When the COVID-19 virus began to spread widely across the U.S. early in 2020, concerned citizens turned to an online database set up and maintained by Johns Hopkins University of Medicine for the most up-to-date data. That useful interface continues to rely heavily on information supplied by the geospatial pioneer Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., ...

After four straight days of interviews on two TV production sets and more than 100 interviews at a Las Vegas venue, theCUBE’s coverage of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent 2021 is in the books. AWS made a significant number of announcements and covered a great deal of ground during what has become one of the ...

Self-service should be easy and fast. A new artificial intelligence-powered solution from Informatica LLC for AWS Lake Formation is designed with these principles in mind. As part of AWS re:Invent 2021, enterprise data management specialist Informatica introduced a way to democratize access to cloud data lakes in Amazon Web Services Inc. using Lake Formation, a ...

Sometimes it takes just two basic data points for the U.S. government to fully grasp the scale of cloud security today. It was the end of November, during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Zscaler Inc.’s compliance executive was suddenly asked a question. “I was testifying in front ...

The world is facing a global talent shortage, and the solution just might come from an ambitious effort launched by an organization in Africa. The African Leadership Group is working on a scalable solution for connecting highly skilled, diverse global talent to careers in tech. The talent matching effort, called The Room, will leverage Amazon ...

Regulation of the funding source for roads, bridges, school systems, water treatment plants, and even airports has moved to the cloud. The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is a self-regulatory organization that oversees how municipal bonds are bought, sold or traded. It sets the rules for a $4 trillion market that is largely responsible for funding U.S. ...

The AWS Marketplace will celebrate its 10-year anniversary next April, and consistent with the ever-changing world of cloud computing and enterprise technology, it too has evolved over time. “Back then it was a very simple e-commerce website,” said Stephen Orban (pictured, right), general manager for AWS Marketplace and control services at AWS. “We’ve come an ...

In the aftermath of many new services introduced by Amazon Web Services Inc. at the recently concluded re:Invent 2021, an important question has been raised: Is the cloud beginning to build technical debt? The re:Invent keynote from Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels, in particular, was packed with a host of announcements, ranging from an ...

Infosys Ltd. is continuing to grow its Cobalt base of reference architectures to help customers accelerate services and solutions in the cloud. When the company launched its Cobalt suite in summer 2020, it offered over 14,000 cloud assets and 200 industry blueprints. Those numbers have expanded over the past year, as Infosys grew its business ...

Since 1951, Iron Mountain Inc. has been focused on paper retention, and the 70-year-old firm has made a transition to the Digital Age as well. The company now operates in 58 countries with 730 million cubic feet of volume held in over 1,400 facilities. It provides storage and information management services that include a significant ...