Scot Petersen

LAS VEGAS—With Amazon Web Services doubling down on serverless computing and development, the pressure is on application performance monitoring (APM) partners to keep up the pace. AWS Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels announced several new tools and services for serverless in his AWS Re:Invent 2018 keynote this week. Those included Ruby language support for the […]

LAS VEGAS—Along with death and taxes, there is one more irrefutable truth: Amazon Web Services does not sit still. The company again wowed attendees at its Re:Invent conference here with dozens of new products and services, pushing the envelope of what is fast, easy or even possible in the cloud. The model is working. AWS […]

LAS VEGAS–Amazon Web Services is teaming with satellite services provider DigitalGlobe and manufacturer Lockheed Martin on a venture to bring satellite data “down to Earth.” At AWS Re:Invent here, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS Ground Station, a new service that will be housed at AWS Cloud Regions around the globe. Lockheed’s contribution is called […]

Oracle recently wrapped up its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, where it announced several updates to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). But Oracle was not done there with new features to lure enterprises to its cloud. This week at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas, Oracle is introducing new high-performance computing (HPC) instances for OCI. […]

NEW YORK—By now, it’s pretty much a cliché to say that all companies should be technology companies. But in the case of banks and financial services these days, it’s true. Many finance companies are early adopters of new technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and Kubernetes as well as leaders in open-source development. And […]

Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH (pictured), is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., where she sees patients in pediatric endocrinology. She spends most of her time doing research in medical informatics and health IT, on “how to optimize and make the EHR [Electronic Health Record] less […]

LAS VEGAS—Just a few years ago VMware was counted out as a legacy technology provider that was being overrun by Docker containers and declared a non-player in the cloud after famously selling off vCloud Air.  Today things are much different since VMware is back at the center of the cloud picture—that is the fast-evolving multi-cloud […]

LAS VEGAS—The message was clear at this year’s Black Hat conference: The “culture,” for lack of a better term, of security must change, or society faces living in a world of perpetual cyber-risk.  “We need to be more ambitious, strategic and collaborative in our approach to defense,” said keynote speaker Parisa Tabriz, director of engineering […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google’s enterprise cloud strategy came into focus this week at its third annual Next conference. The search giant announced products that, for the first time, make it a player in the hybrid cloud space. Google’s cloud technology has already helped many vendors establish their own hybrid cloud services—such as Red Hat, IBM, VMware, Pivotal […]

In the area of “smart” buildings and cities, internet of things applications are starting to appear that accentuate convenience and customer satisfaction rather than new revenue streams.  Otis Elevator, for example, is looking to make sure passengers in its elevators get a smooth ride while giving building owners more insight into their infrastructure and making […]