The next in a series of year-long Summit events by Amazon Web Services Inc. will take place on July 12 in New York City. The theme is “Scale … anything,” and AWS has devoted a great deal of its vast resources to support this proposition. Weather prediction provides one example. As the largest private weather ...

Red Hat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Paul Cormier recently offered two key points at the start of the company’s Summit in May: Companies will have to adopt a hybrid model whether desired or not, and open-source code is driving the future of information technology. Cormier’s post captured the essence of Red Hat’s innovation game plan. As he ...

During this week’s HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. was recognized as HPE’s 2022 Global Technology Partner of the Year. It was a testament to more than 20 years of a collaboration that spanned numerous digital transformations and has driven a new era of multicloud services. “Our job is to bridge the cloud locations ...

The enterprise computing world is undergoing a renaissance in systems design. The cloud has changed the way that many organizations think about hardware based on a fundamental realization that processing power alone won’t meet performance requirements. While chipmakers have made strides in processing, data stores have simply become too large. This has compelled the information ...

For Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Officer Antonio Neri, the HPE Discover gathering in Las Vegas this week was an opportunity for celebration. After making a commitment in 2019 to deliver HPE’s entire portfolio as-a-service by the end of this year, Neri (pictured) used his Tuesday keynote to declare victory. “It’s a proud moment, ...

Kubernetes is eight years old going on 18. The container orchestration tool, which was introduced to the world in June 2014, has become mature well beyond its age, having ushered in a new era for software deployment and management. Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation reported that 96% of global organizations are either ...

The short answer to the question of whether hardware matters is “yes.” But the value flow for hardware is changing as tech innovation migrates to alternative chip platforms designed for modern workloads. Network interface cards, accelerators and storage controllers are becoming more advanced and increasingly important in the enterprise. What does this mean for customers, ...

Netflix Inc., the largest streaming service in the world, offers 6,000 titles in its U.S. library of content. That may seem like a bewildering amount to choose from, until one considers the plight of enterprise marketers who must select from over 8,000 vendors. This comparison provides a small glimpse into the challenges facing the marketing ...

Leading up to the start of Red Hat Summit in early May, the major news was expected to be the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 9 after a three-year wait. But that script changed when Red Hat Inc. announced its In-Vehicle Operating System in partnership with General Motors Co. during the Boston event. The ...

Snowflake Inc. provided a range of announcements during its Summit gathering in Las Vegas last week, from a new framework for developers to build and monetize applications to Unistore, a workload approach that combines transactional and analytic data on a single platform. Yet one analyst viewed Snowflake’s strategy to leverage new technologies on top of the ...