In February, Red Hat Inc. announced that it had closed the transaction to acquire StackRox, the Kubernetes and container security solution, as part of the company’s move to expand its security management offerings. “We’re investing in things like role-based access control and so on,” said Ashesh Badani (pictured, right), senior vice president of cloud platforms at ...

The cloud has changed how businesses operate, and open-source tools have driven this transition. As the cloud landscape itself starts to shift toward hybrid models and the edge, open source remains a crucial tool for managing changing cloud environments. “Our customers have environments that are on-premises, in the cloud, and all the way out to ...

The year 2020 has brought many unprecedented challenges — like wildfires millions of acres in size or a global pandemic that required schools around the world to quickly design and deploy remote learning solutions. Cloud scalability is one asset that can be invaluable in tackling some of these problems, according to Rebecca Weekly (pictured), senior director of ...

During the 2020 U.S. elections, voters mailed in more than 65 million ballots to lock in their vote. However, lack of consistency across the public sector — with voting and election security standards varying across state lines or missing altogether — may have been a risk to voters’ faith in the process. “People need to ...

Many business leaders appreciate the on-demand resources and scalability potential of the cloud, but they must also address the difficulty of controlling the associated costs. The situation becomes even more complex when those who care most about managing cloud expenses are not always aware of who has cloud purchasing authority in a company, what they buy and ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world, many business leaders had no choice but to have as many members of their workforce stay productive from home as possible. That solution quickly emerged as the safest option, particularly as infection rates and fatalities rose around the globe. However, that swift change required leaders to think differently ...

The ongoing cloud transformation of the business world has companies adopting a variety of cloud-native tech — like container platform Kubernetes — to take full advantage of cloud computing. One of the most significant shifts that has come as a result has been the adoption of tech-like dynamic provisioning, which allows businesses to create container-native ...

Many of today’s leaders view business digitization as essential for remaining competitive in the marketplace. This realization led to the formation of dedicated business operations, or BizOps, teams. However, those groups often find it difficult to measure the return on investment of digitization efforts or achieve the desired outcomes. “I think a lot of us ...

The proliferation of data means modern businesses often collect information about their operations at machine-scale. Increasingly, these companies need new tools that ensure company stakeholders have the analysis they need to make informed business decisions. Tech leaders, unsatisfied with current approaches to software development, are creating new frameworks that bring together data from across a ...

Companies are adopting new security solutions to manage a growing remote workforce — like identity access management, cloud security and endpoint security. The sudden turn to remote work, however, has meant that human-scale solutions aren’t always workable and companies are looking to machine-scale tech as a result. As you move from human scale to machine scale, ...