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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 …
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 …
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 …
Google’s Kelsey Hightower: Kubernetes needs startups to thrive
Can the rising tide in open-source computing lift all the boats in the business? Kelsey Hightower (pictured), co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, thinks so. Hightower’s tolerant view on collaboration may have surprised even the …
As more applications get ‘cloudified,’ Kubernetes is key
As the largest project at the Linux Foundation, Kubernetes has seen marked growth in the past year. The open-source platform for managing container orchestration is piquing interest for software developers worldwide, enabling workload portability and supporting the new trend toward microservices in …
‘AI doesn’t run on software’: Michael Dell jockeys for an infrastructure takeover
The curious transformation of Dell Technologies Inc. began with a decision to go private, scaling down to become a more agile player in the cloud computing era. Yet the subsequent merger with EMC Corp.’s federation of storage and virtualization products meant that …
Reinventing the city bus with self-driving pods and AI
Can humans be transported around a city as efficiently as data is moved around a computing network? One pioneering startup thinks so, engineering an intelligent bus line that works similarly to packet switching on the internet. “We divided the bus in sections, …
Hortonworks bets on AI, automation in GDPR-ready services
With just five weeks until full enforcement, the pending laws of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation may have been the focus for the keynote at DataWorks Summit in Berlin, but the broader story of data governance spotlights the challenges facing …
Rethinking DevOps for a more programmable network
Where the term DevOps once represented the whole of software creation and deployment within business operations, the expansive realm of cloud computing is spurring hardwired networks to become more programmable. To help businesses build teams capable of addressing the matters of migrating, …
Big data’s revival is here, domain expertise is returning, say analysts
The term “big data” may have lost favor in recent years, but its byproducts have quietly been cultivating a revival. Through mainstream fascination (and fear) of machine intelligence, that swamp of stockpiled data is finally finding its footing in the business world. …