As people around the world continue to work from remote locations, data is beginning to surface on how all of this is going. Some of the findings are a bit surprising. A survey has recently been released by Citrix Systems Inc. based on a 2,000-respondent sample of U.S. office workers polled in the first half ...

When Jim Whitehurst was named president of IBM Corp. in January, there was speculation in the media about how much of the open-source ethos he would bring to the company culture. It didn’t take long to find out. As part of the actions taken by IBM’s management team to address the new reality where most of ...

The coronavirus pandemic has provided many enterprises with an emergency light switch moment. One minute, most employees are working in the company office. The next minute, they are all forced to work remotely. No preparation, no planning, good luck. This situation, duplicated across thousands of global businesses large and small weeks ago, has required a closer ...

With the global coronavirus pandemic affecting millions, the immediate health effects are clear. What is less apparent is a blame and threat campaign quietly going on behind the scenes. General Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency and founder of IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., recently wrote a commentary for The Hill in which he ...

Security at the edge has been discussed for quite a while, but the timetable for solutions extended to years. That’s no longer true. With the outbreak of coronavirus and a migration of much of the global workforce away from internal corporate networks to connecting via mobile devices using home routers, the need for edge security ...

There’s plenty of tension in the database management world, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Vertica Systems Inc. has been playing in a high stakes poker game that, over its 15-year history, involved the world’s three largest public cloud providers, critical decisions by major enterprises over migrating data away from on-premises networks, and ...

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 ...