Serverless computing is cloud-native, but not all cloud-native technologies are serverless. Some may assume that developers building modern applications must choose serverless or containers, a virtualized method for running distributed applications. But the Cloud Native Computing Foundation — home to Kubernetes, the popular open-source container orchestration platform — wants everyone to know it’s not partial ...

Cloud computing on-premises: fantasy or reality? The vast majority of companies want hybrid information technology. But many are already spoiled on public-cloud agility and elasticity. They’re not keen to settle for rusty old on-prem technology. That’s why so many providers (even Amazon Web Services Inc.) are rushing to market with “cloud on-prem” offerings. But what’s ...

With the spread of distributed software applications and multicloud, the computing network is coming under attack. It’s too slow; the infrastructure is outdated; it’s not intelligent. Legacies like Cisco Systems Inc. and lesser-known startups alike are repaving the path data takes from one point to another. Many are betting on software-defined wide area networking to burst the latency ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is tapping Silicon Valley for help eradicating crime. Like enterprises, the FBI is realizing how data analytics can speed it to crucial insights. It is taking some cues from enterprise analytics teams and also struggling to fit made-for-business software to its own mission. “What we’re used to doing is using ...

The slog from launch day to profitability is often a storied one for startups. Many entrepreneurs instinctively want to scale with abandon right out of the gate. This may lead to some ugly surprises down the road if they haven’t worked out kinks in the foundation, according to Manish Chandra (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Poshmark ...

Public-cloud and on-premises infrastructure vendors have proselytized very different gospels to customers. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that vendors can be biased and profit-driven. Now many customers are signaling that they’ll be resolutely hybrid for the foreseeable future. This is forcing vendors on both sides of the cloud aisle to think differently. “The ...

Even those who aren’t much for recreational robotics should take an interest in DeepRacer from Amazon Web Services Inc. The miniature self-driving cars use a form of artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning. The cars learn to drive through trial and error without massive, pre-loaded data sets. Think of all that could mean for AI inferencing across ...

Done right, data analytics can propel a project from seedling to salad, time-lapse video style. The right way sidesteps undifferentiated heavy lifting from the get-go. The wrong way toils in the basement building plumbing from scratch. This is clear in pharmaceutical research; the failure rate of projects begs for a shorter route from hypothesis to conclusion. Researchers ...

To the scowling, sleep-deprived developers sniping at Amazon Web Services Inc. for slacking on open source: AWS is fed up. It’s put together a team devoted to upping open-source activity and is steadily contributing new software. “We’re getting criticized for not making enough contributions,” said Adrian Cockcroft ‏(pictured), vice president of cloud architecture strategy at AWS. ...

There was a time when public entities with sensitive data thought they’d never move to public cloud. Then the Central Intelligence Agency endorsed cloud not despite security, but because of it. And so the tide turned. Government agencies now move to cloud for security, agility, and to help them do hard, high-stakes work. Case in ...