As the chief information officer at a major law firm, Jason Thomas (pictured) is besieged by vendors and constantly under pressure to plan for future needs while making bets on technology that will handle demand and remain secure. It’s a balancing act to say the least, which is why Thomas devotes the time necessary to ...

Ten years ago, most corporate networks were fortified castles with alligators in the moat and a drawbridge to be raised at any hint of an attack. That notion of cybersecurity protection changed as more corporate users steered an increasing amount of network traffic to the internet. With the introduction of cloud and mobile devices to ...

The field of robotic process automation is hot, if recent data compiled by Enterprise Technology Research is any indication. The major firms that provide RPA, which involves the use of software robots to automate repetitive mundane tasks, are showing signs of major growth, based on user panel responses from more than 1,000 information-technology practitioners summarized by ETR. ...

Most technology executives would be quite satisfied to build a business in 10 years with more than 5,000 employees, 14,000 customers, at least $1 billion in annual revenue, and become an established, publicly traded company. Most executives aren’t Dheeraj Pandey. As the chairman and chief executive officer of Nutanix Inc., Pandey (pictured) has guided his firm ...

Automation took center stage at the Nutanix Inc. .NEXT gathering in Europe this week with the news that the company’s hyperconverged infrastructure platform would be integrated with ServiceNow’s IT Operations Management solution to automate private cloud workflows. Nutanix also released the results of a survey, which revealed that virtually all information technology decision-makers who responded ...

Until 1988, any woman who wanted a business loan in the U.S. needed a male relative to co-sign for her. Thirty-one years later, women are founding startup companies on their own, but good luck getting investment money to do it. “We’re still getting 2%, maybe 3% of venture capital funding, so something is amiss,” Amy Sorrells (pictured, ...

With more than 3,700 employees, more than 10,000 customers and $600 million in annual revenue, IFS AB probably should be more widely known than it is. The Swedish company’s enterprise resource planning products are used around the world by manufacturing, oil and gas drilling, aerospace, defense and construction clients. “This is the largest enterprise resource ...

The tech locomotive, which has been steaming along for quite a while, is showing early signs that it’s about to tap the brakes. That’s one conclusion from an early look at the “2H19 Pulse Check Survey” compiled by Enterprise Technology Research, which captures spending intentions and draws from 4,500 practitioners surveyed by the organization on ...

Conversational artificial intelligence is coming. The only question is how soon users will get to experience a natural, pleasant and machine-driven discussion. Boomi, a Dell Technologies Inc. company, took a big step toward answering that question last week with the announcement that it would add conversational AI to its portfolio as a personalized way to communicate ...

The open-source movement has a history that captures both its community spirit and renegade impact. Sometimes, that history even involves a yapping animal. In Linux, the “biff” command notifies users when mail arrives and identifies the deliverer. Was “biff” a cleverly conceived acronym for a remarkably sophisticated programming language? No. It was named after a ...