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 ...

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 ...