The gender gap in the technology industry is growing, and no one is quite sure what to do about it. The National Center for Education Statistics has reported that U.S. women earned only 18 percent of computer science degrees in 2015, and that number drops even lower when women of color are factored in. These ...

The move toward fast, serverless computing technology got a boost this month from Iguazio Systems Ltd. The data platform company (named from the Iguazu waterfalls in South America) announced the release of Nuclio, an open-source, multicloud serverless framework that claims faster-than-bare-metal speed. “We provide one platform, all the data services that Amazon has, or at least ...

Hybrid clouds, private clouds, public clouds, managed clouds. It’s a multicloud world now, and information technology customers are increasingly looking for new ways to manage and secure critical assets across multiple platforms. The problem is that many chief information officers either don’t know where all of the assets are stored or what the convoluted cloud ...

Founded two years ago to promote the adoption of containers, a virtual method for running distributed applications, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has since extended its support well beyond the Kubernetes container orchestration management system. The foundation now hosts 14 different open-source cloud-native projects and has attracted the biggest names in the industry, from Google LLC, IBM ...

In a confluence of fantasy with technology, premium program provider Home Box Office Inc. described this week how it used the Kubernetes container orchestration management system to solve scaling issues when millions logged on to watch Season 7 and the latest developments in the lands of Westeros and Essos on “Game of Thrones.” As loyal viewers of the popular show ...

As widespread as Kubernetes has become in container orchestration for enterprise data management technology, its success is also heavily dependent on the ability to manage complexity and raise the level of innovation to meet networking needs. The community of engineers surrounding Kubernetes has focused on building new developer tools to address pain points in information technology ...

As the de facto standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes is expected to benefit from growing adoption by companies, with the application container market rising to a projected $2.7 billion by 2020. The open-source technology created by Google has become enormously popular, yet there are still important questions surrounding how it will become effectively monetized. “For the ...

The world’s finest wines often take years to age. Well-made furniture is usually assembled over many months in the workshop of highly skilled artisans. Yet when it comes to running enterprise software applications, the mode is usually, “Let’s get it out by Friday, but we have to figure out the infrastructure first.” The information technology fire ...

Among the many things that information technology customers have on their holiday wishlists this season, one likely top request is hybrid-cloud consistency. They want the same software to manage public cloud and on-premises data centers and remove infrastructure management headaches. Last month, the partnership of VMware Cloud and Amazon Web Services Inc. received another boost ...

In an episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” this year, two of the characters build a startup company that offers image recognition technology to distinguish what is truly a hot dog and what is not. Clips of the segment spread like wildfire around Silicon Valley, and several enterprising developers actually built real hot dog recognition apps. ...