The upcoming Snowflake Summit event in Las Vegas offers an opportunity to assess the current state of several important trends in the cloud ecosystem. These include the need for cloud-native companies to address the amount of data that continues to live on-premises, a drive by Snowflake and others in the warehousing space to make inroads ...

When Russian troops began their invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, it focused the world’s attention on what role cybersecurity would play in the war. Nearly four months later, a storyline of cyber conflict is beginning to emerge, and it may affect the security industry for years to come. The Russia-Ukraine war was a prime ...

Securing the software supply chain has become akin to eating better, exercising regularly and getting more rest. Everyone knows that it’s the right thing to do, but the execution often leaves much to be desired. A number of industry leaders have stepped forward in recent weeks to add a note of urgency to the software ...

Just as there are credit scores, restaurant scores and movie scores, one startup tech company wants to implement a quality score for business. How does today’s modern business know when it has a quality problem with users? There are so many places where user feedback is available now, that it’s become more difficult to capture ...

Startup companies are founded for many different reasons, but Heap Inc. may be the first one to become reality because of too much pizza. Matin Movassate, Heap’s founder and chairman, previously worked as a product manager for Facebook. He wanted to measure what users were doing with the product he was responsible for, but he ...

The challenge confronting an enterprise marketer today is one of scale. Nearly every business is a digital business that throws off a lot of data, and turning that into meaningful insight to bring the customer closer is key. One company that is in the business of increasing the frequency of customer engagement with the brand ...

MongoDB Inc. prides itself on being a developer-friendly platform. At its annual conference in New York this week, the company announced further capabilities designed to appeal to its core constituency. MongoDB unveiled a series of updates for its database, which included key tools for application development and synching data from the edge. “Our whole business ...

If there has been a slowdown in the rush to build new technologies for the Kubernetes and cloud-native world, there wasn’t any sign of it in Valencia, Spain, during the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event. The show was a sellout this year, with more than 7,500 attendees. Perhaps even more significant was that 65% of ...

In a world beset by scams and hackers, trust and authenticity seem to be in short supply. Sendbird Inc., a conversations platform for mobile applications, intends to change that. The company’s mission is to build reliable conversations in a digital world, and it uses an in-app messaging platform to connect doctors and patients in virtual ...

With the dawn of the personal computer age and global use of the internet, marketers restructured consumer outreach and built tools for the PC platform. In today’s environment, marketing focus has shifted again, and the mobile phone is king. Marketing via the mobile platform can be complicated. Phone makers and app providers are constantly making ...