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Cloud tools for community support play major role at AWS Public Sector Summit Online
As a deadly pandemic swept across the globe in early 2020, the impact was felt as strongly by the public sector as the private. Both quickly grasped a critical lesson in migrating to online platforms: Speed and scale matter. Healthcare organizations, government agencies and educational institutions were suddenly forced to provide essential services while leveraging ...
Rapid pace of change forces companies to move as fast as customers, says Cloud Wars analyst
The global pandemic has been a catalyst for motivating businesses to move rapidly onto digital platforms. What remains to be seen is how companies serving those businesses will adapt to the rapid pace of change. “Over the next year or two we’re going to see this mass forcing function in the tech industry that’s going ...
Watch live: Ansible’s evolving DevOps use spotlighted at AnsibleFest 2020
Speed matters in a time of crisis, and when a global pandemic forced much of the world to suddenly move online, cloud infrastructure configurations had to be scaled up quickly. This placed a premium on automated tools, which was one reason why Ansible, a solution from Red Hat Inc. that allowed enterprise-wide protocols to be ...
Aligning business and IT: ‘BizOps Manifesto Unveiled’ focuses on software development and operations
The enterprise world is in the midst of an “Ops” revolution, ranging from DevOps and ITOps to AIOps and SecOps. At the core, this concept embodies the connection between business operations and technology functions, which has led a coalition of industry leaders, under the guidance of Broadcom Inc., to create an umbrella framework over all ...
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Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo envisions a future world of storage as code
To understand the direction of the storage industry is to grasp the transformation taking place as the computing world becomes cloud-native and developer-centric. While many enterprises have adopted a hybrid model to leverage capabilities offered on-premises and in the cloud, the overall infrastructure has also become programmable as developer-generated applications manage key tasks. Eleven years ...
Impact of high-performance computing to be celebrated on Exascale Day
National Exascale Day will be on October 18, or “10 to the power of 18” calculations per second, which is what an exascale computer can do. The day is meant to recognize scientists who make breakthrough discoveries in a wide variety of fields, but it could also be viewed as a celebration of continued advances ...
ThoughtSpot amplifies value of data-driven culture at Thought.Leaders 2020
Getting the right answers using data analytics can be a daunting task. What if the result could be generated in seconds by asking precisely the right question, much like a Google search? Data analytics provider ThoughtSpot Inc. has built a $1.95 billion business by offering exactly this kind of solution. The company’s chief executive officer, ...
Watch live: ‘Accelerating with automation and programmability’ headlines DevNet special event
Last year, the “Harvard Business Review” published a list of the top 20 S&P 500 and Global 2000 companies that ranked highest in new growth transformation. In 15th position on that list was Cisco Systems Inc., a company that is not only making a transformation to software, but actively embracing the developer community in doing ...
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Public/private partnerships address need for top talent at the intersection of space and cybersecurity
In an economy hit hard by a global pandemic, it’s not easy to find growth fields. But the combination of a newly created branch for the U.S. military and ambitious plans by private enterprise has made space a fertile ground for career opportunity. The U.S. Space Force was formed last year as a new military ...
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Defense Department and NSA officials lead initiatives for US cybersecurity strategy
The process of combating threats in cyberspace is a multi-front war. Criminal organizations, nation states and even “lone wolf” hackers with too much time on their hands can launch attacks that have the potential to cause major economic damage or significant personal disruption. In recognition of this harsh new cyberworld, the U.S. government issued a ...