The container-focused announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. today contained one very important word: anywhere. The cloud provider announced Amazon ECS Anywhere and Amazon EKS Anywhere as new hybrid container capabilities that can be run on-premises and in the cloud. While EKS is Kubernetes-specific and ECS handles general container orchestration, the most recent news from AWS recognizes that customers want ...

The stakes were raised considerably this week for industry players in the Mac mini hosting market. Amazon Web Services Inc. announced on Monday that it would bring the Mac mini into its cloud. This means that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Mac instances will allow customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for ...

For the better part of the past year, there have been plenty of news stories around how major cloud players were eating into the market dominance of Amazon Web Services Inc. While not addressing this directly, AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy used his opening remarks at AWS re:Invent to offer a different perspective. AWS’ leader made the ...

For some companies, a highlight during the year might be the kickoff of a rebranding campaign. At other firms, a significant annual milestone could be the launch of a multi-billion-dollar investment in client initiatives. Over the course of only 30 days in 2020, Accenture PLC managed to do both. In September, Accenture announced the formation ...

When Amazon Web Services last held its re:Invent conference one year ago, the process of digital transformation was making slow but steady progress. Then the world was suddenly turned upside down and shaken vigorously. A global pandemic, a huge shock to the world economy, and a major shift in how humans live and work suddenly ...

When Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, the new group launched with 18 members. At the time, the founders issued a call that they were open to adding more organizations. Over the five years since, the computing world responded. At the most recent virtual gathering of ...

There is a saying attributed to Confucius that states that “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” The 6th century BC Chinese philosopher never saw the age of enterprise computing, but if he had, the solution to life’s complexity might well have been AIOps. The onset of a global pandemic and ...

Over the years, Snowflake Inc. has built its reputation as a cloud data management and warehouse provider. Yet, as the company builds out its Data Cloud, Snowflake has emerged as playing a much more central role in how enterprises will ultimately manage data-driven workloads. The key building block for the Snowflake platform is the region, ...

The announcement of general availability for Red Hat OpenShift 4.6 at the end of October signaled another step in the evolution of the open hybrid cloud. Red Hat Inc.’s customers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux can now run OpenShift on practically any platform they can find. “OpenShift provides an abstraction which combines Kubernetes on top ...

Threat actors have been effective at weaponizing email through phishing attacks and social media via disinformation and divisive posts. Now they are about to weaponize the edge as well. A recent report from FortiGuard Labs, the threat intelligence and research organization of Fortinet Inc., predicts that weaponizing of connected devices at the intelligent edge could ...