In the game of poker, it’s called a “showdown” when two or more players reach the final round of betting and all must show their cards. With IBM Corp.’s announcements this week focused on artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud solutions, 5G and edge computing, the technology giant is showing some cards it hasn’t been playing before. ...

Coming into its Summit Virtual Experience at the end of April, Red Hat Inc. clearly had a checklist of items it wanted to accomplish. Take virtual machines and bring them into containers? Check. Announce a new version of OpenShift with software to help developers manage application workloads? Check. Create a single control point for cluster ...

For practitioners whose business it is to facilitate interaction between companies and communities, these are indeed interesting times. Large in-person conferences, industry cocktail receptions with live music, and blogger lounges in hotel ballrooms where much of the tech world’s business gets done are so 2019. The new reality is live streaming or pre-recorded content, chat ...

When Gainsight Inc. Chief Executive Nick Mehta decided to announce that his firm’s upcoming online-only conference had set a record for registrations, he didn’t send out a self-congratulatory, dry company memo. He went on a video stream from his home before the entire company and had his kids pie him in the face. “The world wants to see CEOs ...

Almost overnight, the world has gone from office first to remote first. Will it go back? If predictions by some people are right, one of the outcomes from the global pandemic will be that companies currently structured around owning and maintaining an office infrastructure are going to be taking a hard look at whether that ...

There is no “aftermath” yet in the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus rages on. Yet there is already a great deal of discussion around one particular topic — biosecurity — that will likely be a significant focus of attention in the months ahead. Most scientists believe that COVID-19 originated in animals before being transmitted to ...

In the open-source world, a tiny seed can grow into a robust tree very quickly. Ansible, an open-source software provisioning and application deployment tool, began as a project in 2012. That sprouted a separate company a year later, which was ultimately purchased by Red Hat Inc. in 2015 for over $100 million. Since then, Ansible has ...

When Vodafone India and Idea Cellular merged in 2018, the two firms quickly arrived at a mutual goal. The plan was to link more than 100 data centers into a central cloud using open-source infrastructure based on Red Hat Inc.’s OpenStack. It was an ambitious project given that the newly combined telecommunications company — Vodafone ...

With its annual summit scheduled to be held at the end of April in virtual mode, Red Hat Inc. warmed up the enterprise crowd in advance of the main act with last week’s release of a major update for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Red Hat’s message accompanying the latest 8.2 release for ...

There is a line in a song written years ago by Bob Dylan that says: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” But to know which way the wind is blowing for Kubernetes, just ask Clayton Coleman. As OpenShift chief architect at Red Hat Inc., Coleman (pictured) has become one of ...