At a time when kids his age were playing Little League baseball or collecting marbles, Bassam Tabbara (pictured) was already a developer. He got his first computer as a child and started his own company at 14. “I started programming when I was nine,” said Tabbara, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE Media. “I was immediately ...

When EMC Corp. acquired VMware Inc. for $625 million in 2004, it was also the first year of VMworld. So perhaps it is only fitting that on the first gathering of VMware Explore in San Francisco this month, an acquisition is again front-page news. The newly renamed event comes at a time when much of ...

Events of the past year have focused the security community on a shifting environment in which tech vulnerabilities are playing a role in warfare, DevOps and global finance. Examples of this new reality can be seen in the use of cyber weapons during the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, persistent vulnerabilities found in the use ...

The rise of supercloud has raised an intriguing question about the cloud market’s future: How will the major cloud providers react to having companies such as Snowflake Inc., Zscaler Inc. and Databricks Inc. building highly successful businesses on top of hyperscale platforms? On one hand, Amazon Web Services Inc. generates a handsome profit from its ...

The growth of superclouds, abstraction layers above and across hyperscale infrastructure, is leading to the creation of firms specifically designed to provide such services. One of these is Prosimo.io, a company that built its business around supporting a multicloud infrastructure strategy for delivering applications. It is a prime example of how the supercloud is filling ...

Technology has unintended consequences, and this reality is getting much of the security world’s focus as events play out this year. There was news at the Black Hat 2022 cybersecurity conference this week about creating an open standard for analyzing enterprise data, innovative new security tools and a declaration by the former head of government cybersecurity that ...

The internet we know today, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, is dominated by companies providing services in exchange for user data. Web3 represents the internet that may soon rise to prominence, characterized by decentralized finance, blockchain-driven applications and participation in the metaverse. The world of cryptocurrencies has already seen its share of highs and lows. ...

This year’s Red Hat Summit gathering in early May provided an opportunity to step back from the enterprise computing treadmill and assess the long-term implications of where network innovation is headed. Along with news surrounding an edge platform opportunity with General Motors Corp. and the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this year’s gathering ...

One message coming out of AWS re:Inforce in July was that every transaction at scale has become the “new perimeter.” This will significantly test enterprise security, as organizations must contend with an expanding number of cloud services, infrastructure complexity, and an avalanche of small applications. There was a clear sense at the gathering in Boston ...

Despite the cloud’s numerous benefits, enterprise frustration is building over challenges compounded by the embrace of multicloud. This was one of the conclusions documented by F5 Inc. in its annual “State of Application Strategy” report that was released this year. With nearly every business invested in a muticloud model, employing 2.16 different environments on average, ...