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HashiCorp and Palo Alto team up to help users adopt multicloud infrastructure with zero-trust security solutions

Businesses are moving to multicloud adoption, with 81% of HashiCorp Inc.’s “State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2022” respondents reporting using more than one cloud, with larger organizations more likely to use multicloud solutions. Palo Alto Networks Inc. and HashiCorp Inc. recently released an updated cloud operating model, allowing users to use products across thousands of enterprises. “Palo ...

Ascend.io speeds up data pipelines and analytics, increases engagement with developers

Today’s data teams must face the costs of maintaining fragmented solutions with lots of seams between tools.  They deal with decreased productivity and velocity of data teams, as well as challenges in hiring and retaining data engineering expertise.  Sean Knapp (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Ascension Labs Inc., aims to solve these challenges ...

The maturation of supercloud drives the need for new tooling

Supercloud is quickly becoming a reality for enterprises and their business-critical applications.  Organizations must be able to assemble infrastructure services from multiple cloud providers to deliver optimal results for their business. “You need consistent architecture, obviously not just for one cloud, but for any cloud,” said Steve Mullaney (pictured), president and chief executive officer of ...

MariaDB helps on-prem orgs leverage cloud database as a path to the future

In today’s real-time world, companies must deal with data in a different way than they did 10 years ago. Enterprise technology and the amount of data being collected have evolved and increased. Modern companies need something that can support their core business practices and deliverables, as well as propel their IT into the future. MariaDB ...
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Five predictions on the future of infrastructure and operations

Infrastructure and operations or I&O leaders are constantly challenged to deliver value while optimizing costs, a job that becomes even more difficult during tough economic times. Cutting costs in response to the current economic turmoil will only get organizations so far and may create problems later. Organizations must make flexible medium- to long-term plans that can ...
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Innovation hotspots warm up AWS re:Invent

Massive throngs turned out for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s massive post-pandemic re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. As with its previous shows, AWS did not disappoint, with its laundry list of new and improved products, services and features. For a company its size, AWS continued to do a remarkable job pushing the innovation pedal ...

Frank Slootman on Snowflake’s blossoming partnership with AWS

Snowflake Inc. built its data warehouse business on top of Amazon Web Services. In the early days, the company looked at AWS as a platform to remove the hassle of managing infrastructure, while at the same time enabling virtually infinite scaling of resources. That allowed Snowflake to rethink database architecture entirely to exploit the native ...

Informatica tightens integration with AWS Redshift and SageMaker

Informatica Corp. is extending its alliance with Amazon Web Services Inc. today with the announcement of a new set of cloud data management services that are intended to make it easier for nontechnical users to upload and manipulate data in AWS’ Redshift cloud data warehouse. Informatica said its Data Loader software, which is a free tool ...
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Why a recession is great for companies with high cloud computing bills

Finding ways to save money on cloud computing bills is advantageous in any economic climate. But it’s an especially smart initiative to undertake during economic downturns. The reason is not just that businesses often need to scale back financially to remain fiscally healthy during recessions. It’s also that, when demand for cloud services decreases – ...
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Embrace the IT circular economy to support a sustainable device lifecycle

Despite the common belief that data center operations and the cloud generate information technology’s most significant environmental impacts, the embodied carbon of endpoint devices accounts for nearly half of overall IT greenhouse gas emissions in most enterprises. As digital business accelerates, the use of corporate endpoints and peripherals continues to grow exponentially. Consequently, managing the environmental ...