The security operations center in many large companies looks much like NASA’s Mission Control Center — lots of consoles displaying reams of data and harried personnel swiveling between screens to analyze threats or manage incident response. Therefore, it’s only fitting that Splunk Inc.’s newly launched enhancement for the Security Operations Suite is called Mission Control. ...

In September, IBM Corp. announced enhancements for its Cloud Pak for Data offering, designed to leverage a data operations or DataOps methodology to help customers prepare large amounts of information for the application of artificial intelligence. It’s a gap in the enterprise information-technology world, which IBM believes must be filled for many companies to utilize ...

IBM Corp. has built an extensive artificial-intelligence practice with Watson and a portfolio of cognitive tools. The company has also taken major steps to drive AI and data analysis within IBM itself. IBM has created an internal mobile app that leveraged Cognos Analytics and allowed its top executives to access critical data anytime and anyplace, according ...

When Bayview Asset Management LLC, a Florida-based firm focused on a variety of mortgage-related assets, confronted efficiency challenges with its mushrooming back-office functions, the firm wondered if robotic process automation could offer a viable solution. Bayview turned to the business process automation firm Accelirate Inc. for help in finding a process that could help manage a ...

Artificial intelligence is not only exposing a digital skills gap, but it’s also threatening to turn a lot of jobs into software. That’s according to Craig Le Clair (pictured), vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., whose new book, “Invisible Robots in the Quiet of the Night,” documents the reality of advancing automation through interviews with workers in ...

Commvault Systems Inc. may have made significant changes in its executive ranks since 2018, but the company hasn’t lost its institutional memory. Although Commvault’s longtime Chief Executive Officer Bob Hammer stepped away in March, the man who served with him as chief operating officer for 20 years has remained on the company’s board. Al Bunte (pictured, ...

With a funding valuation of $7 billion and a spot in the top five on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, UiPath Inc. is generally viewed today as the leader in the robotic process automation market. Like a freight train emerging from a long, dark tunnel into blinding daylight, UiPath has suddenly appeared with a force few ...

When Commvault Systems Inc. acquired Hedvig Inc. in September, the official company announcement positioned the purchase as an opportunity to address the challenges that companies face with data management in multicloud environments. Customers want unified solutions, not fragmented applications that only solve one piece of the puzzle. This is exactly why Hedvig’s founder believes the ...

When technology companies change leadership, the shift in corporate direction can mirror transformation taking place within the industry itself. For some analysts who are paid to observe companies in specific market segments, the change in the top leadership earlier this year at Commvault Systems Inc., with the hire of former Puppet chief executive officer Sanjay ...

When Commvault Systems Inc. launched its new Metallic software-as-a-service venture this week, it also announced that backup capabilities would be hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud. The news added another chapter to a longtime partnership between the two companies, with a relationship that goes back nearly two decades. While the new venture is expected to enhance ...