What started with a simple phone conversation seven years ago led to a $2 billion acquisition in 2021. That is how much Pluralsight LLC paid to acquire A Cloud Guru Ltd. in the middle of last year. When company co-founder Ryan Kroonenburg just missed getting hired for a job at a major cloud provider in ...

From the turmoil in digital currencies and rising complexity for information technology departments to advances in machine learning and continued challenges in cybersecurity, 2022 proved to be busy year in the technology world. Hundreds of interviews on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, and SiliconANGLE’s ongoing news coverage of major tech events provided a bountiful ...

Infosys Ltd. launched its Cobalt suite of reference architectures in the summer of 2020, offering 14,000 cloud assets and 200 industry blueprints. Now, the global system integrator has embarked on Cobalt 2.0, with a mission to transform industries. “We wanted to focus on industry clouds,” said Anant Adya (pictured, right), executive vice president for Infosys ...

Kubernetes has revolutionized cloud computing, but it can also chew up a lot of time for developers. The process often involves building a container image, deploying an EC2 instance, allocating memory, placing the app in a virtual machine, and running the instance against the app. Then it comes time to pay for it all. This ...

Technology providers and customers have embraced a model for building applications using resources from private and public cloud platforms. The result has been a multicloud world that made sense from a business standpoint, yet has brought new headaches to IT shops as well. “Going cloud-first was deliberate and strategic in most cases, and this caused ...

When Australia’s largest theme park operator found itself needing to modernize an aging IT network, it turned to a software-defined wide area network solution, but ultimately confronted interoperability issues in its effort to transform enterprise operations. “Interoperability is a major issue in the IT industry,” said Michael Fagan (pictured), chief transformation officer of Village Roadshow Ltd. “When ...

Among the many story lines to emerge from Ignite ’22 in Las Vegas this week was the continued evolution of Palo Alto Network Inc.’s partnership with Google LLC. The security platform provider announced plans to combine Security Service Edge functionality from its Prisma Cloud with Google’s BeyondCorp Enterprise offering to provide hybrid users with Zero Trust ...

It started 18 years ago as a network security company that was focused on firewalls, but Palo Alto Networks Inc. has evolved into a different firm today. The company made a concerted effort to build a true cloud-native platform, dramatically reducing the need for sensor deployment or on-premises proxies. This approach has proved effective as ...

The name of Unit 42, a resource within Palo Alto Networks Inc., has a double meaning. It is the answer given by a supercomputer to the ultimate question of life in the Universe, as described in a popular science fiction book – “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It is also a team of global ...

Following executive leadership roles at Google LLC and SoftBank Group Corp., Nikesh Arora (pictured) joined Palo Alto Networks Inc. in 2018 as the firm’s chairman and CEO. For nearly five years, he has guided the security provider’s strategic direction toward consistency for customers in a cloud-based world. “You need consistency in data; you need consistency as ...