When Swami Sivasubramanian was a Ph.D. student in 2005, he landed a research engineer internship at Amazon.com Inc. He soon realized that Amazon was more than an online retailer. It was a technology company that happened to do e-commerce. The company’s technological bias led to a white paper in 2007 that outlined the concept for a ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal. That was the validation NoSQL document database provider MongoDB received in early February when Oracle Corp. announced availability of the Oracle Database API for MongoDB. ...

When one major breach technique becomes successful, it’s a sure bet that rapid adoption by threat actors will follow. This maxim has become more evident following a successful attack on the software supply chain through a breach of SolarWinds Inc. more than one year ago. Software supply chain attacks grew 650% in 2021, according to a report ...

With the onset of a global pandemic two years ago, remote work became the norm for a majority of enterprise firms. A significant percentage of the workforce was predicted to return to the office by the end of 2021, but the rise of COVID variants threw a wrench into those plans. Meeting the challenges posed ...

When an estimated 100 million viewers tune in to watch this month’s NFL Super Bowl, they will be seeing more than the Los Angeles Rams squaring off against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles for the championship of professional football. They will be watching a massive network in action run by Cisco ...

The growth of open source has changed commonly held beliefs about the number of people needed to run critical tools that power technology today. A prime example of what this actually means can be found in the open-source data transfer utility cURL. The software began as 300 lines of C code 24 years ago and ...

The process for reading the next wave of technology is not unlike that of a surfer waiting for the next swell in a vast ocean. From trying to determine whether the wave will break left or right, to getting a read on the wave’s expected peak and quality, it’s a tricky process at best. The ...

In 2021, Sysdig Inc. published a container security and usage report that identified a few troubling findings. While a majority of global Sysdig customers were scanning containers before deployment, over half of those containers were running as root, a user default that provides access to all commands and files on the operating system. In addition, ...

When 90% of IT leaders say they are using enterprise open source, it’s a sign of a technology wave that will continue to influence the computing world for a long time. The result has been development of an open-source-fueled startup ecosystem that works closely with many of the world’s largest tech providers to build new ...

Ten years may seem like a long time to some, but in the world of technology, it can also mean that things are just getting started. This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Amazon DynamoDB, the flexible NoSQL database service that offers single-digit millisecond performance at scale. The project sprang from a ...