MariaDB Corp., which develops and sells an enterprise version of the open-source MariaDB database management system, today announced a $25 million funding round targeted specifically at its new cloud database, MariaDB SkySQL. The Series C round, the company’s first financing in more than two years but an extension of its last $27 million Series C round, ...

As a company leader, you have probably read countless articles during shelter-in-place on the benefits and downsides of remote working. There have also been a lot of articles on steps to reopen offices under social distancing guidelines, and your company is several months into remote working. Now it’s time to start longer-term planning to determine ...

In the business world, an unpredictable event with potentially severe consequences is known as a “black swan.” One tech investment firm – Sequoia Capital – characterized the COVID-19 global pandemic as precisely this kind of event in 2020. “It will take considerable time — perhaps several quarters — before we can be confident that the ...

Two important tenets surrounding the cloud revolution are that it should not be viewed as a destination, but rather a means to enable new ways of thinking, and that the technology should not lock a user into a single solution. The serverless data sharing startup Vendia Inc., which exited stealth mode on Tuesday, is a ...

In what some regard as a highly competitive race for dominance among key players in the Robotic Process Automation or RPA space, the stakes became a little higher in June when Automation Anywhere Inc. hired a major tech industry executive to oversee the firm’s global sales and manage its partner ecosystem. Chris Riley (pictured), joined ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause widespread disruption around the world, and especially in the United States, large technology companies are working overtime to meet public-sector organizational needs.  Amazon Web Services Inc., the leader in public cloud, is expanding its efforts to support global governments in fighting COVID-19, as well as helping its partners ...

There is so much jargon surrounding the cloud-native world these days that the developer community’s DZone took the time to capture a great deal of it. That’s what a landscape with $66 billion in funding and a total market capitalization of more than $17 trillion will bring. There is containerization, microservices, continuous deployment and delivery. ...

As Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gears up for its HPE Discover Virtual Experience, taking place on June 23, the tech industry is dealing with the ups and downs of a global pandemic that affects every industry around the world. The effects of the coronavirus have even hit HPE leadership directly as Chief Executive Officer Antonio ...

The global spread of COVID-19 has driven organizations to rethink the way they work and operate. Many organizations think they have a working cloud strategy or are simple lacking one altogether. Both scenarios have been particularly poignant since the start of the pandemic as overall information technology services have been stressed with the influx of remote ...

As COVID-19 continues to affect the operating culture of almost every enterprise tech company around the world, some organizations’ sales numbers remain intact and are even growing. Case in point: Veeam Software Corp. The company’s enterprise products, which include backup, disaster recovery, and intelligent data management software, have earned a reputation of “it just works” ...