At its annual user conference, TIBCO Software (TIBX) announced a series of new cloud offerings that give customers the tools to successfully deploy and manage all of their data in the cloud.

When a service with 1.15 billion users is not working, what are users to do? The answer is to shift to Twitter and other social media sites and talk about the fact that Facebook is down. Many users have responded with humor rather than angst or...

The amazing thing isn't that systems like the healthcare.gov government web site can fail in spectacular fashion, says Dr. Richard Cook. It's that it doesn't happen more often. Cook, an expert on failures in complex systems, says it's human nature...

As communications shift to the cloud, it's creating new types of requirements that older security models just cannot meet. Next-generation security can help. Bill Kleyman looks at some of these new types of security products.

What happens when engineers become leaders? Tim O'Reilly examined the topic using an approach familiar to data center managers: the failure analysis. O'Reilly, a leading technology visionary,discussed his failures and what he has learned from them.

Teradata rolled out solutions to facilitate data analysis - the Aster Discovery Platform - part of a new generation of solutions that includes Aster SQL-GR, a graph engine, and the Teradata SNAP Framework (Teradata Aster Seamless Network Analytic...

You don't know what you don't know, according to data center consultant David Boston. "No matter how well the data center is planned, we still find single points of failure in almost all assessments,” he said.

The NSA's massive data center in Utah has been plagued by electrical problems that have delayed the opening of the facility. The Wall Street Journal reports that there have been 10 incidents of arc flash "meltdowns" that have damaged equipment.