It is no coincidence that the rise of Kubernetes paralleled the growth of the cloud. The container orchestration tool has reached a point in its maturity where major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. view the technology as a central gateway into a public cloud platform. “It’s gone to a level of maturity ...

Which companies are the most active buyers of renewable energy? The answer might be a surprise, since these major firms are also some of the biggest energy users in the world. Renewable energy, often referred to as clean energy, comes from a variety of natural sources, such as solar, geothermal, wind and hydropower, and major ...

A simmering dispute between the co-founder of Silicon Valley startup Cloudbrink Inc. and the executive brought in to run the company became public knowledge on Wednesday with the filing of a lawsuit. In a complaint filed in Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California, Subbu Ponnuswamy, co-founder and former chief technology officer of Cloudbrink and ...

VMware Inc. is boosting support for one of the latest bare-metal instances on the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform. On Tuesday, VMware unveiled an enhanced version of VMware Cloud on AWS that will facilitate the running of specific instances on the AWS cloud to realize economies of scale and provide more options for additional storage. ...

Werner Vogels, vice president and chief technology officer at Amazon.com Inc., has a message for business: It’s time to become frugal architects when it comes to managing cloud costs. Drawing from his nearly 20 years of experience in building the massive cloud platform that runs the largest online retail business in U.S., Vogels (pictured) used ...

After outlining its parameters for the “Generative AI stack” on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled key services and tools to realize that vision at the company’s re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas. In his keynote remarks to announce the latest set of offerings, Swami Sivasubramanian (pictured), vice president of data and AI at AWS, ...

The founders of Aiven built their expertise by managing critical data infrastructure for major businesses, such as Nokia Corp. and F-Secure Inc., and they noticed that solutions had either become proprietary or challenging to implement and achieve meaningful business results. Instead, they built their new company around an open-source data cloud that organizations could use to ...

When the cloud community gathered in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent one year ago, generative artificial intelligence was scarcely mentioned. Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. made a series of announcements during its annual conference that underscored how the technology has moved to the top of the cloud giant’s agenda. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled what ...

While the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz may be best known as an investor in major successes such as Slack, Airbnb and Instacart, its very first investment turned out fairly well too. That would be Apptio Inc., provider of hybrid business management software for the IT industry, which was acquired by IBM Corp. earlier this ...

There was once a time when the number of vendors in the IT conversation was largely confined to how many were represented within the four walls of a data center. Times have changed. With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, the number of vendors available to supply products and services is now seemingly infinite. Software-as-a-service ...