The growth of major cloud providers in size and influence has had a ripple effect on the technology industry. A prime example of this can be seen in databases. An endorsement from a major cloud provider can ensure that a particular database gains significant inroads into the enterprise IT fabric with long-term benefit. “If you ...

When Congress declared in 2004 that October would be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it likely could not have anticipated the global threat landscape online users face today. A new study released in October by cybersecurity firm Surfshark Inc. reported that there were 108 million accounts breached worldwide in the third quarter of 2022 alone, a 70% ...

After introducing a number of new services for machine learning and data analytics on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. doubled down today with a host of new tools aimed at providing what one top executive described as a “future-proof” data strategy. In a keynote address led by Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of database, analytics and ...

When the online financial processing company Stripe Inc. got its start in 2010, the company found a niche by providing merchants with a simple way to accept revenue from customers. Twelve years later, Stripe has moved beyond payments as its sole offering into new status as a comprehensive financial services provider. “What Stripe did was ...

The pace of major announcements picked up significantly on Tuesday, the second of a four-day AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas. The cloud giant released several new offerings in custom silicon, machine learning, serverless computing and data integration. The growing number of services from AWS and its leading role in the public cloud are reshaping ...

Data management topped the agenda for Amazon Web Services during the first two days of the cloud giant’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The company made a series of announcements designed to provide its cloud customers with hardware and software solutions for managing an ever-expanding realm of data. “Managing the scale and growth of ...

The $38 billion business that became Databricks Inc. started with the swipe of a credit card. The card belonged to Ali Ghodsi, Databricks’ chief executive officer, and he and his co-founders believed in 2013 that the quick and easy purchase of cloud storage on Amazon Web Services Inc. would pave the way toward faster customer adoption ...

When what was then called Red Hat Linux first appeared in 1994, Gunnar Hellekson was working as a student systems administrator for Drew University. Nearly three decades later, Hellekson (pictured) is general manager of the Enterprise Linux Business unit at Red Hat Inc. and has become a key voice within the open-source community. The past ...

There were several announcements from Dell Technologies Inc. in November designed to strengthen security for enterprises concerned about protecting critical data in a multicloud environment. The announcements involved a new PowerProtect appliance, enhancements for Dell’s APEX storage services, and an agreement to use Google Cloud for cyber recovery. Surrounding the news was a clear message from ...

The safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile increasingly depends on high-performance computing. This reality was highlighted last year when the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a subcontract to Dell Technologies Inc. for additional supercomputing systems. The contract, CTS-2, provided computing capacity for the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence ...