If the U.S. public sector still believed it had a few more years to migrate operations to the cloud, that impression was quickly dispelled over the course of a few days in March. As a global pandemic forced the closure of schools, offices and retail businesses, public sector officials turned to major technology providers for ...

The story of ThoughtSpot Inc., a $1.95 billion business analytics company, is about amplifying a data-driven culture, about using search to radically transform finding information, about democratizing the process of obtaining answers instantly from a vast sea of data. But perhaps more than anything else, it is a story about change. “Change, as much as ...

The release of Ansible 2.10 in September contained a number of enhancements for the Red Hat Inc. automation tool. In conjunction with the release, Red Hat also announced Certified Ansible Content Collections, a distribution format for Ansible content. Developers can use collections to package and distribute roles, modules, plugins and playbooks. In other words, it ...

In normal times, National Exascale Day on October 18 would be the appropriate occasion to hug a scientist and thank them for their hard work. But hugs are strongly discouraged these days, so recognition will have to come in different forms. A celebration of major strides in exascale, or high-performance computing, might be a good ...

Where business operations and technology functions intersect goes to the heart of data-driven decision-making for driving critical outcomes. This is the guiding principle behind BizOps, a framework for organization teams to store, analyze and report on data in a way that meets expectations and gets results. During “BizOps Manifesto Unveiled” — an online event hosted ...

Enterprises have embraced data analytics because the right information has become critical to making the right decisions at the right time. But the process can be time consuming and complex. What if the answer could be generated instantly by merely typing a specific question into a search bar? One company providing exactly this kind of ...

As a deadly pandemic swept across the globe in early 2020, the impact was felt as strongly by the public sector as the private. Both quickly grasped a critical lesson in migrating to online platforms: Speed and scale matter. Healthcare organizations, government agencies and educational institutions were suddenly forced to provide essential services while leveraging ...

The global pandemic has been a catalyst for motivating businesses to move rapidly onto digital platforms. What remains to be seen is how companies serving those businesses will adapt to the rapid pace of change. “Over the next year or two we’re going to see this mass forcing function in the tech industry that’s going ...

Speed matters in a time of crisis, and when a global pandemic forced much of the world to suddenly move online, cloud infrastructure configurations had to be scaled up quickly. This placed a premium on automated tools, which was one reason why Ansible, a solution from Red Hat Inc. that allowed enterprise-wide protocols to be ...

The enterprise world is in the midst of an “Ops” revolution, ranging from DevOps and ITOps to AIOps and SecOps. At the core, this concept embodies the connection between business operations and technology functions, which has led a coalition of industry leaders, under the guidance of Broadcom Inc., to create an umbrella framework over all ...