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In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that software would eat the world. Last month, two members of his investment firm Andreessen Horowitz made the case that cloud has been eating the enterprise’s money. In a post titled “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion …
VC and industry leaders say enterprise climate is promising for startups, but practitioner contact will be key
As veteran venture capitalists with lengthy experience working inside the technology startup community, Peter Wagner, founding partner at Wing Venture Capital, and Katie Drucker, head of business development and partnerships at Madrona Venture Group, have plenty of perspective on the ups and …
Keynote analysis: AWS Startup Showcase on the future-ready tech gaining enterprise traction
Startups considering which future technology trends to track and build on for the businesses of tomorrow might be wise to take note of research coming out of the University of California at Berkeley. The seven co-founders of Databricks Inc. were previously researchers …
HPE details the future for edge-to-cloud at Discover 2021
If numbers tell the story, then the current narrative for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. appears to be a tale of renewal and growth after a rocky stretch of revenue results over the past five years. The company’s second quarter fiscal earnings reported …
Staying power: the growing impact of PostgreSQL on enterprise marks Postgres Vision 2021
When the preliminary design of Ingres, the forerunner to PostgreSQL, was first tested at UC Berkeley, the president of the United States at the time was a man named Richard Nixon and tech pioneers Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were still teenagers. …
Databricks co-founder Ali Ghodsi joins stellar lineup for AWS Startup Showcase event on June 16
It began as an open-source project incubated by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and today it has become one of the hottest startups in the tech world, with a $28 billion valuation and a highly anticipated initial public offering in …
Supply chain software hack, ransomware attacks underscore need for extra vigilance in IT
When terms like supply chain, nation-state actors and ransomware become mainstream topics of national conversation, it’s probably a good time to take cybersecurity even more seriously. Over the past six months, a compromise of third-party software used to protect sensitive networks in …
Cisco builds next-gen operational model for the hybrid cloud
If there is a singular example that shows how the cloud is paving the way for a new operating model where virtually everything will be delivered as-a-service, consider the mobile banking app. Applications for banking services were already gathering steam before COVID-19. …
Watch live: Networking automation on the menu for Cisco’s Future Cloud event, June 2
Major companies do not go through the trouble of developing new products without some measure of confidence that customers want them. In this regard, the flurry of announcements rolled out by Cisco Systems Inc. at its Cisco Live event in March offered …
Pure1 enhancements deliver monitoring and AI-driven recommendations for IT
Pure1, a platform for storage management and support first introduced by Pure Storage Inc. in 2015, has received a significant update to help manage the demands of modern IT. The company recently announced its new and improved Pure1 Digital Experience. Pure Storage users …