The evolution of ServiceNow Inc. from a company that provided help desk management 10 years ago to a rapidly growing software as a service and cloud powerhouse today, with a $2 billion annual run rate, started from within. A combination of cultural change and management discipline has propelled the firm forward. An important component that ...

Red Hat Inc. went to great lengths on Tuesday to deliver a message of partnership with some of the biggest companies in the world, specifically IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. The theme on Wednesday was more customer-focused with a direct message for the tech community at large: Open-source software is growing up and it is ...

The tagline of this week’s Red Hat Summit in San Francisco is, “If you are interested in open-source, you should be here.” It looks like IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. took the advice to heart. Tuesday’s news that IBM and Microsoft would be joining forces with Red Hat Inc. on a set of OpenShift platform ...

When it comes to cloud computing applications, Oracle Corp. is all about self: self-repairing, self-securing and self-driving. After rolling out its Data Warehouse Cloud in March, Oracle doubled down today on its autonomous capabilities with the general availability of built-in artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for its analytics, integration and visual builder cloud services. ...

There are a lot of things in life that most people could do without and not feel the irritation of inconvenience. Plumbing is not one of them, and in many ways the work of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation might fall into a similar category. “I sometimes describe it as the plumbing software for the ...

The new Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Developer Community program officially launched in late November last year. It is already attracting interest among those in the coding community who are seeking ways to collaborate directly with HPE engineers, build cutting-edge apps, and solve problems. “In the last two-and-a-half months, we’ve seen a significant uptick in people ...

When Google designed Kubernetes and then turned the container project over to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it could have simply walked away. Yet, as recent announcements indicate, Google Inc. has every intention to stay involved and continue to offer new enhancements. This was amply demonstrated with Google’s recent release of Kubeflow and Stackdriver Kubernetes ...

From creation to deletion, data has a lifecycle, and IBM Corp. is focused on helping its customers manage that process from end-to-end. The work is not always easy and involves a lot of moving pieces, including discovery, storage, compliance and migration, all over the space of hours, weeks, months or years. Krishna Venkatraman (pictured), vice ...

Here’s a quick quiz. Name a top Swedish enterprise software company that was founded by a group of students in a tent and today delivers service management solutions to major customers, such as Pepsi Co., SAAB and Motorola Inc. The answer is IFS AB, and the firm has been quietly carving out its own position ...

Depending on whom you talk to, artificial intelligence is a lot of hype, the downfall of the tech industry or the savior of the planet — or all of those at once. Mark Hurd, the chief executive of Oracle Corp., thinks AI is an “overused” term. John Chambers, former CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., is ...