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 ...

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 ...

It was inevitable in a multicloud world that cloud providers would begin to combine services into a seamless whole for customers, and two major information technology industry heavyweights took a step in that direction this month. Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced the availability of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure on Wednesday, an ...

Events during a week in May last year provide a strong case for immutable data storage. On May 7, 2021, the computerized gas, diesel and home heating fuel system owned by Colonial Pipeline Inc. was hit by a ransomware attack that forced a shutdown of operations. With its impact on Colonial’s more than 5,500 miles ...

With his elevation this month to become the next chief executive of Red Hat Inc., Matt Hicks joined a select club of enterprise leaders well-known in tech circles but perhaps not as familiar to corporate America or the general business press. Like Arvind Krishna, who was selected to lead IBM Corp., Andy Jassy, who took the ...

The cloud has changed the way the enterprise views hardware, leading to a renaissance in systems design. An architecture that was once central processing unit-centric has become connectivity-centric, as data-driven workloads demand that key components, such as memory, flash storage and specialized accelerators, communicate with each other inside the modern data center. That has led ...

Slalom LLC and Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. have decades of collective experience in providing consulting and critical infrastructure services to financial clients around the world. Now the two companies have combined efforts to solve an age-old problem in the Web3 world: how a user can find all of their digital assets. With the growth of ...

Cloud computing in general and Amazon Web Services Inc. specifically have disrupted the technology landscape. Analysts at SiliconANGLE Media and in other segments of the tech industry have characterized the latest chapter in this disruption as a rise of the supercloud. It’s a layer beyond base infrastructure as a service, combining that with platform as ...

When CNBC conducted a survey in October on what kept technology industry leaders up at night, the results came back with a twist. Supply chain concerns and cybersecurity breaches were surprisingly not at the top of the list. In fact, 57% of tech executive respondents viewed finding qualified employees as the biggest worry. How is ...

Users of the Amazon Alexa digital assistant platform may not realize it, but when they ask the smart device to tell them the day’s weather, it triggers one of the most complex artificial intelligence applications in the world. That is because Alexa, which now handles billions of customer interactions every week, is composed of over ...