When the designers of Monopoly created a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for the iconic board game, the playing tool became synonymous with “getting a free pass.” As digital innovation steamrolls through the enterprise world, it is increasingly running into historical practice, including rules and regulations governing the proper handling of data and system ...

Sustainability is the new black. It’s possible to purchase a host of “sustainable” items today, from paper drinking straws to reusable produce bags. But do consumers really know whether something they buy is truly sustainably produced? Mastercard Inc. and Accenture LLP have combined forces to address this question by developing a supply chain solution that rewards sustainability ...

As one of the largest health benefits companies in the U.S., Anthem Inc. maintains a broad portfolio of plans and related services. That requires a sophisticated information-technology structure to support it, and a key element of Anthem’s approach is to provide its internal developers with the tools needed to keep operations running smoothly and meet ...

In a highly regulated space such as the pharmaceutical industry, the process of digital transformation has been slower than in other sectors. However, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG has been focused on changing this narrative in recent years as it embraced digital and data. “We are trying to reimagine medicine through user data and ...

When it comes to network integration, connectivity and workload management, CenturyLink Inc. has positioned itself squarely in the hybrid-cloud ecosystem. In August, the company announced the launch of its Private Cloud Service for VMware Inc. on AWS. CenturyLink has already seen use cases where its managed information-technology services and cloud connectivity expertise can help customers ...

When the internet was taking off in the 1990s, finding a web page was an exercise in time and patience. Then search engines, such as Yahoo and Google, came along, and rapidly accessing information became infinitely easier after that. Companies such as Alation Inc. are seeking to revolutionize cataloging enterprise data in much the same ...

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan once sang. In the world of enterprise technology, the wind is blowing toward the network edge. Just in the past month, the two largest public cloud players – Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. – announced major new initiatives around edge ...

In less than a month, the California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect. The new law regulates the handling of customer information by businesses and imposes fines on those firms that fail to comply. California’s new law, which applies to any company with more than $25 million in annual gross revenue, has businesses scrambling to locate and ...

Last week’s gathering at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas featured plenty of news about new cloud products and services, but there was also music — lots and lots of music. In his three-hour keynote address last Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy was accompanied by a live band who played a ...

One of the many announcements to come from the AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas last week was the general availability of Outposts, the company’s fully managed service to extend cloud infrastructure into the data center. There are a number of partners working with Amazon Web Services Inc. to implement Outposts for enterprise customers, among ...