Tresata Inc.’s company motto is “in data lies the power to enrich life,” and life certainly can use some enrichment these days. The firm, which specializes in predictive analytics software to deliver actionable business insight, has developed an app called COVID Active Transmission, or COAT, to predict the next hot spots for the coronavirus. By ...

In the theatrical world, a central actor might be the lead role in a film or play. In the enterprise, it’s the role technology can perform in bridging the gap between value creation and value capture. “We think of it in terms of bringing data to applications,” said Chris Wright (pictured), senior vice president and ...

Even in normal times, it would be unlikely that IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. would make news this week for the usual reasons. Red Hat kicked off its virtual Summit on Tuesday in an online format after being forced to cancel plans for its annual gathering in San Francisco due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Words matter and Red Hat Inc. has drawn a careful distinction between an open hybrid cloud and multicloud. According to the open-source software giant, now owned by IBM Corp., a hybrid cloud coordinates tasks running in different environments. Multicloud is simply using different cloud platforms, regardless of what tasks are needed. It’s an important difference ...

As people around the world continue to work from remote locations, data is beginning to surface on how all of this is going. Some of the findings are a bit surprising. A survey has recently been released by Citrix Systems Inc. based on a 2,000-respondent sample of U.S. office workers polled in the first half ...

When Jim Whitehurst was named president of IBM Corp. in January, there was speculation in the media about how much of the open-source ethos he would bring to the company culture. It didn’t take long to find out. As part of the actions taken by IBM’s management team to address the new reality where most of ...

The coronavirus pandemic has provided many enterprises with an emergency light switch moment. One minute, most employees are working in the company office. The next minute, they are all forced to work remotely. No preparation, no planning, good luck. This situation, duplicated across thousands of global businesses large and small weeks ago, has required a closer ...

With the global coronavirus pandemic affecting millions, the immediate health effects are clear. What is less apparent is a blame and threat campaign quietly going on behind the scenes. General Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency and founder of IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., recently wrote a commentary for The Hill in which he ...

Security at the edge has been discussed for quite a while, but the timetable for solutions extended to years. That’s no longer true. With the outbreak of coronavirus and a migration of much of the global workforce away from internal corporate networks to connecting via mobile devices using home routers, the need for edge security ...

There’s plenty of tension in the database management world, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Vertica Systems Inc. has been playing in a high stakes poker game that, over its 15-year history, involved the world’s three largest public cloud providers, critical decisions by major enterprises over migrating data away from on-premises networks, and ...