A lot of companies are hopping on the exciting cloud bandwagon, but not all of them are taking full operational advantage of public cloud technologies, according to one cloud engineering support company. “Companies are embracing the public cloud at an incredible rate,” said John Purcell (pictured), chief product officer at DoiT International USA Inc. “They’ve bought into ...

In the past, organizations perceived the cloud as a monolithic environment where a specific set of use cases could be carried out. Today, the enterprise is entering a phase with cloud continuums, on which several purpose-built solutions can drive growth in the private and public sectors. “From now on, whenever people talk about cloud, it’s actually ...

The shifting waves of enterprise computing always seem to uncover exciting new possibilities. One of those is time series data, collected over several repeating points in time. InfluxData Inc., the company behind the open-source time series database, InfluxDB, has grand plans for enterprises looking to build real-time applications for analytics and IoT in less time ...

Ideas, alongside information, rule the world. LaunchDarkly started in 2014 when cloud-based feature management was a fledgling field. Today, the company is valued at $3 billion and is No. 47 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for 2021. “The worst thing you could do is build something that nobody wants, which is really frustrating,” said Edith Harbaugh (pictured), ...

The trend of multi-sector, accelerated digital transformation recently gripped the Asia-Pacific region. Now, it looks like Latin America is poised to continue in that same trajectory, reaping the myriad of benefits to be had, according to Jaime Valles (pictured), vice president for Latin America at Amazon Web Services Inc. “Across the region, we’re seeing this momentum ...

While it’s easy for organizations to mull over the idea of digital transformation through cloud migration, a lot of the actual practice is delicate. Today, many companies have their core applications and data resources on infrastructures like mainframes, creating the need to gradually move both peripheral and core resources. “While we have seen an acceleration of ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have been forced to employ a distributed working style powered by technologies like hybrid cloud networks and edge computing. Zscaler Inc.’s solutions, including Zscaler Private Access, allow companies to transform and perform at scale, from a security and compliance standpoint, without missing a beat, according to Lisa ...

The working partnership between VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services has borne many fruits over the years, including VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud, a regulatory and compliance maintenance solution. “There’s strong alignment across the field with new go-to-market teams on both sides and a powerful resell agreement that enables AWS sellers to take VMware Cloud on AWS and all ...

Given the explosion of new distributed computing frameworks, including hybrid and multicloud, the enterprise is also seeing a rise in new strains of ransomware and DDoS attacks across on-premises and cloud repositories. A more innovative, streamlined and focused approach to cybersecurity, with technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning at the helm, will allow enterprises ...

The pandemic brought a vast number of realities to the forefront. Distributed computing (in remote work scenarios, for example) is no longer a nice-to-have option, but an imperative decision. Several enabling technologies, such as hybrid cloud and 5G connectivity, are finally tying in together and enabling the new standard in distributed computing — which is ...