As the chairman of a startup company that just launched out of stealth, John Chambers, former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc. and CEO of J2 Ventures, is delighted about the prospects for his fledgling business and passionate about the need for educational change in his own country. Led by a number of former ...

Splunk Inc. first joined the Amazon Web Services Inc. Partner Network in 2012, and the two companies have been pursuing opportunities to collaborate ever since. This collaboration has included ways that security products and services offered by both firms can be effectively integrated into enterprise customer environments. In addition to joint projects involving the use ...

Part of the success formula in today’s fast-paced tech world is coming out with tools before the industry knows it needs them. For a company such as HashiCorp Inc., a bet on providing products to feed the trend to DevOps that melds application development with information technology operations staff is beginning to pay off. Developers ...

Artificial intelligence is getting personal. Advances in massive data gathering and processing, coupled with wholesale leaps in machine processing power are setting the stage for a world where AI could closely simulate the human brain and become ingrained in many aspects of daily life. How soon that becomes reality could depend a lot on the humans ...

The security operations center in many large companies looks much like NASA’s Mission Control Center — lots of consoles displaying reams of data and harried personnel swiveling between screens to analyze threats or manage incident response. Therefore, it’s only fitting that Splunk Inc.’s newly launched enhancement for the Security Operations Suite is called Mission Control. ...

In September, IBM Corp. announced enhancements for its Cloud Pak for Data offering, designed to leverage a data operations or DataOps methodology to help customers prepare large amounts of information for the application of artificial intelligence. It’s a gap in the enterprise information-technology world, which IBM believes must be filled for many companies to utilize ...

IBM Corp. has built an extensive artificial-intelligence practice with Watson and a portfolio of cognitive tools. The company has also taken major steps to drive AI and data analysis within IBM itself. IBM has created an internal mobile app that leveraged Cognos Analytics and allowed its top executives to access critical data anytime and anyplace, according ...

When Bayview Asset Management LLC, a Florida-based firm focused on a variety of mortgage-related assets, confronted efficiency challenges with its mushrooming back-office functions, the firm wondered if robotic process automation could offer a viable solution. Bayview turned to the business process automation firm Accelirate Inc. for help in finding a process that could help manage a ...

Artificial intelligence is not only exposing a digital skills gap, but it’s also threatening to turn a lot of jobs into software. That’s according to Craig Le Clair (pictured), vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., whose new book, “Invisible Robots in the Quiet of the Night,” documents the reality of advancing automation through interviews with workers in ...

Commvault Systems Inc. may have made significant changes in its executive ranks since 2018, but the company hasn’t lost its institutional memory. Although Commvault’s longtime Chief Executive Officer Bob Hammer stepped away in March, the man who served with him as chief operating officer for 20 years has remained on the company’s board. Al Bunte (pictured, ...