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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 …
Ellie Mae’s acquisitions and outlook send it along the multicloud journey
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 …
Pandemic pullback: Remote-work investment won’t fully offset IT budget declines
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 …
Code for the code: tools for measuring and monitoring app performance
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 …
Intel’s innovative approach to data encryption could advance AI and machine learning
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 …
Despite economic chaos, it’s time to push digital transformation, says marketing expert
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 …
Virus-related cancellations bring ‘force majeure’ for contracts into play
It means “superior force” in French, but for many businesses “force majeure” is a contractual clause that relieves parties from meeting agreed terms when events, such as the spread of coronavirus, reach epidemic proportions. The clause has become significant in recent days …
Will digital communications fill the gap as coronavirus sends millions home?
Digital communication as a productive medium is about to get the ultimate test. As the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, spreads around the globe, numerous large events and industry gatherings are being cancelled. Companies and schools are sending employees and students home, …
HYCU supports Azure for data resilience as part of its multicloud strategy
Like the major cloud platform providers, HYCU Inc. has shaped its enterprise strategy around keeping a foot in both the on-premises world and the cloud-based space. That strategy gained additional clarity recently with the announcement that HYCU would now support Microsoft Azure …
Back to school: Aviatrix certifies tech professionals in multicloud networking
Soaring above the clouds means understanding how to fly, and one enterprise tech company has set out to train a squadron of cloud networking aces. Aviatrix Systems Inc. has launched a program to certify technical professionals and cloud practitioners in multicloud networking …