As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation marks its fifth year of operation, the group’s growing range of projects highlights an important milestone for open-source computing. With continued expansion of the cloud native community and more companies, including many of the world’s largest enterprises, becoming involved, open source is beginning to define its own value. “It ...

Banks demand security and compliance across mission-critical environments, and one of the largest financial institutions in the world relies on Red Hat Inc. and OpenShift to deploy data-intensive workloads using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Royal Bank of Canada and its 86,000 employees rely on Red Hat’s OpenShift for its container orchestration system to ...

While microservices have become standard for architecting software applications, there remains a nagging problem for developers: how to monitor and observe issues within an application through hundreds or thousands of microservices running across numerous hosts. Profiling and analyzing application code using specialized tools for developers, a practice known as tracing, generally works well in a ...

When a project or program grows 50%, that’s generally considered reasonable progress. 100%? Outstanding. 500%? Amazing. 1,000%? Over the top. Then there is growth of 2,100%, which is the approximate percentage reported by TechRepublic for the share of Kubernetes jobs per million and Kubernetes job searches between 2015 and 2019. And that was before a ...

When a company wants to move beyond single-digit share of the public cloud infrastructure market and gain a significant presence in an industry vertical where less than 10% of institutions primarily deploy workloads in the public cloud, it takes a game plan and a number of small steps. IBM recently announced one of those important steps ...

In his position as co-chief executive officer of MemSQL Inc., Raj Verma (pictured), has plenty of conversations every week with top executives across a wide range of industries. The topics are varied, but inevitably one question usually gets asked. “One of the things that most CEOs and CIOs ask for is: ‘Raj, how can I ...

When a major storm threatens industrial facilities, 100 minutes is a lot of time. That’s the average period it takes to process available global data to make weather predictions, so Maxar Technologies Inc. embarked on a project to speed that up. Working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Amazon Web Services Inc., Maxar developed ...

When it comes to managing workloads and applications in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix Inc. has borrowed a slogan popularized by one well-known athletic brand: Just do it. Nutanix announced an extension of its Clusters scale-out hyperconverged storage offering that will now be available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform and provide customers with a ...

One year after 20,000 cybersecurity professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA, no one traveled to the city this time, convention center hallways were dark and the world felt more perilous than ever before. Reflecting on a dystopian future described in a subgenre of science fiction known as “cyberpunk” in the 1980s, a somber ...

With the shift by higher education to online learning during the global pandemic, an attack by malicious hackers has become a real risk. But what if one attack against a university came from another school? This unusual situation was discovered recently by NetScout Systems Inc., which helped a major unnamed university thwart an attack against ...