It was nearly two years ago that Allan Friedman, director of cybersecurity initiatives at the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, posed a key question. If consumers can read the ingredients on a box of Twinkies, then why can’t software makers, whose products run the most impactful systems on the planet, provide a bill of ...

The story of the rise of cloud computing and its impact on the technology industry begins with one word: innovation. The growth of Amazon Web Services Inc. and its public cloud platform has been accompanied by a wave of innovative new technologies spanning AI, cybersecurity, data management, DevOps and open source. This innovation has fueled ...

At the start of 2022, cloud-native computing remains hot, though at times perhaps misunderstood. One measure of its popularity can be found in a report recently issued by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The CNCF, which is the vendor-neutral home for fast-growing open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy, found that the number of ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. This situation is commonly referred to as “open core,” and to address this issue, Instaclustr Pty. Ltd. has built its business around providing managed support to configure ...

The container and cloud security market is riding a wave of growth, and one of the companies capitalizing on that opportunity is Sysdig Inc. Founded in 2013, Sysdig grew out of an open-source project to troubleshoot issues in the modern container-based infrastructure. The company’s founder and chief technology officer, Loris Degioanni (pictured), had successfully combined an open-source ...

The past year has not been an easy one for security in the software industry. First there was the SolarWinds breach caused by exploits in software tools downloaded from a third-party provider. Then there was the more recent Log4j Apache open-source logging framework vulnerability, which the tech world has been scrambling to patch since mid-November. ...

Even though this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will likely go into the books as one of the least-attended in recent history thanks to the continuing pandemic, there was still plenty of tech innovation on display. While 170,000 attendees clogged the aisles in Las Vegas for the 2020 show just before the pandemic hit, the Consumer ...

Innovation in the startup economy comes in many forms. During an ongoing pandemic in which many enterprises continued to operate remotely during 2021, logging in from the home office became standard protocol. However, the chief executive and co-founder of one enterprising startup took the remote work model to a whole new level this past summer ...

When the COVID-19 virus began to spread widely across the U.S. early in 2020, concerned citizens turned to an online database set up and maintained by Johns Hopkins University of Medicine for the most up-to-date data. That useful interface continues to rely heavily on information supplied by the geospatial pioneer Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., ...

After four straight days of interviews on two TV production sets and more than 100 interviews at a Las Vegas venue, theCUBE’s coverage of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent 2021 is in the books. AWS made a significant number of announcements and covered a great deal of ground during what has become one of the ...