In an age of distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and workloads, the act of “monitoring” has morphed into “observability,” yet both remain important as enterprises manage complex hybrid and multicloud infrastructure. The distinction between monitoring and observability can be tricky to pin down. But the two terms are increasingly being differentiated by monitoring solutions for traditional system architectures ...

In June 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced that it would offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022. Nearly two years later, that big bet is showing signs of paying off. And a key element driving the initiative is HPE GreenLake. Launched in November 2017, GreenLake was introduced as a pay-per-use suite ...

For some enterprises, data can be a blind spot, a large repository of information with little connection to the goals and objectives of the business. To address that issue, companies are turning to knowledge graphs that combine artificial intelligence, virtualization and graph to unify disparate data into a meaningful, real-world context. One startup that has ...

Anyone who has ever used Twitter, eaten a plant-based product from Beyond Meat, adjusted the temperature using a Nest thermostat, researched a pin on Pinterest, communicated via Slack or paid for a meal using Square has one person to thank: Biz Stone. The lifelong technologist (pictured) has been either a co-founder or an early investor ...

Without traffic signals and signage, life would not be pleasant on local streets; motorists would drive in opposing lanes and chaos would ensue. A stop sign is a reliable standard; it means the same thing no matter where it may be located. The OpenTelemetry project is the computing industry’s attempt to provide a de facto standard ...

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, the road to recovery will undoubtedly run through small and medium-sized businesses. In recognition of this, Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced the global launch of its Think Big for Small Business Program for small and minority owned partners. The global expansion follows a pilot introduction of the program ...

Just as “flattening the curve” has become the battle cry for communities around the world seeking to combat the spread of COVID-19, the mantra applies to the threat climate for cybersecurity in 2021 as well. That is one of the conclusions to be drawn from the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs “Global Threat Landscape report”. Released ...

If companies are prepared to believe that the impact of the massive SolarWinds breach is past us, cybersecurity analyst Brian Krebs has a different view. The breach, which leveraged malware surreptitiously planted by a nation state in SolarWinds security tools used by government agencies and the world’s largest corporations, has exfiltrated troves of data from ...

Like planes stacked on a runway during a busy holiday, the drone industry has been stuck in a holding pattern for several years as government authorities debated controls and companies labored to develop support networks. But now, two new sets of regulations issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration at the end of December, coupled ...

Predicting the future of compute is a little like forecasting an afternoon of high winds and rain on a calm, cloudless morning. It may not seem obvious, but change is coming. It always does. What change will look like for the computing world depends on how the strategies being put in place now by major ...