Almost overnight, the world has gone from office first to remote first. Will it go back? If predictions by some people are right, one of the outcomes from the global pandemic will be that companies currently structured around owning and maintaining an office infrastructure are going to be taking a hard look at whether that ...

There is no “aftermath” yet in the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus rages on. Yet there is already a great deal of discussion around one particular topic — biosecurity — that will likely be a significant focus of attention in the months ahead. Most scientists believe that COVID-19 originated in animals before being transmitted to ...

In the open-source world, a tiny seed can grow into a robust tree very quickly. Ansible, an open-source software provisioning and application deployment tool, began as a project in 2012. That sprouted a separate company a year later, which was ultimately purchased by Red Hat Inc. in 2015 for over $100 million. Since then, Ansible has ...

When Vodafone India and Idea Cellular merged in 2018, the two firms quickly arrived at a mutual goal. The plan was to link more than 100 data centers into a central cloud using open-source infrastructure based on Red Hat Inc.’s OpenStack. It was an ambitious project given that the newly combined telecommunications company — Vodafone ...

With its annual summit scheduled to be held at the end of April in virtual mode, Red Hat Inc. warmed up the enterprise crowd in advance of the main act with last week’s release of a major update for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Red Hat’s message accompanying the latest 8.2 release for ...

There is a line in a song written years ago by Bob Dylan that says: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” But to know which way the wind is blowing for Kubernetes, just ask Clayton Coleman. As OpenShift chief architect at Red Hat Inc., Coleman (pictured) has become one of ...

Tresata Inc.’s company motto is “in data lies the power to enrich life,” and life certainly can use some enrichment these days. The firm, which specializes in predictive analytics software to deliver actionable business insight, has developed an app called COVID Active Transmission, or COAT, to predict the next hot spots for the coronavirus. By ...

In the theatrical world, a central actor might be the lead role in a film or play. In the enterprise, it’s the role technology can perform in bridging the gap between value creation and value capture. “We think of it in terms of bringing data to applications,” said Chris Wright (pictured), senior vice president and ...

Even in normal times, it would be unlikely that IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. would make news this week for the usual reasons. Red Hat kicked off its virtual Summit on Tuesday in an online format after being forced to cancel plans for its annual gathering in San Francisco due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Words matter and Red Hat Inc. has drawn a careful distinction between an open hybrid cloud and multicloud. According to the open-source software giant, now owned by IBM Corp., a hybrid cloud coordinates tasks running in different environments. Multicloud is simply using different cloud platforms, regardless of what tasks are needed. It’s an important difference ...