When a global pandemic forced the closure of millions of businesses, many employees were required to access company systems through virtual private networks. This proved to be a reasonable stopgap solution in the face of extraordinary circumstances, but it also increased the threat surface significantly. Security companies have responded through implementation of zero-trust network access, ...

The partnership announced on June 29 between Google Cloud, Ericsson AB and Telecom Italia SpA, to deliver 5G and edge cloud solutions represents an early salvo in what is expected to be a fierce battle for control of the edge. The goal is to make edge computing devices more useful but also create on opportunity for ...

As former director of the National Security Agency and previous commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, General (Ret) Keith Alexander is familiar with defending against threats. Now, as chief executive officer and president of IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., he’s applying that knowledge to protect the largest state public power utility in the country. IronNet, which was recently ...

In today’s competitive technology world, any enterprise that’s not data-driven is likely driving itself out of business. However, being data-driven presents enterprises with a choice between using a single multimodal database or specialized databases for a wide range of workloads. This choice is critical because the decision can have a significant impact on cost, agility, ...

According to research firm IDC Research Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. has been the market leader by revenue in purpose-built backup appliances for as long as IDC has been tracking the category. The research firm’s 2020 market results, released in April, showed Dell in firm position with a 47% market share. Dell’s position in the backup ...

When the National Institutes of Health set out to build the largest centralized collection of COVID-19 patient data in the world, it turned to Palantir Technologies Inc. to make it happen. The result was a data enclave so that researchers with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, or N3C, were better able to understand COVID data ...

Partners play a key role in the Public Sector business for Amazon Web Services Inc. by helping drive innovation and results for the cloud provider’s customers. AWS recently recognized those partner contributions through its 2021 AWS Global Public Sector Partners Awards. “Every year we like to hone-in on those who leveraged their skills and ability ...

It was a day of interviews and innovation on June 16 when theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, aired the AWS Startup Showcase: The Next Big Things in AI, Security and Life Sciences. Participants during the event focused on a wide range of important industry topics, many of which were covered in the numerous articles generated ...

The keynote discussion during Postgres Vision 2021 focused on a number of important areas, including the growing use of containers, open-source innovation and the critical role that databases will play in the enterprise. But one of the key takeaways from the presentation given by EnterpriseDB Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ed Boyajian was about the power of ...

In April, Amazon Web Services Inc. and DISH Network Corp. announced a strategic partnership to run what is believed to be the first cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network. It will likely not be the last. With plans to deploy the model nationwide later this year, the two companies indicated that the first network would ...