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AWS partners hold their own in next-gen data management, security
The superstore underlying Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Marketplace, is home to 4,200 software listings from 1,300 vendors. As AWS rafts across diverse domains like machine learning and virtual reality, it’s overlapping with Marketplace partners, inevitably competing with them. But for now, these AWS-affiliated startups are holding their own in emerging areas of hybrid cloud security and next-gen ...
Monitoring tool babysits temperamental microservices apps
Call it the Google effect. The simpler and more intuitive an application, the more sophisticated the technology that built it. With microservices, businesses are building more such apps, which demand more powerful and approachable monitoring, according to Christoph Pfister (pictured), executive vice president of products at SolarWinds Worldwide LLC. “These apps have become massively complex,” Pfister said. ...
In cloud boomtown, nobody talks about apps, says Zettabytes
The grass is greener in the cloud than on-premises — for greenfield applications. A quick-and-dirty lift-and-shift to the cloud can leave legacy applications homesick for hardware, according to Rishi Yadav (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of Zettabytes Inc. “Nobody’s talking about that,” Yadav said. The persnickety requirements of diverse apps are lost in endless ...
HGTV parent company skips intermissions with agile cloud
“Cord-cutting” has disrupted old-school TV-show-viewing means and machines, making audiences a tougher target for programmers to pin down. Born and bred in broadcast, Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. is chasing them on and off the tube with agile cloud computing. “The whole consumption method for all of our end users is changing,” said Mark Kelly (pictured), director of ...
Shining a spend-control light on shadow IT hoarders
Applications spread around multicloud infrastructure are difficult to manage from a technical perspective; budgeting and controlling cost for them — particularity, software as a service apps — can be equally tricky. “SaaS has enabled shadow IT in a way that we’ve never seen,” said Mike Gersten (pictured, right), global innovation and strategy officer at SoftwareONE AG. The ...
Cisco and SD-WAN acquisition fatten up network fabric
When Cisco Systems Inc. acquired software-defined network startup Viptela Inc. earlier this year, some saw a flat-footed legacy trying to buy relevance. The 33-year-old multinational giant, however, is infusing Viptela with more than the $610-million check it plunked down for it, according to Manan Shah (pictured), director of product management at Cisco Systems. The companies are ...
Developing apps for three-second attention spans
Consumers run the show on their laptop and mobile devices. A slowpoke webpage or lackluster software application can be history with a single click or swipe. Apps must keep their acts together with rapid iteration and applied data analytics, or hit the recently closed receptacle in a blink. “We live in a world where the customer attention ...
When AI goes rogue: Moral debates could kill the hype
Venture capitalists lavished $10.8 billion on artificial intelligence and machine learning technology companies in 2017, according to PitchBook Data Inc. They’ve placed major bets that AI innovation can’t go far or fast enough to meet demand. But controversial use cases — like when algorithms decide the fate of the criminally tried — and the danger of coded-in ...
Cloud Native Foundation rallies contributors in plot to seize enterprise
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is “hoovering up” heavy-weight industry sponsors who leverage its popular open-source projects. Enterprise adoption of cloud-native architectures isn’t vrooming along at quite the same pace thanks to complexities, though interest is palpable. Can big tech dollars and a little end-user feedback finally manifest the simplified Kubernetes both camps crave for container orchestration ...
CloudNOW winners show many faces of women in tech
What is it about women who not only nab jobs but achieve excellence in technology? Silicon Valley’s sexist company cultures are practically a meme thanks to the stream of corroborating headlines. For women techies to advance despite this, they must be one-in-a-million mega STEM wonders, right? One winner at the CloudNOW 6th Annual Top 10 Women ...