Brendan Gregg, Intel Fellow and system expert, argues that eBPF can prevent future-Crowdstrike-like disasters. Others aren’t so sure. In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike Windows security fiasco, security experts and developers alike are looking for a safer way to run low-level security programs. In a recent blog post, Brendan Gregg, a well-regarded system performance expert and Intel Fellow, suggests we can keep computers from crashing due to bad software updates, even those updates that...

Is there room for another hyper-cloud company? Market-leading content delivery network (CDN) power Akamai, after its purchase of Linode, a developer-friendly, Linux-based, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, believes so. Now, with the $900 million purchase done and dusted, Akamai's revealing its plan for Akamai Connected Cloud to challenge Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. To do that, Akamai starts by building on its existing CDN constellation of 4,200...

Database management is a pain. Database migration is a major pain – and Amazon Web Services (AWS) knows it. The hyperscaler enabled its users to migrate their data without too much blood, sweat and tears with its 2016's AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), but now the company is aiming to make it even easier and cheaper with AWS DMS Serverless. The problem it addresses is that to migrate databases, engineers must do a lot of grunt work. Besides cleaning the database of duplicate and...

A long time ago, in an IT company far, far away, I would carry in a Compaq Portable so I could get my work done. Today, while the PC may have changed, not much else has when it comes to IT and the cloud — and especially shadow IT. Today, as Dr. Robert (Bobby) Blumofe, Akamai's CTO and executive vice president, said, "I used to say that there are two kinds of enterprises: those that use cloud and know it, and those that use cloud and don’t know it. My point was that your developers are using...

Today, the vast majority of AI and machine learning (ML) work happens on the cloud, but will new AI/ML PC chips change that, and if so, will those chips negatively impact cloud providers? When Panos Panay, Microsoft's chief product officer in charge of Windows and Microsoft hardware, announced at AMD’s CES 2023 keynote, "AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows, quite literally, people pay attention." Panay is Microsoft's main man for Windows. He meets with Microsoft CEO Satya...