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Three insights you might have missed from AWS re:Inforce 2022
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 ...
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‘Clouderati’ panel of industry experts assesses future of supercloud in a multicloud world
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, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: SUPERCLOUD RISING
Complicated rivalry between Snowflake and Databricks spotlights key trends in enterprise computing
There have been legendary rivalries among tech companies over decades: Amazon versus Microsoft and Google in cloud, Salesforce versus Oracle and SAP, Twitch versus YouTube, Tesla versus the tech divisions of an entire automotive industry. Now there’s a growing contest between enterprise heavyweights Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. that promises to deliver its own fireworks. ...
IT industry grapples with complexity and security as Kubernetes adoption grows
The information technology industry has a complexity problem, and it is leading to deeper conversations among thought leaders around how to solve it. The days of building applications on one server using a monolithic architecture have transformed into developing numerous microservices, packaging them into containers, and orchestrating the entire production using Kubernetes in a distributed ...
AWS’ Clint Crosier strives to make the world a better place from space
It was through leaps in technology that the U.S. space program was able to land humans on the Moon in 1969. Over half a century later, technology is again transforming the space industry in major ways. While commercialized space flight companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have captured a great deal of ...
DigitalBits announces decentralized exchange to further liquidity and tokenization
DigitalBits is preparing to roll out a 100% decentralized exchange and open-source platform that is built on its own blockchain. DigitalBits is a protocol that can tokenize any asset on its blockchain. At the end of July, the company announced the NicoSwap decentralized exchange as an alternative to Uniswap, an open-source protocol for providing liquidity ...
Barracuda Networks targets industrial IoT, operational technologies for cloud and application security
A new survey released by Barracuda Networks Inc. has found that organizations are struggling to protect operational technology, and they are getting hacked as a consequence. The report. titled “The State of Industrial Security in 2022,” was conducted by independent market researcher Vanson Bourne and involved 800 participants, including senior IT security managers. The research ...
Cisco leverages Snort 3 and Talos to manage trust in an evolving cloud-based world
Hybrid and multicloud computing environments have redefined the trust boundary. In the computer world, a trust boundary serves as an interface for the marking on a data packet that is allowed to flow through a network. Remote work by remote users and the consumption of cloud-based tools to perform business functions have dramatically changed the ...
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Three insights you might have missed from the AWS Summit New York event
Amazon Web Services Inc. demonstrated its own resilience during its Summit New York event on July 12. Although the scheduled keynote speaker for the Summit, chief technology officer Werner Vogels, was unable to attend, AWS’ principal developer advocate, Martin Beeby, stepped in and delivered several announcements. These included general availability of the AWS Cloud WAN ...
Analysts hear calls for layered protection and new security models at AWS re:Inforce 2022
An expanding number of cloud services, including instances, infrastructure and small applications have added a note of urgency to enterprise security, and this will demand new approaches. This was one of the clear takeaways from the keynote session at AWS re:Inforce, cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc.’s security event in Boston today. “There is no ...









