The growth of superclouds, abstraction layers above and across hyperscale infrastructure, is leading to the creation of firms specifically designed to provide such services. One of these is Prosimo.io, a company that built its business around supporting a multicloud infrastructure strategy for delivering applications. It is a prime example of how the supercloud is filling ...

Technology has unintended consequences, and this reality is getting much of the security world’s focus as events play out this year. There was news at the Black Hat 2022 cybersecurity conference this week about creating an open standard for analyzing enterprise data, innovative new security tools and a declaration by the former head of government cybersecurity that ...

The internet we know today, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, is dominated by companies providing services in exchange for user data. Web3 represents the internet that may soon rise to prominence, characterized by decentralized finance, blockchain-driven applications and participation in the metaverse. The world of cryptocurrencies has already seen its share of highs and lows. ...

This year’s Red Hat Summit gathering in early May provided an opportunity to step back from the enterprise computing treadmill and assess the long-term implications of where network innovation is headed. Along with news surrounding an edge platform opportunity with General Motors Corp. and the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this year’s gathering ...

One message coming out of AWS re:Inforce in July was that every transaction at scale has become the “new perimeter.” This will significantly test enterprise security, as organizations must contend with an expanding number of cloud services, infrastructure complexity, and an avalanche of small applications. There was a clear sense at the gathering in Boston ...

Despite the cloud’s numerous benefits, enterprise frustration is building over challenges compounded by the embrace of multicloud. This was one of the conclusions documented by F5 Inc. in its annual “State of Application Strategy” report that was released this year. With nearly every business invested in a muticloud model, employing 2.16 different environments on average, ...

There have been legendary rivalries among tech companies over decades: Amazon versus Microsoft and Google in cloud, Salesforce versus Oracle and SAP, Twitch versus YouTube, Tesla versus the tech divisions of an entire automotive industry. Now there’s a growing contest between enterprise heavyweights Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. that promises to deliver its own fireworks. ...

The information technology industry has a complexity problem, and it is leading to deeper conversations among thought leaders around how to solve it. The days of building applications on one server using a monolithic architecture have transformed into developing numerous microservices, packaging them into containers, and orchestrating the entire production using Kubernetes in a distributed ...

It was through leaps in technology that the U.S. space program was able to land humans on the Moon in 1969. Over half a century later, technology is again transforming the space industry in major ways. While commercialized space flight companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have captured a great deal of ...

DigitalBits is preparing to roll out a 100% decentralized exchange and open-source platform that is built on its own blockchain. DigitalBits is a protocol that can tokenize any asset on its blockchain. At the end of July, the company announced the NicoSwap decentralized exchange as an alternative to Uniswap, an open-source protocol for providing liquidity ...