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Watch live, exclusive interviews and analysis at Dell Technologies World
With a monumental merger in the rear-view mirror, Dell Technologies Inc. has seemingly settled into its new position as a massive conglomerate of storage, networking and software services. Having acquired EMC and majority shares of VMware Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc., and returning to Wall Street after going private for five years, Dell has weathered the ...
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Raising AI: Do parents make better AI systems for modern business?
Part truth, part sci-fi, the notion of rogue artificial intelligence is gaining a lot of attention — for good reason. As the creators of AI, humans hold responsibility over sentient machines in a manner similar to parental duties. But as AI matures into programs that can spawn and train themselves, things become less explainable by humans ...
AI can unlock human potential in workforce, says Infor CEO
It’s a season of opportunity for Infor Inc. The software maker specializing in enterprise resource planning is flush with funding and acquisitions, but most importantly human potential. That’s the theme of Infor’s trade show this year, as chief executive officer Charles Phillips (pictured) begins to unveil the fruits of Infor’s labor in the fields of artificial intelligence ...
BuildGroup raises $330M to cure short-termism for tech startups
To profit or to thrive? There’s a difference in these two measures of entrepreneurial success, and BuildGroup Management LLC is putting millions into the latter. Announcing a $330 million funding round, holding company BuildGroup is seeding its long-term mission to nurture enterprise software startups with staying power. With a 20-year outlook on its investments, BuildGroup ...
Prepping for the bubble burst, Pure Storage upgrades with AI tech, key partners at Accelerate 2018
With unicorn status, all-flash storage array maker Pure Storage Inc. has quite a reputation to maintain since launching its initial public offering in 2015. In a market where it’s increasingly difficult for a company to operate as a completely independent storage company, what’s the benefit of remaining independent in the age of hyperconvergence? And what will ...
Balancing act: Informatica straddles on-prem needs with cloud data at Informatica World 2018
Now that the data warehousing craze has converted to public cloud mania, how is data integrator Informatica LLC innovating its business model to survive the changing tides? Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE is at Informatica World, currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Watch live for exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news ...
The dawn of micro-data centers will aid edge computing, says Lenovo exec
When Kim Stevenson (pictured) joined Lenovo Group Ltd last year, the technology company known mostly for smartphone manufacturing was considered an underdog in the world of data centers for enterprise computing, and that’s exactly what attracted her to the gig. Now the senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions Division at ...
Applying old world smarts to new world tech, Red Hat thrives in cloud modernity
Having earned the faith of analysts and investors, Red Hat Inc.’s traction in cloud services makes it unique amongst open-source platform providers. A company that’s spanned the rise of groundbreaking open-source initiatives, from Linux to Kubernetes, Red Hat’s long been positioning itself for this moment of success. Now that the enterprise is adopting cloud computing ...
John Donahoe reflects on first year as ServiceNow CEO
As the new CEO of ServiceNow Inc., John Donahoe (pictured) is tasked with moving the company through a new growth phase. The software platform provider has dominated in help desk solutions for the information technology sector, now setting sights on other departments within the enterprise. From human resources to marketing, ServiceNow wants to enable digital transformations across ...
ServiceNow bets on AI, defies market limitations at Knowledge 2018
When experts thought it couldn’t be done, ServiceNow Inc. dominated as an information technology help desk platform to blow through market limitations to take on additional lines of business. As ServiceNow strives to hit the $5-billion valuation mark, can this enterprise software powerhouse take on its new competitors across its newly targeted markets and maintain ...