When the news broke last month that Microsoft Corp. would be awarded the hotly contested $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to provide cloud services for the Department of Defense, much of the ensuing publicity focused on the size of the deal and the rejection of a bid by Amazon Web Services Inc. Lost in the ...

When Schneider Electric SE, the €26-billion French multinational energy company, wanted to embrace digital transformation, it decided the effort should be focused on more than just its own internal processes. So the firm created its own digital unit with an eye toward supporting the entire business, including the security and the overall technology needs of ...

With more enterprise-technology choices than ever before, customers today call the shots. This is why customer relationships are no longer merely managed in the fast-moving digital world, but they must be deeply understood to the point of obsession. And it is valuable insight for a top executive who manages commercial channel sales for one of ...

Despite the growing use of artificial-intelligence tools on a global basis, there is no universal code of ethics to govern its use. Should there be one? That’s a key question the technology industry is beginning to wrestle with as the use of AI generates results that aren’t always positive. The technology has been used for ...

From the standpoint of one security partner, Microsoft Corp. is a very different company today. As the current president and chief executive officer of Barracuda Networks Inc., BJ Jenkins (pictured) can recall a time when a visit to the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was anything but a welcoming experience. “I joke with people that ...

Microsoft Corp. announced new enhancements to its personal digital assistant, Cortana, this week, and the changes appear directly aimed at improving productivity in the workplace. The announcements from Microsoft include a Cortana-driven Play My Emails service in Outlook for business communications, along with new support for scheduling meetings using the digital assistant. “There were some interesting announcements ...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, IBM Corp. is increasingly finding itself having to fill gaps. There are skills gaps for data scientists who build training models, organizational gaps where companies struggle over how AI should be built and implemented in the enterprise, and credibility gaps as adoption has grown, but many people are still ...

Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements on Monday that involved cross-platform deployment of Azure Cloud services, analytics and an expanded edge infrastructure, but a secondary story may well be how the company is redefining its role in the tech community at large. “Where does Microsoft sit in this landscape?” asked Stu Miniman, co-host of ...

Business software maker Cohesity Inc. showcased new integrations today, aiming to simplify data backup and protection across hybrid cloud computing platforms on Monday as part of a series of announcements during Microsoft Ignite 2019. The new integrations include cloud native backup and cloud snapshot management tools for Microsoft Azure. The latest solutions are designed to further Cohesity’s ...

When a company scores a single $10 billion contract, it can generate quite a tailwind. That’s the total projected amount of a deal between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government when the company was awarded a hard-fought contract last month to provide technology services for the Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI ...