2020 has been a year of change and adjustment in ways that few could have imagined. The transformed world has also meant dealing with a new reality for chief information officers in most organizations as well. “The role of the CIO just gets more important as we enable new ways of working,” said Jen Felch ...

Corn, wheat, barley, soybeans, oats … and data. They all require storage like any other commodity, yet Pure Storage Inc. has taken a different point of view when it comes to handling data. Several years ago, the enterprise computing world appeared headed down a path where storage would be commoditized itself, viewed as nothing more ...

The world feels like it has been irrevocably changed in the past few months, but that may be just the warmup act. Before long, new disruptions in key areas such as finance, media and global communications could soon take center stage. Disruption was very much on the minds of speakers this week at EmTech Next, ...

He was the eighth employee hired at payments platform Stripe Inc. in 2011 and watched as the business grew to earn a $20 billion valuation in less than a decade. But for Anurag Goel, founder and chief executive officer of Render Services Inc., one thing that didn’t change was the repetitive nature of his work as a ...

It was the third interaction on a customer service call to his cable company that sent Don Schuerman (pictured, right) over the top. Schuerman, chief technology officer of Pegasystems Inc., needed to increase his home bandwidth as a result of being suddenly forced, along with much of the world, to work remotely this spring. The experience ...

After moving from a live in-person event to a digital-only experience in May, IBM Think 2020 is officially in the books. Yet, the lessons learned from putting on three days of livestreamed content and interactive sessions still resonate among IBM Corp. staff, and that starts with the turnout. “We had over 100,000 clients and business ...

With its position as a key provider of service and processor solutions to the world’s largest companies, Intel Corp. can see trends coming from miles away. That’s the kind of perspective that over half a century in the technology business can provide. The company saw the coming of cloud computing, and now it is witnessing ...

Even before the global pandemic, many industries were experiencing rapid growth in datasets. Yet, the healthcare industry is currently dealing with a data explosion of unprecedented size, and this has sharpened the tech industry’s focus on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to handle it. When it comes to making AI real, it’s ...

Docker Inc.’s annual gathering, DockerCon, happened to land on the calendar at the same time as a number of major societal changes. A global pandemic forced previously planned events, including DockerCon, to become virtual. The dramatic shift for many from working in offices to working at home suddenly put a premium on an efficient and reliable online infrastructure. ...

At a time when connecting with a community of users in person has become significantly limited, Docker Inc. and other enterprises have relied on an active network to keep communications channels open. This is one reason why Docker took the time to recognize a number of its users from around the world during DockerCon Live ...