From the standpoint of one security partner, Microsoft Corp. is a very different company today. As the current president and chief executive officer of Barracuda Networks Inc., BJ Jenkins (pictured) can recall a time when a visit to the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was anything but a welcoming experience. “I joke with people that ...

Microsoft Corp. announced new enhancements to its personal digital assistant, Cortana, this week, and the changes appear directly aimed at improving productivity in the workplace. The announcements from Microsoft include a Cortana-driven Play My Emails service in Outlook for business communications, along with new support for scheduling meetings using the digital assistant. “There were some interesting announcements ...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, IBM Corp. is increasingly finding itself having to fill gaps. There are skills gaps for data scientists who build training models, organizational gaps where companies struggle over how AI should be built and implemented in the enterprise, and credibility gaps as adoption has grown, but many people are still ...

Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements on Monday that involved cross-platform deployment of Azure Cloud services, analytics and an expanded edge infrastructure, but a secondary story may well be how the company is redefining its role in the tech community at large. “Where does Microsoft sit in this landscape?” asked Stu Miniman, co-host of ...

Business software maker Cohesity Inc. showcased new integrations today, aiming to simplify data backup and protection across hybrid cloud computing platforms on Monday as part of a series of announcements during Microsoft Ignite 2019. The new integrations include cloud native backup and cloud snapshot management tools for Microsoft Azure. The latest solutions are designed to further Cohesity’s ...

When a company scores a single $10 billion contract, it can generate quite a tailwind. That’s the total projected amount of a deal between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government when the company was awarded a hard-fought contract last month to provide technology services for the Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI ...

In 2011, the best game show player in the world lost to a computer, and the world has seemingly not been the same since. The player was Ken Jennings (pictured, third from right) who had amassed a 74- game winning streak on the “Jeopardy!” TV quiz show, a feat which made him the best trivia ...

It may be hard to imagine now, but there was a time not so long ago that video conferencing required expensive, complicated equipment, a ton of bandwidth… and patience. Lots and lots of patience. That’s because the video feed was often unreliable, it was difficult to join from multiple locations and the resulting experience was ...

The cloud native wave is coming. Capgemini SE has reported that while only 15% of new enterprise applications are cloud native, adoption will more than double by next year. Its potential as a cloud-based, elastic and resilient service delivery model has appeal in the enterprise information technology world. But cloud native is also still in ...

Samsung is open for business-to-business. There were plenty of new consumer gadgets and hardware releases as part of the Samsung Developer Conference this week in San Jose, California, but the company’s decision to devote the entire second-day keynote session for its business-to-business initiatives was a clear indication that this will be an important market for the ...