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Vertical clouds help enterprises correct chaos caused by ‘random acts of cloud usage’
Hidden amongst other raging trends such as edge, artificial intelligence and automation, the rise of vertical clouds seems like an obvious prediction to dominate in 2021. But cloud adoption is complex. And as cloud becomes a business imperative rather than a...
Dheeraj Pandey foresees new computing and cloud challenges, faster digital change
He came to the United States with only $900 in his pocket and is now retired from the company he built into a $1.6 billion hyperconverged infrastructure software juggernaut. Dheeraj Pandey (pictured) stepped down from his role as co-founder and chief executive officer...
Cloud has handed developers new power, and they’re using it to shape the future
Cloud computing and open-source software have given developers the upper hand when it comes to decision-making. With customers and employees hopping up and down impatiently demanding apps like baby birds demanding worms, the approvals process has been discarded in the...
Google parent Alphabet cancels Loon project to deliver internet by hot air balloon
Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. said today that it’s giving up on the idea of using high-altitude hot air balloons to deliver internet connectivity to the world’s remotest regions. Alphabet confirmed in a blog post that it’s winding down its nine-year-old...
Pandemic’s economic impact doesn’t deter prominent investor from major stake in Nutanix
Companies undergoing a major transition don’t generally see major investment, as venture capitalists often prefer to take a cautious approach before diving in. That’s why Bain Capital’s investment of $750 million in Nutanix Inc. last year received a great deal of...
Data processing unit offers new architectural solution for cloud data center networks
One of the maxims in the technology world is that much of what powered innovation over the past decade will likely be replaced by something new in the current decade. The rise of the data processing unit provides a prime example of this reality. By more efficiently...
Parler stays offline after judge blocks attempt to reinstate it on Amazon
Shunned social media site Parler Inc. has had its demand to be reinstated on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud hosting platform thrown out by a Washington judge. Judge Barbara Rothstein said today that after a hearing last week, she has declined to grant Parler a...
Automation is an essential driver of post-pandemic business value
Robotic process automation was already experiencing strong growth in 2019. By the middle of 2020, the pandemic had accelerated the automation mandate, pushing adoption up 27%. And the trend is not slowing anytime soon, with Allied Market Research forecasting a...
Facing down the data onslaught with stateful architecture
The age of big data taught us that there is a timeline to data management: Store the data, analyze it, then model predictions. Unfortunately, that time-consuming process just doesn’t cut it with the staggering amounts of data currently being generated. Petabytes of...