Companies are spending to gear up work-from-home infrastructure as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic, but signs currently point to flat or reduced information technology budgets for the remainder of the year. That’s the good and bad news gathered from survey data provided by Enterprise Technology Research this week. The firm received information during the ...

Trends in technology can often be measured neatly in decades. From 2000 to 2010, the boom in software materialized. The period from 2010 to 2020 was all about cloud, hybrid computing and everything becoming as-a-service. Milin Desai (pictured), kicked off a new decade in January by becoming the chief executive officer of Sentry.io, and he ...

Artificial intelligence isn’t just the future of enterprise computing. It’s also the future of chipmaking giant Intel Corp. as well. With Intel’s growing data center business now ranked second behind its PC chip division, the company realized $3.5 billion from AI-related products in 2019. And with the acquisition of Nervana Systems, a young company noted ...

Rather than temporarily pull back from digital transformation, this may be an ideal time to hit the gas even harder. Before a global coronavirus outbreak severely disrupted the world’s economy, the enterprise world was steaming at full speed to adopt digital transformation strategies. While the current economic uncertainly may seem like a good time to ...

It means “superior force” in French, but for many businesses “force majeure” is a contractual clause that relieves parties from meeting agreed terms when events, such as the spread of coronavirus, reach epidemic proportions. The clause has become significant in recent days as major industry gatherings and music festivals must handle the reality that the ...

Digital communication as a productive medium is about to get the ultimate test. As the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, spreads around the globe, numerous large events and industry gatherings are being cancelled. Companies and schools are sending employees and students home, creating a dynamic where online communications will become more relied upon than ever ...

Like the major cloud platform providers, HYCU Inc. has shaped its enterprise strategy around keeping a foot in both the on-premises world and the cloud-based space. That strategy gained additional clarity recently with the announcement that HYCU would now support Microsoft Azure with its backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery services for the public cloud provider. ...

Soaring above the clouds means understanding how to fly, and one enterprise tech company has set out to train a squadron of cloud networking aces. Aviatrix Systems Inc. has launched a program to certify technical professionals and cloud practitioners in multicloud networking and security. The Aviatrix Certified Engineer, or ACE, program focuses on basic networking ...

Migration to a multicloud model starts out easy and can get rapidly harder as enterprises seek to optimize the new computing model. That’s just one of the messages that enterprise consultants, such as DXC Technology Co., have for clients. In November, DXC launched a multicloud automation, orchestration and governance solution for managed services delivery in ...

Not all major cloud providers are the same, and this simple realization can impact how network architects implement multicloud solutions. For a business such as Ellie Mae Inc., which processes 35% of mortgage applications in the United States, the nuances of network architecture can become especially important. Ellie Mae started out focused on one cloud, ...