After more than 30 years of service in the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral (ret.) David Simpson (pictured) knows danger when he sees it. As he surveys the cybersecurity horizon, he’s become more concerned about the potential for weaponizing social media in the virtual “public square” that the online world has become. Recent allegations of message ...

Tech industry analysts are usually not overly impressed by numbers, but when Veeam Software Inc.’s company executives offered a few relevant statistics at the opening of the VeeamON event this week in Chicago, a couple of metrics piqued interest. “For me, the number that jumped out is they have over 300,000 customers,” said Stu Miniman ...

As one of the world’s leading global professional services companies, Accenture has a ringside seat to the changes taking place in today’s information technology industry. Clients ranging from small businesses to the largest multinationals are looking for ways to drive agile application development in both the public and private cloud-based worlds at scale and quickly. ...

Last week’s announcement from IBM Corp. that it would extends its Cloud Private and Cloud Private for Data platforms to support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift container ecosystem was a move by both firms to recognize the industry’s multicloud momentum. The action was designed for customers of the two companies to combine technologies from the both ...

Nutanix Inc. added the first software as a service product to its portfolio with the acquisition in March of Minjar Inc. The new offering included Minjar’s Botmetric intelligent cloud optimization tool, designed to deliver automated financial governance, security and compliance for the multicloud environment. The new tool was officially rolled out this month as Nutanix Beam, ...

The licensing of open-source software is complicated and runs counter to human intuition. Developers put their blood, sweat and tears into creating an elegant piece of software and then sign away the copyrights so that others can use and improve on it free and clear. Say what? The tech community has been grappling with this ...

Accenture LLP is one of only five companies to be named a Global Strategic Partner with ServiceNow Inc. That designation took on added meaning last month when the professional services firm was recognized as the overall leader in a report that evaluated the partner ecosystem of software as a service providers. “ServiceNow is a very ...

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 ...