Nearly 20 years ago, core principles of the DevOps movement were actually written down. That was when 17 software developers created the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” and released it as a philosophy of teamwork and continuous delivery in February 2001. Those tenets remain very much a part of the DevOps culture today. The desire ...

When Dell Technologies  released its Global Data Protection Index 2020 Snapshot earlier this year, a couple of findings stood out. Businesses were now managing 40% more data than a year ago, and the cost of data loss had grown to over $1 million per organization. Facing that kind of risk, enterprises need effective enterprise data ...

The firm of Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that businesses around the world will be victimized by a ransomware attack every 11 seconds in 2021. With the frequency of such threats increasing, it is becoming more vital than ever for companies with critical data to protect it. JANA Investment Advisers Pty. Ltd. is Australia’s leading investment ...

Of the 19 tech companies that went public so far this year, 18 of them debuted at an average price of $23. The 19th company — Snowflake Inc. — opened at $120 and swiftly rose to set a record for the largest IPO by a U.S. software company in history. The company’s valuation, currently at ...

The Kubernetes story in 2020 is not so much about how it has become ubiquitous in enterprise computing, but rather how the groundwork is being laid for it to disappear. The popular container orchestration tool has continued its massive growth path, with 91% of companies reporting adoption and 75% use within enterprise production environments, according ...

In the beginning, there was “Dev” and there was “Ops.” Now, the term “DevOps” has taken its place in the tech lexicon, and the combination symbolizes how developers and IT operations have blended into one unit block. What propelled DevOps to the forefront of organizational focus was a desire to drive both productivity and software ...

Like a winter storm that suddenly comes down from a mountain and drops two feet of snow on a town’s unprepared residents, Snowflake Inc.’s eye-popping initial public offering in September became the largest U.S. software company IPO in history. Wasn’t the data warehouse market supposed to be dead? The company’s record-setting valuation, which recently hovered around $77 ...

With the presidential election of 2020 presumably decided in favor of President-elect Joe Biden, what does the political future hold for the tech industry? That was the focus of Lincoln Reboot 2020, a three-day virtual event ending today that was organized by the Lincoln Network, a right-leaning political organization that brings together technologists, government officials ...

In a time when routines have been significantly disrupted, even corporate quarterly earnings calls can yield a surprise. One such event with top executives from Salesforce.com Inc., generally routine affairs filled with standard financial reporting, took an unexpected turn in August. During the Salesforce call, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive, revealed that a third ...

Less than two years after taking the helm at Google Cloud, Chief Executive Thomas Kurian has made his playbook for competing with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure clear: Build for a multicloud future, democratize analytics and press the advantage offered by BigQuery. That last strategy has proved to be a major factor in Google ...