As major companies have come to rely on the cloud to power business, the threats have increased accordingly. This has led security vendors such as CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. to adopt new approaches, including advanced artificial intelligence tools, to protect client workloads and data. “It starts with how dangerous it is in the cloud environment; what ...

In today’s multicloud world, an abstraction layer that resides above and across hyperscale infrastructure is becoming more clearly defined. This layer is the supercloud, and it represents a noteworthy evolution in the future direction of information technology. “It’s not just about being an IT person with a vendor,” said John Furrier (pictured, left), industry analyst ...

When IBM Corp. announced in a March blog post that it would make a number of product name changes to its portfolio of storage offerings, the move was more than just a rebranding exercise. The company was signaling its intent to align an extensive storage portfolio with the challenges of scale, performance and access that ...

The rise of supercloud, the emerging hybrid and multicloud abstraction layer that sits above and across multiple clouds and on-premises infrastructure, reflects the key dynamics that drive enterprise technology today. Two of the most significant of those drivers, generative artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, will be the central focus of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s next supercloud event. ...

The growth and success of computing has been a story about creating ways to make cross-platform connections. The rise of hypertext markup language, or HTML, as a common language for web page creation in the 1990s allowed a broad audience to fuel internet growth. Bluetooth emerged in the early 2000s as a short-range wireless standard ...

After three rounds of judging and evaluation of hundreds of submissions, a verdict is in. MaxaAI Inc. is the winner of the 2023 Snowflake Startup Challenge. The competition invited early-stage startups to build innovative applications and products in a quest for winning a share of up to $1 million in potential investments from Snowflake Inc. Maxa ...

In the weeks leading up to the Snowflake Summit in June, speculation focused on how Snowflake Inc. would define its vision for the new modern data stack, where applications were being constructed from a set of data elements that can be composed and launched at scale. Today’s applications are being driven by real-time data generated ...

Among the many announcements at June’s Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas was an expansion of Snowflake Inc.’s Snowpark developer framework. The latest enhancement, Snowpark Container Services, allows developers to build using any programming language, such as Python and deploy the results on a broad range of infrastructure choices. “This is a technology that really wasn’t ...

During the course of a Major League Baseball game, there will inevitably be a moment when a fielder examines the inside of his cap. He’s not wondering about the fit, rather he’s checking a sophisticated data report prepared by the team’s analytics staff. “If you actually watch a broadcast, you may see a player take ...

In the marketing industry, being able to collect first-party data, information gathered directly from a company’s own customers, has significant value. To help businesses capitalize on this rich inventory of customer insight, Snowplow Analytics Ltd. captures detailed customer journeys and equips businesses with first-party data insight into behaviors and product preferences. The open-source Snowplow RDB ...