The global collaboration software market is no longer a quiet corner of the tech industry. Revised predictions now show the market nearly tripling, from $8.9 billion in 2019 to $23 billion in 2020. And in light of the worldwide pandemic, there’s now a significant emphasis on the use of technology to collaborate on tasks and ...

Gaze into the crystal ball and the cybersecurity picture, like much of the coming year, is decidedly murky. But there are enough signals from 2020 to form a reasonable view of what to expect in 2021 — and it is not a pretty image. The stage is set for nation-state hacking on a scale never ...

Even before a global pandemic eliminated many services that relied on person-to-person contact, the self-service revolution was already underway. Now, much like today’s routine use of ATMs and airline ticketing kiosks, the ability to find, catalog and gain useful insight from data is becoming self-service as well. Io-Tahoe LLC has carved out a position in ...

With a significant customer base and extensive infrastructure, Amazon Web Services Inc. has the capability to meet a wide range of needs for enterprise customers. But what opportunities will there be for system integrators and independent software vendors in a world dominated by very powerful public cloud providers such as AWS? The answer can be ...

Today was “Partner Day” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s virtual re:Invent conference, and much of the focus was on delivering a key message: Build the abstraction layer for the cloud, and everyone will win. An example of this could be seen in this week’s announcement by AWS partner Okta Inc. that it would provide infrastructure ...

There has been some positive news this year around Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s GreenLake on-premises cloud service, with hopes for the current trend to translate into stronger financial results over the long term for the company. Recent earnings results, which were released on December 1, showed that net revenue of $7.2 billion was flat from ...

There is a word that begins with the letter “C” that is uppermost on the minds of many people these days, and it isn’t COVID. It’s “collaboration,” and the term has become essential to getting basic work done, from the mundane to the highly complex. A global pandemic has placed significant emphasis on the use ...

When it comes to equipping employees with the digital tools to make informed business decisions, there are leaders and there are laggards. In which category an organization belongs will likely determine its success in the months and years ahead. Leaders and laggards in the complicated business of making informed decisions with the right information are ...

Amid the rolling tide of announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. this week was a set of enhancements to abstract away infrastructure and make the lives of developers easier. The bigger story was a continued march toward the programmable cloud. AWS announced the next version of Aurora Serverless, which makes it easier to migrate from ...

The American essayist Charles Dudley Warner once wrote that “simplicity is making this journey of life with just baggage enough.” His motto could have easily covered movement of today’s IT community toward AIOps, with a keen desire to shed as much operational baggage as possible. A single cloud migration can create new layers of operational ...