The .NEXT annual conference for Nutanix Inc. is being held in Anaheim, California, this week, mere steps away from Disneyland, so it was only a mild surprise when attendees saw the “Star Wars” films’ Luke Skywalker, played by actor Mark Hamill, on the keynote stage. Hamill’s appearance drove home an important point for the company. ...

From his position as the chief technology officer for Red Hat Inc., Chris Wright (pictured) can see a future when self-tuning platforms will scale as the need grows. This is autonomic computing or autonomous clouds, and it’s not as far away as it might seem. “We’ve been working towards autonomic computing for decades,” Wright said. ...

Predicting the future is always a tricky proposition, even for a multi-billion-dollar business like IBM Corp. Yet, company executives felt strongly that the enterprise computing world would become increasingly hybrid, a belief that drove the firm to acquire Red Hat Inc. for $34 billion in October. “The world is going to move towards containers, the world ...

Nutanix Inc. has built its business around hyperconverged infrastructure appliances and software-defined storage. Yet the company is increasingly facing pressure to expand its enterprise footprint in competition with major players such as Dell Technologies Inc. and its majority-owned VMware Inc. Founded in September 2009, Nutanix will celebrate its milestone decade by being as nimble at ...

In a keynote address at Google I/O 2019 on Tuesday, Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai declared that his company’s goal was “to build a more helpful Google for everyone.” One area of daily life where Google LLC clearly has big plans to help: driving a car. Car technologies, among numerous others, were on full display ...

Red Hat Inc. unveiled the latest iteration of its trademark red fedora logo this month. Yet when IBM Corp.’s chief executive officer, Ginni Rometty (pictured, with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst), took the keynote stage at the Red Hat Summit on Tuesday afternoon, she went out of her way to reassure the audience that after acquiring the open-source ...

When it comes to getting work done in the enterprise, it all depends on who does the heavy lifting. Writing an email is a simple process today, but what if everyone who needed to write one had to first build the computer on which it’s written and create the network over which is would be ...

Red Hat Inc. made news on two major fronts in less than 48 hours this week. On the product side, the open-source company released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 today. It was notable for a redesign to accommodate the hybrid cloud era. “People today have multiple clouds, and they have a lot of different ways they ...

The new on-premises hybrid cloud platform that Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled in Las Vegas last week is an antidote for buyer remorse. It’s designed to solve a problem when a business moves workloads to the public cloud, decides it was the wrong move, and wants to move it back without having to now deal with two ...

Millennials, typically defined as the generation born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, have been reshaping everything from economic spending and eating habits to real estate and healthcare. As firms such as DXC Technology Co. work with clients to provide end-to-end information technology services, Millennials are becoming a key part of enterprise digital transformation as ...