The public sector is traditionally last to adopt new technology. Convoluted regulations, long-winded approvals processes, and a general reluctance to step away from tried-and-true procedures have kept many agencies in the Dark Ages compared to their enterprise counterparts. However, an aging workforce, systems that are approaching end-of-life, and a realization of the huge benefits that can be obtained ...

Pedal bike enthusiasts are athletes, and among devotees there can be a cynicism for e-bikes, as if riding one is somehow cheating. Until recently, independent bicycle dealers avoided the trend as well, preferring to stick to selling low-tech, old-school bikes. But e-bike specialty stores are not concerned, as they look beyond the traditional market to appeal to a ...

The lyrics of the Jan and Dean song “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena” might need a remix as e-bikes gain in popularity, and retirees take to the streets on two wheels. As the first e-scooter fatality hits the headlines, industry experts warn that regulations and infrastructure must catch up with mandates already established in countries across Europe. “All ...

The marriage of development and operations gave us DevOps, and now the happy twosome has become a threesome as security slips into the mix, creating development-security-operations, known as DevSecOps. As ever smarter cyberattackers bypass perimeter fence security solutions, data analytics companies bake security solutions into platforms and switch from reactive to proactive monitoring and troubleshooting. Announcing a cloud ...

Pitney Bowes Inc. ruled the mailroom back when information sharing required an envelope and a trip through the postal service, but its signature metering machines are now gathering dust as marketing, mail and commerce take place on virtual platforms. Determined not to join its postage meters as a relic of the past, the snail mail pioneer ...

From its beginning as a time management app for developer operations, PagerDuty Inc. has been user-centric, focusing on the needs of the operations team. Now the company is applying the power of artificial intelligence to its stockpile of event data, enabling real-time decision making at ground level. “Our focus is really on people and teams,” ...

Hyperconverged infrastructure has hit the mainstream, and the industry is moving toward a multicloud environment where customization and flexibility are key. Keeping ahead in such a fast-paced environment means listening to what the end user needs and constantly innovating to meet what the marketplace demands. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are working together to meet ...

Mix-and-match cloud services have become “la mode du jour,” as companies adopt multicloud strategies that enable picking and choosing providers and services to match specific workload needs. “In the last 24 months, enterprises went from being a single cloud to pervasive multicloud,” said Joe Kinsella (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of cloud management platform company CloudHealth Technologies Inc. “It’s a ...

Tape is the granddaddy of storage methods. Cheap, secure and durable, it has helped store data since the dawn of modern computing. But far from fading away, tape is proving a resilient solution in the storage marketplace. Predictions of 480 terabyte compressed capacity on a single cartridge make tape storage as relevant in today’s virtual marketplace as ...

Coming off a stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings report, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Patrick Osborne (pictured), vice president and general manager of big data and secondary storage at HPE, spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and David Floyer (@dfloyer), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld conference in Las Vegas. They discussed the relevance of data ...