The winter holiday travel season brought a costly lesson in the need to modernize technology to adapt at scale. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Southwest Airlines says it faces $725 million to $825 million in losses from operational disruptions in December. The airline says it canceled more than 16,700 flights during […]
Sometimes everyone gets a pony after all. In this case, a group of major cloud providers each won a piece of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) project to provide services to the Department of Defense. The recent announcement by the Pentagon put to bed past legal fights over the project to update and provide […]
Increased regulatory oversight and the growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence have made the technology an escalating concern for industry and the masses. Questions about governance of AI took center stage last week at The AI Summit New York. During the conference, Priya Krishnan, director of product management with IBM Data and AI, addressed ways to […]
The leadership at Amazon.com and AWS seem to see world awash in data that can make the most from cloud-based, asynchronous architecture to keep up with escalating demands. Last week’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, held in-person and online, saw AWS CEO Adam Selipsky give a keynote that highlighted the vast mountains of data […]
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday a few days away, many e-commerce sites are already trying to ramp up traffic that converts to more sales — but what if lagging storefronts get in the way? In the early days of e-commerce, some retail sites crumbled during the holidays, suffering sluggish response times and crashes as […]
Through layoffs, firings, and mass resignations, some major players in tech and social media parted ways recently with thousands of employees, putting a flurry of tech talent back on the job market. These new expatriates from companies such as Meta, Twitter, and Amazon may have expertise in areas other businesses might want in their ranks. […]
A surprise livestream from the besieged country, and other speakers, gave a look at ways cybersecurity can affect tangible issues in the physical world.
The ways that the workplace has changed in recent years, becoming portable and virtual in many ways, may be part of lasting disruptions for the enterprise. That was the topic for a panel at Agora’s RTE2022 real-time engagement conference held online last week. The session looked at ways companies were forced to change to adapt […]
In a recent report issued by Forrester, ten trends stood out as shapers of how the cloud’s continued evolution as more organizations try leverage its potential. A core takeaway from the report was the theme that cloud strategies must be refined with cloud-native adoption being accelerated. Based on the report, even companies that already migrated […]
At a dinner conversation last week in New York with a small gathering of tech journalists, the CEOs of MongoDB and Box shared their thoughts on software, the future of work, and how the return to office is playing out. While individual companies make their own decisions amid shifting responses to the pandemic, there are […]