Headlines for the tech industry over the past year have not all been good. Between growing concern about privacy and users’ control over their data, to allegations of antitrust violations by some of the world’s largest tech companies, the industry has increasingly found itself confronted with negative press. This is the shadow that looms over ...

Chief information officers and air traffic controllers have a lot in common. At any given time, controllers at the world’s busiest airports must account for planes in the sky trying to land, planes seeking to take off, the positioning of aircraft on the runways, and external factors, such as wind or bad weather. Today’s CIO ...

When Great Britain’s National Health Service announced last month that VMware Inc. would provide it with access to cloud resources on Amazon Web Services, it was another chapter in VMware’s lengthy history of work with organizations in the public sector. “Some of our earliest customers were in the public sector,” said Sanjay Poonen (pictured), chief ...

Is the federal government finally ripe for technological disruption? As public agencies prepare to implement new cloud-driven technologies, coupled with a younger, more tech-savvy workforce, it could be setting the stage for significant change in the federal government’s information-technology profile. “That’s the biggest story in tech in D.C. in a long time — the role ...

Company executives at the Cisco Live event in San Diego kicked off the conference today by pointing out that this year marked the 30th anniversary of the event. It was actually called “Networkers” back in 1989, and Cisco Systems Inc. has shown it aims to survive the significant transition that has taken place in the technology world from ...

This article, and hundreds of millions of others, are viewable online across the globe because 30 years ago a computer scientist took a break from his research group’s work in particle physics to tinker with a new way to manage and share information. That group was the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN; the computer scientist was Tim ...

During a recent interview in advance of Cisco Systems Inc.’s major conference this month in San Diego, Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins plainly had a couple of things he wanted to get off his chest. One, people should not underestimate the complicated challenge Cisco has faced as a hardware company moving to the cloud, something ...

Whether it involves online search or troubleshooting a thorny systems error, the name of the game is speed. Yet, in a world where a navigation bar can deliver an answer for “today’s weather” or “the derivative of square root by sine X of first principles” in less than the blink of an eye, finding the ...

When does free technology become worth $10 trillion? When the company is Red Hat Inc. and its open-source software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux contribute to $10 trillion worth of global business revenues this year. That’s the conclusion from an International Data Corp. study released during the company’s major annual gathering in Boston ...

At the conclusion of the Red Hat Summit in Boston today, Red Hat Inc.’s chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, could be forgiven if he was feeling a little weary from being hugged. He was embraced by IBM Corp., whose own top executive, Ginni Rometty, took the stage and promised to keep Whitehurst’s company independent after shelling out $34 billion ...