Big steps since 2017, but plenty of improvements left for top cloud vendors

Here's what Gartner had to say about the six vendors that made the cut for the 2018 Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. 

By Alex Hickey • May 31, 2018

When 'everything is on fire,' chaos engineers rush to save tech infrastructure

During a network outage, they are the ones who "save the day," said Kolton Andrus, CEO and co-founder of Gremlin.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 30, 2018

Gartner drops 8 IaaS vendors off Magic Quadrant in favor of broader market players

While AWS, Microsoft and Google still lead, there were two notable differences from last year: only six vendors made the cut and market boundaries shifted to reflect more opportunities for vendors.

By Alex Hickey • May 30, 2018

US House bill would direct Commerce Department to study IoT devices

The SMART IoT Act would be the "first step" toward formalizing the federal government's relationship with the burgeoning industry.

By Chris Teale • May 24, 2018

All in the family: Meltdown, Spectre variants found

Variant 4 takes advantage of "speculative bypass," which grants a hacker access to stored memory in a CPU's stack.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 22, 2018

Shorter IoT battery creating more e-waste

The use of specialized, nonconforming parts for standard repairs contributes to the shortened lifespan of devices and, in turn, e-waste. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 21, 2018

After 50 years of Intel, Moore's Law is alive and well — sort of

For some experts, the pace of Moore's Law is not sustainable — technology innovation cannot maintain an exponential pace.

By Naomi Eide • May 18, 2018

No 'definite plan' to fix IRS hardware systems

Churn in federal CIO leadership and short tenures have held off long-term modernization efforts across agencies. 

By Alex Hickey • April 19, 2018

Microsoft offers IoT solution as answer to hardware security shortcomings

To take “cybersecurity from an art to a science,” Microsoft is engineering a more secure edge with Azure Sphere, according to President Brad Smith.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 17, 2018

How AppNexus is upgrading storage infrastructure to get ready for Kubernetes

A reduction in the number of servers being used translates to a reduction in spending, boosting the bottom line for the online advertising company.

By Alex Hickey • April 13, 2018

Tyson Foods using tax break to work on IT infrastructure

Moving from analog to digital will elevate Tyson's performance in the supply chain and introduce more transparency between products and customers.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 12, 2018

Why Microsoft is beefing up its IoT and AI cloud offerings

CEO Satya Nadella has hammered out a roadmap for the company centered on enterprise clients with a focus on artificial intelligence technologies. 

By Alex Hickey • April 12, 2018

US and China tiptoe around a trade war: What's tech to do?

After the first set of American tariffs on Chinese imports took effect Friday to the tune of $34 million, China quickly levied retaliatory tariffs of equal measure.

By Alex Hickey • Updated July 6, 2018

Google, Microsoft navigate southern hemisphere to grow cloud network

As Google boosts its global footprint in the cloud market, it's still missing from China — a market Alibaba dominates but AWS and Azure are slowly tapping. 

By Alex Hickey • April 4, 2018

Microsoft trails Cisco in the collaboration market even after a cloud boost

Despite so much of enterprise collaboration turning to the cloud, traditional, on-site solutions remain the ones to beat.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 28, 2018

Cities that don't embrace smart tech risk becoming a 'digital Rust Belt'

How cities use data to innovate and solve issues for residents is becoming more critical. After all, "data is the new bacon." 

By Chris Teale • March 28, 2018

Nvidia, Arm partner on deep learning chips for the IoT

The partnership was announced a day after news of Google, Samsung and Qualcomm joining forces with around 80 other tech companies for an open-source chip design.

By Alex Hickey • March 28, 2018

Atlassian moved its entire infrastructure to AWS for cloud-native customers

The collaboration company's old infrastructure simply did not support cloud-based customers, which make up 75% of all new customers.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 20, 2018

Intel CEO: We're addressing Meltdown, Spectre flaws with hardware 'partitions'

As for software updates, 100% of impacted Intel products from the last five years have been issued microcode updates.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 16, 2018

4 answers you need to know about the dawn of 1Tbps DDoS attacks

Historically smaller DDoS attacks were not able to harness the same kind of bandwidth accessible to memcached servers seen in the recent attacks.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 15, 2018

McDonald's mobile app triggers worker discontent

Employees say the new ordering technology is causing more trouble than it's worth, with chaos ensuing alongside self-service kiosks, mobile app ordering and traditional checkouts.

By Robert Williams • March 15, 2018

How Coca-Cola migrated from a single data warehouse to global application deployment

After choosing the microservices architecture best suited for the company, Coca-Cola turned to a DevOps-based model.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 14, 2018

WeWork, Capital One welcome Amazon's Alexa to the enterprise

Embedding Alexa in businesses looks like a boon for Amazon. Already dominant in the enterprise with AWS, this move broadly expands its potential market. 

By Naomi Eide • March 13, 2018

Take a seat GitHub: Service provider suffers record 1.7Tbps DDoS attack

Despite the massive attack, no outages were reported by the targeted service provider.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 6, 2018

How Maersk proved its 'herculean resilience' after malware devastation

For 10 days following Nyetya, the shipping giant operated without reliable IT and had to keep the lights on while overhauling basic infrastructure.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 6, 2018