If you can’t beat ’em, connect ’em. While brick-and-mortar retailers are by no means headed for imminent extinction, there is also no denying the significant shift in spending toward online sales. A recent survey showed that online shopping grew 14 percent versus a paltry two percent for brick-and-mortar sales in 2016. This is leading the retail ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced its multicloud management service called OneSphere last month, the company went to great lengths to describe it as a unified approach for public and on-premises private clouds. This flexibility is central to HPE’s strategy of tailoring its information technology portfolio to meet the varied needs of a diverse customer ...

As a cloud services provider, The Sourcing Company was looking for a hybrid platform that would deliver flexibility, agility and lower costs for its clients, which include a number of law firms. The company became an early customer of Microsoft Azure Stack when it was announced nearly three years ago and has embraced the automation and ...

The process to move massive (petabytes) of data into the cloud became easier when Amazon Web Services Inc. created Snowball, a truck-sized server that’s literally on wheels (Snowmobile). Load the data into Snowball, transport it to an AWS data center, and bring it back up in the cloud. But there is one key problem: The process ...

It’s one thing to have a large customer with 100,000 employees and perhaps 2,000 data centers. It’s another to land an account with more than 2 million employees and 6,100 data centers. Yet, that is the position in which data protection solutions provider Druva Inc. finds itself as the company was granted the authority to operate under ...

The gender gap in the technology industry is growing, and no one is quite sure what to do about it. The National Center for Education Statistics has reported that U.S. women earned only 18 percent of computer science degrees in 2015, and that number drops even lower when women of color are factored in. These ...

The move toward fast, serverless computing technology got a boost this month from Iguazio Systems Ltd. The data platform company (named from the Iguazu waterfalls in South America) announced the release of Nuclio, an open-source, multicloud serverless framework that claims faster-than-bare-metal speed. “We provide one platform, all the data services that Amazon has, or at least ...

Hybrid clouds, private clouds, public clouds, managed clouds. It’s a multicloud world now, and information technology customers are increasingly looking for new ways to manage and secure critical assets across multiple platforms. The problem is that many chief information officers either don’t know where all of the assets are stored or what the convoluted cloud ...

Founded two years ago to promote the adoption of containers, a virtual method for running distributed applications, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has since extended its support well beyond the Kubernetes container orchestration management system. The foundation now hosts 14 different open-source cloud-native projects and has attracted the biggest names in the industry, from Google LLC, IBM ...

In a confluence of fantasy with technology, premium program provider Home Box Office Inc. described this week how it used the Kubernetes container orchestration management system to solve scaling issues when millions logged on to watch Season 7 and the latest developments in the lands of Westeros and Essos on “Game of Thrones.” As loyal viewers of the popular show ...