There are at least 50,000 professional skills in the world, according to recent data provided by LinkedIn, and the number one hard skill that companies need most in 2019 is cloud computing. That single fact should send students rushing to fill classes in the field, yet there are currently 700,000 unfilled information technology jobs in ...

During the economic recession of 2008 and 2009, brought on by a collapse of the U.S. real estate market, business mergers and acquisitions were few and far between. Uncertainty in the stock market left what few offers there were as cash-only deals, a rare opportunity. Yet, one tech company not only got acquired in 2009 for ...

When voice, video, instant messaging, and video conferencing come together on a converged Internet Protocol network, the complexity meter rises fast. And when there’s a problem with even one of these services, finding and fixing it can quickly become a major challenge. NetScout Systems Inc.’s nGeniusONE solution is designed to provide a cure for whatever ...

Application programming interfaces or APIs are fast becoming like air and water. Businesses need them to survive. That basic point was driven home recently for Brian Pagano, senior director of Catalysts at Axway Inc., which provides cloud integration and API and identity management software. and former global platform strategist at Google LLC. He recently spoke ...

Nine days into the third quarter of 2019, IBM Corp. closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Inc. Now that Red Hat is officially part of the IBM fold, what are the expectations of both companies by customers as the deal takes hold? That was the central focus of a recent survey conducted by ...

NetApp Inc.’s latest product moves illustrate the realization that, when it comes to meeting customer needs in a hybrid world, it’s all about choice. The storage solutions company recently announced new cloud-based services that offer customers choice of on-premises or cloud infrastructure. NetApp also launched a service that automates Kubernetes deployment within a hyperconverged infrastructure platform. ...

To determine whether a food delivery business has value, look at the data it collects. And DoorDash Inc. has data. Order behavior by customers of the food delivery service, which now serves diners in 4,000 cities across the U.S. and Canada from over 340,000 merchants, gives it a pretty good idea of what diners like ...

If there is any vertical that understands the meaning of cost to a business, it’s the financial services industry. Yet, when evaluating the cost impact of running information technology in the cloud versus through a private data center, there are other factors of more importance in the world of banks and brokerages. “Cost isn’t really ...

People can choose not to use ride sharing or ignore social media, but when it comes to healthcare, everyone ultimately takes an interest. Mindful of this basic reality, Amazon Web Services Inc. has built its own Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in cloud computing to address that need. “The entire practice of AWS Healthcare Life ...

It might seem at first glance that the mobile food delivery industry is fairly simple. Open app, order restaurant food, pay, and chow down upon receipt. In fact, every order triggers a complex set of technological steps for a business like DoorDash Inc., which has recently emerged as the leader in U.S. online food delivery. ...