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How would work change if all employees used just one app?
It seems there’s always another work application coming over the horizon. It will make one task or process — like intra-office messaging — easier. Hurrah. However, it will be yet another app in the crowded suite many workers must use every day. When will there be one app or platform to replace all those tabs ...
How will Bahrain’s young startup scene attract VC big bucks?
The nation of Bahrain has the blessing of its government for fresh technology initiatives; a just-opened Amazon Web Services Inc. Cloud Region; new technological education initiatives up to the college level; and startup support networks. But will any of these help Bahrain’s entrepreneurs win hard cash from venture capitalists? Bahrain’s startup scene is best described as a “groundswell,” according ...
Coaxing network people into automated-DevOps fast lane
Networking is climbing up the computing stack, morphing into new, cloud-compatible types, from intent-based to programmable networking. Alongside technology, networking culture is also transforming, incorporating new elements for automation and fresh paradigms for approaching operations. Terms like NetDevOps might make some networking people nervous; how many bases must they cover? Do they have to write code now? Automation ...
Enterprise security evolves alongside automation, intelligent orchestration
Cybersecurity professionals today are betting a bundle on automation. Short-staffed, under-skilled, and facing novel threats, they hope automation can help by performing certain tasks on their behalf. But simply buying a few software products may not substantively improve a company’s security stance, according to Ted Julian (pictured), vice president of product management and co-founder of Resilient, ...
New AWS Middle East Region shakes up local cloud market
Now that Amazon Web Services Inc. has opened its Middle East Region in Bahrain, how will it impact other technology companies in the region? Will AWS suck up the market share of smaller cloud providers and independent software vendors? In the U.S., AWS and smaller providers coexist and even benefit each other. It appears that a ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
Regulators and innovators are better together in a sandbox
Revolution and regulation can get into some ugly squabbles when they abut one another. This is obviously true in technology; strict laws governing finance and healthcare, for example, can shackle much-desired innovation. Some regulators and techies are working together to develop technologies that don’t incite drawn-out battles over legislative fine print. “Technology is changing the paradigm of ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
Head Mideast, young man: Bahrain’s bid to lure startups
It’s no secret that there are sound reasons to migrate to Silicon Valley to found a tech company. But there are also practical reasons to head elsewhere — like, say, the highest housing costs in the U.S. So perhaps New York or Boston? Try Bahrain — a small Arab nation with big dreams of developing a ...
ANALYSIS
Data-driven business drives Pure outside its comfort zone to cloud and AI
Modern information technology is squeezing storage to perform at unprecedented levels. From one side, big data is pushing for more capacity; from the other side, hybrid cloud and multicloud demand that it be everywhere all the time. This is why some vendors of storage — and data backup and data protection — are undergoing technological ...
ANALYSIS
AWS and Pure go deep for hybrid-cloud Frankenstorage
What breed of computing storage do modern companies require? Most are moving targets darting between cloud and on-premises data centers, so it’s a complicated question. Which company is best positioned to answer it? Is it on-premises legacy, a public-cloud hyperscaler, or a hyperconverged infrastructure provider? Or maybe it’s a company with strong on-prem roots but ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
Cloud is the new oil: AWS tech, education projects aim to modernize Bahrain
Ever hear the phrase “Data is the new oil”? The oft-repeated mantra has a whole new meaning in the country of Bahrain. The country lacks the oil reserves and resulting riches of Saudi Arabia and Iran. But through a partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., it’s now determined to transform its economy with technology. The Middle ...