Mignona Coté is on a quest to simplify her complicated profession. NetApp Inc.’s chief security officer (pictured) has written about streamlining data protection and simplifying security processes for cloud architectures. Her approach challenges the security industry to assess the true effectiveness of various practices and create a more secure cloud ecosystem as the technologies surrounding it become ...

Splunk Inc. built its platform around enterprise resilience and keeping data secure. Its approach provides a realistic view of vulnerabilities, starting with access management. “People don’t hack the cloud; they hack the user,” said Ryan Kovar (pictured), distinguished security strategist and leader of SURGe at Splunk. “The user is what allows them to have credentials, ...

Fixing the fundamental security flaws inherent in systems and networks will rely significantly on ensuring implementation of secure, bug-free code. This is the basic premise behind Snyk Ltd. and its developer security platform. The company provides solutions to secure proprietary code, open-source dependencies, container images and cloud infrastructure from a single unified platform. Rather than creating ...

Over a lengthy career spanning high-level executive positions at Oracle Corp., MacAfee Corp., MobileIron Inc. and now VMware Inc., Vittorio Viarengo has observed the ebb and flow of technology trends. VMware Inc.’s vice president of Cross-Cloud Services now finds himself in a position to see the approaching next wave of innovation, a viewpoint that is very ...

During Doug Merritt’s six-year tenure as the chief executive officer and president of Splunk Inc., he led significant shifts in the company’s journey to build a major platform for enterprise resilience. Today, as the newly appointed CEO of the cloud-native networking company Aviatrix Inc., Merritt (pictured) is once again facing significant changes in the enterprise ...

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 ...