After the ink was dry on the $67-billion Dell EMC merger in 2016, the remaining question was whether the combined companies would be able to maintain critical partner and customer relationships. Based on conversations with both groups at Dell Technologies World this week, the returns so far are good. “Customers were worried that Dell EMC ...

Three media companies delivered their digital content presentations at NewFronts in New York City on Monday, as they do every year. Two had far-flung networks of global correspondents, teams of editors and a combined 263 years of communications experience, but the third one that dominated the headlines on this day was founded in 2006 and ...

The premise of the project was simple. Get valuable software released faster, with higher quality and reduced risk. Yet there was also a big problem, neatly outlined halfway into a PowerPoint presentation. The project’s premise wouldn’t work because of stated reasons such as “we’re regulated” or “we’re not building websites” or even “our people are too ...

Oracle NetSuite is following the mantra of strength in numbers. The company that was one of the earliest players in cloud computing back in 1998 announced 14 new editions of its SuiteSuccess industry cloud solutions and 20 enhancements for its core application technology on Tuesday. And that’s on top of additional capabilities released for its SuiteAnalytics ...

A Deloitte report released last year found that nearly 40 percent of senior executives surveyed had little or no knowledge about the blockchain. Yet, the decentralized general ledger platform, originally built 10 years ago for tracking cryptocurrency exchanges, continues to attract enterprise interest as evidenced by recent blockchain-related endeavors announced by players such as Cisco Systems ...

With a platform for open commerce innovation, Magento Inc. has seen an increasing number of businesses embrace its technology, to the point where it now handles more than $155 billion in gross merchandise volume annually. The world of online retail is evolving rapidly, and the company has built a portfolio of cloud-based solutions for merchants ...

The United States Air Force calls its coding initiative the Pathfinder Project, but the airmen participating in a new approach for the delivery of combat applications preferred to name their work after a hyperspace route used by renegade freighter captains in the legendary “Star Trek” television series: Kessel Run. “The joke is that we’re delivering ...

In the fast-moving world of cybersecurity, the operative word today is fatigue. Information technology organizations have alert fatigue from having to deal with every possible minute-by-minute hint of a data breach or ransomware attack. Enterprise security executives are worn out from endless meetings and board-level discussions about corporate risk profiles. Cybersecurity professionals are so fatigued ...

With tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, this month, the chances were good that a few of them celebrated birthdays. But it’s unlikely that any of them celebrated a birthday as recent as Michael Daniel (pictured), because his milestone was one year old. As the president and ...

Nearly one year ago, IBM Corp. announced plans to combine its data science platform with Hortonworks Inc.’s software for data management. What IBM brought to the partnership was its Data Science Experience, or DSX, solution, designed to let developers create analytics models and machine learning tools quickly. Since then, IBM has been fine-tuning its data science ...