Cloudflare outage highlights the internet's fragility

"Our network operates as an extension of our customers' networks," said Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming. If "we're down, they're down."

By Samantha Schwartz • July 3, 2019

Open-box machine learning for AIOps solves 'black-box' mysteries

With the promises of transparency and control, Open Box Machine Learning may be the future of algorithmic logic.

June 25, 2019

Gartner: The top 5 personal technologies empowering digital business transformation

Innovations in personal technology present opportunity — and risk — for enterprises, Gartner's Annette Jump writes.

By Annette Jump • June 10, 2019

Google updates enterprise-focused Google Glass after two years of experimentation

When the wearables hit the market, they were met with a heavy side of ridicule over privacy and function.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 21, 2019

PaaS market, impossible to win, will double in size

There is no clear winner of the PaaS market as most vendors are narrowing their focus on "a single fit-for-purpose" xPaaS offering, Gartner said. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 14, 2019

Hardware as a service makes inroads beyond printers

HaaS is become appealing to companies that don't want to pay for in-house IT, especially in the retail/wholesale sector.

By Jen A. Miller • May 1, 2019

In financial services, migrating to the cloud requires flexibility and sensitivity

The sector has wavered toward cloud acceptance, weaving it into services when customers — and compliance standards — permit.

By Naomi Eide • April 26, 2019

Where hybrid cloud systems do — and do not — work

It's impractical to move a large organization's entire legacy systems into the cloud. With so much on-prem technology it would struggle to move to the cloud within the century, one expert said.

By Jen A. Miller • April 23, 2019

Reliability at heart of Lyft and Uber's tech, IPOs reveal

Reliable technology service providers set the foundation for optimal operations, trustworthy security and a five-star customer rating after drop-off.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 15, 2019

5G: The great warehouse enabler

Greater bandwidth can accommodate up to a million sensors and grease the skids for technology adoption in warehouses.

By Craig Guillot • April 4, 2019

As 5G looms, most hospitals watch from the sidelines

"If you don't have a reliable network that takes in information in lickety-split time, how are you going to do healthcare?" asked Shafiq Rab, SVP and CIO at Rush.

By Rebecca Pifer • March 22, 2019

Apple goes to work with mobile enterprise push

Part of its push is in inking deals with big name enterprise vendors and creating business application offerings compatible with iOS.

By Naomi Eide • March 21, 2019

The root of Facebook's no good, very bad day: 'Server configuration change'

"The difference between being down for hours or days versus minutes or seconds is the difference between a solid disaster recovery plan and one that is outdated, barely tested or even non-existent," said Zerto's Steve Blow. 

By Samantha Schwartz • March 14, 2019

On-premise servers persist in 98% of businesses, even with cloud hype

"Even though a new technology might be the buzzword of the moment, the traditional technology never really went away," said Peter Tsai, senior technology analyst at Spiceworks.

By Naomi Eide • March 4, 2019

Value in mainframes? Depends on who you ask

Cost, skill and lack of agility or innovation hinder this baby boomer technology. That doesn't mean it is museum-bound.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 22, 2019

A $13B data center expansion will give Google a home in 24 states

"2019 marks the second year in a row we'll be growing faster outside of the Bay Area than in it," CEO Sundar Pichai said in a company blog post.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 14, 2019

How companies overspend millions on IT procurement

If a company doesn't know what it already has, it's easy to buy the same thing again — and again, and again.

By Jen A. Miller • Feb. 12, 2019

Wells Fargo's outage puts focus on data management modernization

The bank's data center underwent a backup plan after smoke detection launched automatic shutdown.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 11, 2019

Capital One's public cloud strategy at odds with industry

Other financial services firms turned toward private cloud adoption, where assets are protected by internal firewalls, easily earning regulator approval. Capital One is adopting the public cloud through AWS.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 31, 2019

2019 trends: The cloud journey is never complete

This year, even businesses well into a cloud migration will have to reassess what cloud computing means for their portfolios and near- and long-term strategies.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 8, 2019

Organizations look to cloud for infrastructure woes but not cost savings

More investments in business technology are congruently an investment in the cloud.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 21, 2018

Amazon digs into cloud hardware with on-prem racks, data center processors

Customers want the same APIs, tools, hardware and functionality between cloud and on-premise environments, the latter of which many aren't ready to retire yet. Amazon is responding. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 29, 2018

A lesson in chaos engineering as Black Friday, Cyber Monday loom

An hours-long outage could push a business into the red on the largest retail weekend of the year.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 21, 2018

Empowered developers, cost savings drive serverless computing adoption

Developers spend 30% to 40% of their time working on or waiting for infrastructure, and serverless computing allows them to turn their attention elsewhere.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 19, 2018

Cloud infrastructure services up on the year, down on the quarter

Quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue surpassed $17 billion, including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, according to Synergy Research Group. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2018