Two seconds. Sometimes, that’s all it takes to make a difference in the competitive cruise line business where booking volume fuels profits and growth. Which is why Carnival Cruise Line, a division of Carnival Corp., spends a considerable amount of time monitoring network performance and resolving issues fast. “If our home page loads in five ...

Last year, Accenture Plc mistakenly allowed four Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 databases containing customer information and confidential application program interface data to be exposed to public download. Fortunately, the exposure was caught in September and the assets were secured, but the incident was a sharp reminder that the cloud carries cybersecurity risks of its own. ...

When Fortinet Inc. recently announced a broad set of solutions for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers, the latest integrations gave the network security company the largest breadth of security applications within the AWS Marketplace. The news was part of Fortinet’s cloud-based approach to security, which included sandboxing capabilities for the first time on the AWS ...

The avalanche of data currently flowing through the enterprise world has created its own vocabulary. Categories of size are now necessary to explain how information technology systems handle massive amounts of information. In an effort to challenge conventional thinking around how file storage is handled, one company has branded itself as WekaIO Inc., named after ...

A glance at the portfolio of companies for the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Greylock Partners pretty much says it all. With a focus on startups and growth stage businesses, Greylock has successfully parlayed investments in areas of technology that have spawned some of the industry’s major players, including Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Red ...

It’s one thing to build complex software applications for containers’ bundled technology programs. It’s another to get them to talk to each other. The complexities surrounding the Kubernetes container orchestration management system can be a challenge for even the most experienced developer. This is why the service mesh, a layer for managing communication and monitoring traffic across ...

The year-long embrace of the Kubernetes container orchestration management system across the enterprise culminated in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s announcement last month of its Elastic Container Service for the open-source storage platform. The announcement was not a major surprise, given the news in August that AWS would be joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, but it ...

Veeam Software Inc.’s position as a data protection and availability provider for enterprise information technology has provided it with a front-row seat to the cloud revolution. The company experienced 80 percent growth in its cloud business last year, and now Veeam executives are seeing a major movement within the healthcare industry toward cloud adoption. “More ...

It’s one thing to develop a new computer game with really cool graphics and simulated action, but it’s another to apply processing power to save human lives. So when medical research scientists at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases went looking for a computer that could handle an unfathomable amount of data from 36,000 volunteers ...

The Kubernetes bandwagon continues to roll merrily along. Less than three months after the container orchestration management system released version 1.8, the latest version (1.9) is scheduled to drop today. Following closely on the heels of this month’s KubeCon event in Austin, Texas, the container storage orchestration platform’s foundation also gained 31 new members, and a recent ...