When an estimated 100 million viewers tune in to watch this month’s NFL Super Bowl, they will be seeing more than the Los Angeles Rams squaring off against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles for the championship of professional football. They will be watching a massive network in action run by Cisco ...

The growth of open source has changed commonly held beliefs about the number of people needed to run critical tools that power technology today. A prime example of what this actually means can be found in the open-source data transfer utility cURL. The software began as 300 lines of C code 24 years ago and ...

The process for reading the next wave of technology is not unlike that of a surfer waiting for the next swell in a vast ocean. From trying to determine whether the wave will break left or right, to getting a read on the wave’s expected peak and quality, it’s a tricky process at best. The ...

In 2021, Sysdig Inc. published a container security and usage report that identified a few troubling findings. While a majority of global Sysdig customers were scanning containers before deployment, over half of those containers were running as root, a user default that provides access to all commands and files on the operating system. In addition, ...

When 90% of IT leaders say they are using enterprise open source, it’s a sign of a technology wave that will continue to influence the computing world for a long time. The result has been development of an open-source-fueled startup ecosystem that works closely with many of the world’s largest tech providers to build new ...

Ten years may seem like a long time to some, but in the world of technology, it can also mean that things are just getting started. This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Amazon DynamoDB, the flexible NoSQL database service that offers single-digit millisecond performance at scale. The project sprang from a ...

It was nearly two years ago that Allan Friedman, director of cybersecurity initiatives at the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, posed a key question. If consumers can read the ingredients on a box of Twinkies, then why can’t software makers, whose products run the most impactful systems on the planet, provide a bill of ...

The story of the rise of cloud computing and its impact on the technology industry begins with one word: innovation. The growth of Amazon Web Services Inc. and its public cloud platform has been accompanied by a wave of innovative new technologies spanning AI, cybersecurity, data management, DevOps and open source. This innovation has fueled ...

At the start of 2022, cloud-native computing remains hot, though at times perhaps misunderstood. One measure of its popularity can be found in a report recently issued by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The CNCF, which is the vendor-neutral home for fast-growing open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy, found that the number of ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. This situation is commonly referred to as “open core,” and to address this issue, Instaclustr Pty. Ltd. has built its business around providing managed support to configure ...