This year has been a busy one in the relationship between Amazon Web Services Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. First there was the move of Oath Inc., the Verizon subsidiary formed from the purchase of AOL and Yahoo, to the AWS Cloud. That was swiftly followed a few weeks later by the news that Verizon ...

Walk into a bank branch today and the scene is usually a row of teller windows flanked by employees in business attire having hushed conversations in nearby cubicles. Yet, Capital One Financial Corp. is working to change that image by opening a string of branches in major U.S. cities where customers are more likely to ...

For many enterprises, cloud computing adoption is only a first step. The more difficult challenge comes in leveraging cloud technology to drive sustained business value and growth. With this in mind, Accenture LLP and Amazon Web Services Inc. launched the Accenture AWS Business Group, or AABG, in 2015 to help clients leverage resources in both ...

Clutching his fishing pole, the six-year-old boy was swept along the rapids of a raging West Virginia river. Only fate and the calming words of his own father nearby would coalesce to save Cisco Systems Inc.’s future leader. It was a near-death experience that John Chambers (pictured) would not soon forget. A perilous day on the ...

Data by itself is powerful, but data combined with other data can have even greater impact. Data’s combined power was highlighted this year through a collaborative effort spearheaded by KDDI Corp., one of Japan’s largest mobile carriers, Toyota Motor Corp., and Accenture PLC, as the three firms teamed up to make the lives of taxi ...

While many consider cloud computing to be fairly secure, anything is hackable. And McAfee LLC has seen more than its share of vulnerabilities, both on-premises and in the cloud. So the company recently announced at AWS re:Invent that it would support Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Security Hub in the interest of managing multiple data points and dashboards. ...

While many enterprise organizations have enthusiastically embraced the migration of databases from on-premises data centers to the cloud, there are still trade-offs. One of these has been the loss of security monitoring tools, and it is a situation that McAfee LLC is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. to fix. “Whenever you start migrating databases ...

In high-pressured developer operations environments, corporate developers are like magicians performing a multiple-plate spinning trick. As they spin up containers, they demand full visibility into operations at all times and need to know quickly when a “plate” starts to wobble. This is why Wavefront, a real-time monitoring and streaming analytics platform acquired last year by ...

In today’s complicated landscape for information technology, having a cross-platform solution that can perform critical data protection and recovery functions for enterprise data centers and hybrid clouds is a valuable tool. Veritas Technologies LLC’s NetBackup solution provides that support for the enterprise, and the product recently played an important role in an Amazon Web Services Inc. ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s servers and systems just got smarter. The company just announced that its cloud-based artificial intelligence management tool — InfoSight — would add machine learning capabilities that include cross-stack recommendations for Nimble Storage, an AI-driven resource planner to optimize workload placement and performance insights for HPE 3PAR’s systems and software for data storage. “This isn’t AI ...