? Proprietary software or open source? Those and other prime topics in enterprise computing got the full treatment recently in a special panel discussion on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio in Palo Alto, ...

Is network security an oxymoron? Like jumbo shrimp and awfully good, network security seems ripe for inclusion in the roll call of combined contradictory words, especially when considering the steady parade of high-profile breaches and cyberattacks. In the past month alone, a Toyota division’s computers were knocked out by an attack in Australia, Microsoft Corp. ...

With more than 1.5 billion smartphones sold on an annual basis and the number of users approaching 2.5 billion this year, a case could easily be made that the smartphone model has some appeal. So, why not apply the same principles of a cross-platform interface, machine-learning integration, and app marketplace found in the smartphone to solve ...

Analysts are paid to have opinions, and Ray Wang (pictured), founder, chairman and principal analyst of Constellation Research Inc., doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to assessing the state of the enterprise tech world today. Take IBM Corp.’s blockbuster acquisition of Red Hat Inc. in October. The computing giant paid $34 billion to acquire ...

In a simpler information technology world, operations were confined to what lay inside the four walls of a data center. Instances, servers and middleware all hummed along in a smaller, easier-to-manage environment. Those days are long gone. “Now I’ve got my applications running in Salesforce.com offering software as a service. I’ve got three or four ...

In the corporate jungle, survival means getting an edge on the competition. For an analog business, numerous factors, such as proximity, brand and price, can keep it viable. But the rules of the game are different in the digital world where a form of Darwinism, the process of natural selection favoring the survival of some species ...

What happens when customers leave and a business has no idea why? That was the central question for Claro Colombia, the country’s largest mobile carrier, when it was confronted with the need to address customer churn. The answer came from working jointly with the Data Science Elite Team at IBM Corp. By gathering a massive ...

When IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty declared in her keynote address at last week’s Think conference that “there can’t be AI without IA,” she was making a crucial point regarding her company’s strategy. Before becoming distracted by the allure of artificial intelligence and the innovation it can bring, IBM intends to focus on the ...