Open Policy Agent is now officially a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s graduating class of 2021. The open-source general purpose policy engine had experienced 91% adoption, according to an OPA user survey, and has been placed in production for major enterprises, such as Netflix Inc., Pinterest Inc., T-Mobile USA Inc. and The Goldman Sachs ...

With the explosion of network edges, ranging from wide and local area networks to cloud, data center and even the home, the attack surface for cybersecurity threats has expanded as well. To help address this growing challenge, Fortinet Inc. has just announced version 7.0 of its FortiOS flagship operating system. The latest release focuses on Fortinet’s ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed daily life for much of the planet has also altered the role of technology in wide-ranging areas. Two of them that have seen particularly stark changes are data privacy and urban transportation. How those two fields will be reshaped is still a work in progress, but a clearer picture ...

Before March 2020, the videoconferencing industry was a mix of services and team collaboration tools that had respectable enterprise participation and modest consumer usage. But in what may well represent one of the fastest technology pivots of the modern era, videoconferencing has become an essential, daily communications tool, connecting global businesses, families, the legal system and ...

Events of the past year have created a situation where enterprises either become digital businesses or go out of business. This function, brought on by a global pandemic that brought much of the world online for work and service delivery, has placed more pressure on companies to manage data and the complexity of hybrid and ...

Business continuity planning is not keeping pace with enterprise migration to hybrid or multicloud. That’s according to a survey compiled last year by 451 Research, contacting 1,200 global IT decision makers. While the journey to hybrid and multicloud was clearly in process, organizations were grappling with a number of operational challenges. These included a notable ...

The evolution of the public cloud over the past 15 years has been all about building — creating infrastructure to power enterprises of any size on a global basis. That has set the stage for another chapter in the cloud story. It’s one in which new businesses will be built on top of cloud platforms ...

Nothing in the tech industry stays the same as products and technologies are constantly evolving, and the cloud is a living example. The cloud started as a place where enterprises could run key applications off-premises in secure environments. That transformed to a cloud native model where applications were built and run on the cloud platform. ...

The cybersecurity world is a race against time: Organizations have a finite amount of resources and limited runway to find and fix bugs in code before malicious actors can discover and exploit them with damaging results. The way to best minimize this exposure is to fix bugs before software has been deployed into cloud native ...

After serving in senior-level executive positions over the past two decades for influential enterprise technology companies such as VMware Inc., Splunk Inc., EMC and ServiceNow Inc., Muddu Sudhakar has developed a sense of where the tech industry is headed. From his perspective, that next wave will not involve simply compute or storage but service delivery models ...