One U.S. city used Ansible Automation to provision resources for creation of a virtual emergency operations center when COVID-19 struck last year. In another state, an IT department employed the platform to speed delivery of digital services through 19 government agencies for residents. Automation platforms, such as Red Hat Inc.’s Ansible, are increasingly being deployed ...

Oracle Corp. introduced its Exadata platform for customers to run the technology giant’s database offering in October 2008. Today, the company celebrated Exadata’s 13th birthday by releasing a number of new enhancements. The X9M version represents a new family of products designed to make Exadata easier to use, more manageable, more highly available and with ...

The second day in September marked an opportunity for Amazon Web Services Inc. to hold its third annual Storage Day event, which included exclusive insights and announcements from leaders across AWS Storage. TheCUBE’s coverage of AWS Storage Day featured interviews with key executives from the cloud provider and other firms, who shared a rich perspective ...

How much pressure are enterprise data teams facing today? It’s a tricky subject to measure, but one company has given it a try. Ascend.io published the results of a study in June that found that 96% of data professionals are at or over capacity. Metrics such as these point to a conclusion that data teams are ...

One of the strongest examples of an early pioneer in data mesh, a highly decentralized data architecture, is not a telecommunications firm, large-scale manufacturing business or even a financial industry giant. It’s HelloFresh SE, a German publicly traded meal kit company. The data team at HelloFresh found itself in a whirlwind of growth as the ...

As disruptive as the global pandemic has been for many people and industries, schools have to rank near the top in overall impact. What little online learning platforms existed for K-12 students across the U.S. suddenly became the only option. Parents and children were abruptly cast into a full-time home learning environment with virtually no ...

The technology startup ecosystem is thriving, and a DevOps movement sits at the center of a universe that revolves around data analytics and cloud management tools. In partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio theCUBE kicked off the latest in the AWS Startup Showcase Series, “New Breakthroughs in DevOps, Analytics, and Cloud ...

In many enterprises today, DevOps staff and cloud architects are moving at light speed. They want things done at the point of coding and in the continuous integration pipeline in hours not weeks. When technology collides with security postures and other demands that hinder rapid cloud development, the IT operational process slows down, disconnects arise, ...

Much as today’s automobiles have become computers on wheels, the same can be said for railway systems as well. In Switzerland, the nation’s modern railway system– Swiss Federal Railways or SBB — moves 810,000 passengers per day and has become a major user of Red Hat Inc.’s open-source automation Ansible technology for automating IT infrastructure ...

Like a car alarm that goes off every time a noisy motorcycle drives by, alerts within IT operational teams cause irritation and work overload. While not every alert signifies something important, the challenge continues to be separating the trivial from the top priorities. Since its founding is 2014, OpsRamp Inc. has been on a mission ...