Manas Sarma
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Q&A: Dell responds to evolving IT demands with end-to-end services
For technology companies looking to verticalize around microservices, disparate customers have a bevy of industry-specific demands. Yet these customers may have more in common than expected. “If you can align scale with action in the portfolio that it’s so well-aligned to the trends in the industry, you’re representing an opportunity for a customer to select ...
Q&A: Creating new partnerships in a digital era
With modern technological advances, it’s sometimes easy to forget the people and partnerships that made it all happen. At Dell Technologies Inc., strategic team-ups with other organizations strive to focus on individuals. One example of this focus is Dell’s partnership with Deloitte on 3D prosthetics. One special story shared at this week’s Dell Technologies World is that ...
Q&A: Advice from Red Hat aided Google Anthos’ open-source journey
Even as Google has built one of the world’s most successful businesses on cloud computing, translating its innovations into enterprise-ready services has been a challenge in a competitive field. Now under new leadership and rebranded as Anthos, the contemporary Google Cloud Platform is the result of a series of decisions spanning open-source partnerships and storage technologies, ...
Q&A: Actionable intelligence helps orgs maximize customer engagement
In an ever-expanding enterprise ecosystem, customer experience is increasingly important because, after all, commerce doesn’t exist in a vacuum. As such, gauging customer engagement is a priority for all businesses in today’s digital era. Verint Systems Inc. is working to help organizations turn structured and unstructured customer data into insights by leveraging machine learning technology and advanced analytics. The company works ...
Q&A: IBM evolves quantum and edge computing as pendulum swings in IT
Despite the advances in computing over the past five decades, computers must still constantly adapt to meet evolving technologies and demands. IBM has addressed the need for faster and more-evolved tech with its Z mainframes and Power Systems, as well as its supercomputers, dubbed Summit and Sierra, which are designed for data and artificial intelligence. ...
IBM’s ‘big bet’ on Kubernetes is unifying cloud providers across platforms
Navigating cloud computing services can be difficult, especially when they come from multiple providers. Therefore, establishing a solid foundation becomes even more important in maintaining successful operations across today’s multicloud landscape. For IBM, that foundation is Kubernetes, the open-source tool for managing containerized software applications at scale. “IBM has taken a big bet on Kubernetes two ...
Innovation lives at the corner of logic and creativity
The ever-changing business landscape forces companies to innovate rapidly and effectively. However, innovation is a broadly defined and overused term, which ultimately makes it a trite concept, the opposite of the desired effect. “Innovation is what we need to do with modern technology to enable the enterprise and the business world and be creative humans ...
Pro tips for effective digital transformations and investments
In today’s technology-dominant society, it might be tempting to think current tech exists in a vacuum. However, technology governs and is governed by the world around us, and these external factors make all the difference when it comes to the total impact of disrupted markets and the investments in modern computing. “I think what’s driving that, some ...
Air Bud learning new tricks in hybrid cloud for streaming entertainment
The explosion of streaming entertainment allows the public to view unprecedented amounts of content easier than ever, but it also necessitates more backups and, subsequently, costlier methods of storing data. For the company behind the popular “Air Bud” films, Air Bud Entertainment, storing and maintaining media assets has led to a hybrid computing strategy with secondary storage provider Cohesity ...