When the preliminary design of Ingres, the forerunner to PostgreSQL, was first tested at UC Berkeley, the president of the United States at the time was a man named Richard Nixon and tech pioneers Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were still teenagers. That a database technology has this kind of longevity is testimony to the ...

It began as an open-source project incubated by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and today it has become one of the hottest startups in the tech world, with a $28 billion valuation and a highly anticipated initial public offering in the works. Databricks Inc. was founded in 2013 as an AI and data ...

When terms like supply chain, nation-state actors and ransomware become mainstream topics of national conversation, it’s probably a good time to take cybersecurity even more seriously. Over the past six months, a compromise of third-party software used to protect sensitive networks in the U.S. government and four-fifths of the Fortune 500 companies continues to play ...

If there is a singular example that shows how the cloud is paving the way for a new operating model where virtually everything will be delivered as-a-service, consider the mobile banking app. Applications for banking services were already gathering steam before COVID-19. After the pandemic closed many traditional in-person banking functions, the app became a ...

Major companies do not go through the trouble of developing new products without some measure of confidence that customers want them. In this regard, the flurry of announcements rolled out by Cisco Systems Inc. at its Cisco Live event in March offered an instructive look at the future expected for enterprise-grade computing networks. Cisco’s latest ...

Pure1, a platform for storage management and support first introduced by Pure Storage Inc. in 2015, has received a significant update to help manage the demands of modern IT. The company recently announced its new and improved Pure1 Digital Experience. Pure Storage users can now take advantage of new automated monitoring and AI-driven recommendations with self-service ...

In the aftermath of two headline-grabbing attacks over the past six months, more high-profile security researchers and analysts are beginning to cast a wary eye at internal systems and technology tools. The SolarWinds breach, a compromise of third-party software used to protect networks in the U.S. government and four-fifths of Fortune 500 companies, was discovered ...

The acquisition of Portworx Inc. by Pure Storage Inc. for $370 million last year was viewed as opening a new buying opportunity for Pure with the DevOps community. According to Portworx’s co-founder and former chief executive, the two firms have been working together in precisely that direction. “Pure had this outstanding core infrastructure product, well ...

IDC has predicted that by 2022, 90% of global enterprises will rely on a blending of multiple public clouds, on-premises/dedicated private clouds and legacy platforms. That’s a sizable market that will be dependent on a hybrid cloud strategy, and two major companies in the IT world are positioning to take full advantage of the opportunity. ...

When Cisco Systems Inc. announced Cisco Plus, its as-a-service model for compute, networking and storage hardware, in late March, it was telling which of the new features would be introduced first this year. It was Cisco Plus Hybrid Cloud, scheduled for release in mid-2021. That Cisco would lead with its hybrid cloud offering, which combines ...