In his keynote presentation at AWS re:Invent last week, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels spoke of how the next generation of cloud architecture needs to be event-driven. This will be an important theme as AWS moves forward, according to one industry analyst. “It’s important to educate about event-based architecture,” said Holger Mueller (pictured), vice president and ...

It may have been around since Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, but one of the longest-tenured database companies in the world is determined to demonstrate its continued relevance in the IT community. Oracle Corp. unveiled its first relational database written in assembly language and running on 128K of memory in 1978. Now, after ...

In its forecast for what to expect in the cloud industry during 2022, SiliconANGLE Media predicted that Amazon Web Services Inc. was unlikely to enter the software-as-a-service business and offer applications. Based on news from the recently concluded AWS re:Invent conference, that prediction turned out to be mostly true — though its established Amazon Connect ...

During AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week, CEO Adam Selipsky noted that out of 1,200 global unicorns, 83% of privately held startup companies with valuations over $1 billion run on his company’s platform. Statistics such as these point to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s interest in attracting and nurturing startup businesses to build on its ...

The scale and influence of a company such as Amazon Web Services Inc. highlight the value that can accrue when a business offers a unique set of services in high demand: The major cloud provider has grown because its customers can’t grow without it. “It is really adapt or die,” said cloud researcher and consultant ...

One of the messages to emerge during the AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas this week is that Amazon is declaring war on the need to extract, transfer and load data. The ETL process has been a sore point within information technology organizations because of the time and expense necessary to extract and move information ...

The annual AWS re:Invent keynote from Amazon.com Inc. Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels has traditionally covered a significant amount of scientific and technical ground, and today’s presentation before a packed house in Las Vegas was no exception. Interspersed among several new announcements from AWS, Vogels weighed in on Amazon’s earliest systems design principles, the value ...

In February, Pure Storage Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. announced a three-year strategic investment to help customers manage their cloud-based software container environments. The partnership underscored the central role that software and cloud services will play in a future growth scenario for Pure Storage and its Cloud Block Store offering, which brings primary storage ...

The growth of major cloud providers in size and influence has had a ripple effect on the technology industry. A prime example of this can be seen in databases. An endorsement from a major cloud provider can ensure that a particular database gains significant inroads into the enterprise IT fabric with long-term benefit. “If you ...

When Congress declared in 2004 that October would be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it likely could not have anticipated the global threat landscape online users face today. A new study released in October by cybersecurity firm Surfshark Inc. reported that there were 108 million accounts breached worldwide in the third quarter of 2022 alone, a 70% ...