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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...