Vertica, an analytic database management software company and a division of Micro Focus International PLC, kicked off its virtual Big Data Conference today after a four-year hiatus. In his keynote remarks, Colin Mahony, Vertica’s senior vice president and general manager, provided details of the firm’s latest 10.0 release and announced a partnership with Google LLC, according ...

At the Open Source Summit in San Diego last summer, a representative from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation enthusiastically declared that open-source software was entering its “golden age.” This raises two questions: What will that “golden age” look like, and how will open source deal with its success? The evidence for open-source popularity is hard to dispute. ...

Within the past month, two organizations released reports documenting why having a cloud data protection strategy will be increasingly critical in the near future. The “2020 Thales Data Threat Report,” with analysis by IDC Research Inc., revealed that organizations are reaching a tipping point when it comes to storing and securing data in the cloud. ...

The list of concerns around the use of artificial intelligence seems to grow with every passing week. Issues around bias, the use of AI for deepfake videos and audio, misinformation, governmental surveillance, security and failure of the technology to properly identify the simplest of objects have created a cacophony of concern about the technology’s long-term future. One software ...

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. When Pure Storage Inc. began to get signals from its contacts in China that a virus was spreading throughout the country and shutting down plants, the all-flash data storage hardware and software provider began taking steps to minimize the impact to its supply chain. As the coronavirus ...

Ellie Mae Inc. bills itself as the “leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry,” but there is a lot more to its technology story. The software company, which processes more than 35% of U.S. mortgage applications, has emerged as the corporate “electronic Mae” in the financial world. Unlike Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, ...

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 ...