When computers and nuclear equipment were attacked at a facility in Iran by the infamous Stuxnet worm in 2010, security researchers were amazed at the malware’s ability to bypass checks that required valid digital signatures. These software signatures are important because they are designed to block installation of malicious code. However, researchers divulged last week ...

Silicon Valley lore often focuses on the founders of major companies who later went on to become household names worldwide. Think Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple Computer Inc., Larry Ellison at Oracle Corp., or Bill Hewlett and David Packard at Hewlett-Packard Co. But many of the technology industry’s untold stories involve the people ...

If the race for dominance in the cloud service provider market was a marathon road race, the current leaders of the running pack would be Amazon Web Services Inc. with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform striving to catch up. But industry observers believe the “race” as it stands today is only in the first ...

The vocabulary required to manage the flow of enterprise data is beginning to change again. It started with bytes and worked its way up the scale through kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes. Then it progressed to terabytes and petabytes. Now, when top executives of data integration and analytics companies talk about scale, the conversation often turns ...

There may be nothing more terrifying in the enterprise computing world than being unable to look inside a system and see what’s happening. Blind faith is a bad idea and a sure ticket to disaster. In the serverless computing world, apps are hard to debug because they are constructed by deploying functions to cloud providers ...

When Sam Kroonenburg (pictured) and his brother were looking to build an online school that would teach cloud computing, there were platforms for hosting teaching content, but they took a hefty cut out of what could well be meager profits. So Kroonenburg cancelled a family vacation, locked himself in a relative’s home for four weeks, ...

In the 1980s, a popular TV personality named Warner Wolf made a national name for himself during nightly sportscasts by referencing the outcome of a game and then quickly declaring “let’s go to the videotape” to show the audience proof of what he had just described. Much as Wolf was a storyteller who used video ...

In the relatively short space of 18 years, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has grown from 18 people led by former English teacher Jack Ma to an ecommerce powerhouse with more than 50,000 employees and annual revenue of $23 billion. But it was no easy path, as Ma’s first two web-based businesses failed before he hit on the ...

When Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced this month that it would commit $15 billion to increase its research and development initiatives between now and 2020, one of the sidebars to that news was the expansion of its presence in the U.S., specifically Silicon Valley. With data centers and small offices already established in the greater Bay Area, Alibaba ...

Much as a school views its educational mission from the perspective of shaping young minds, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sees its role in the computing universe as that of building functioning, thinking machines. Alibaba Cloud has developed a set of machine learning-fueled platforms, such as ET City Brain and ET Industrial Brain, to solve many ...