Data is plentiful and insights are not. That’s the basic premise behind ThoughtSpot Inc., provider of big-data analytics that brings a different dynamic to business intelligence. Now in its eighth year and well capitalized, the company’s application of artificial intelligence and machine learning has given it a tailwind that has become even more significant over ...

For the first time that anyone can remember, the entire corporate world is staying home. With mandatory “shelter in place” orders because of the coronavirus pandemic covering not only the United States, but a sizable portion of the world, corporate executives are no longer running for airplanes or hailing cars between meetings. They are home, but ...

Citrix Systems Inc. is known for its virtual private networking, or VPN software, a technology very much in demand these days as much of the world’s employee base works from home. The company has been forced to adapt to the new realities of remote work itself, which has meant a close partnership between Citrix’s information ...

When it came to plans for the disruption brought by the coronavirus pandemic, Pure Storage Inc. was very fortunate indeed. Unlike other enterprises that were caught having to close offices on short notice in March, Pure had an early alert in January, based on its contacts in China, that it should prepare for significant business ...

The job of a site reliability engineer, also known as an SRE, is typically characterized as bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems, with a focus on creating reliable and scalable systems. What most SRE job descriptions fail to add is that the job also requires an ability similar to that of a firefighter ...

With every complicated business application that goes into production today, another case can be made for the low-code/no-code movement. The reason is that low-code and no-code platforms offer small components as an easier way to build larger application architectures. That’s becoming an increasingly attractive option for enterprises that must now develop software in-house, and one ...

There is a story about the time John Chambers (pictured), former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., had a conversation with Jack Welch, the legendary top executive for General Electric. At the time the two spoke in 2000, Cisco and Chambers were riding high. “He said: ‘John, you have a very good company,’” Chambers ...

In 2001, an executive at Red Hat Inc. who was then in charge of products and technologies for the open-source company urged his chief executive officer to make a big bet on big business with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL. Nineteen years and the company’s acquisition for $34 billion later, that executive is now running Red ...

Some companies in the tech world get bought and sold, like sports trading cards at an auction, and are never seen again. And then there are a fortunate few, such as Vertica Product Group, now part of Micro Focus International PLC, which survive and thrive. Despite some ups and downs along the way, Vertica is ...

As the coronavirus began to spread across the world in February, one of the companies that could track its migration on a daily basis was Cisco Systems Inc. That’s because the networking giant’s portfolio included Webex, a video collaboration tool. Suddenly, Cisco began to see a sharp rise in usage from China as businesses closed and ...