Talk to any chief information officer and phrases like “single-click deployment,” “easier implementation” and “lower costs” will generally get their attention. That’s why the recent news from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. about a composable platform that combines VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation with its Synergy product sounds like music to the ears of enterprise technology managers seeking ...

In the multicloud, software-defined, hyperscale world, Veritas Technologies LLC is all in. The company that separated from Symantec Corp. over two years ago is now firmly on the path to identify itself as a leading data management business, recognizing that information is the coin of the realm. And Veritas made a series of major product ...

A $52 million investment earlier this year has put customer success startup Gainsight Inc. closer to the rarefied air of a $1 billion valuation. That a company with a business model based on making other firms successful might achieve unicorn status itself is testimony to the growing importance of customer service in the growing software as ...

In what might well be a technology industry first, an enterprising student at the Holberton School of Software Engineering in San Francisco, California, penned and posted a three-minute in-class rap performance about bash scripting. As the video went viral (at least inside the software community), it even caught the attention of Linus Torvalds, creator and ...

Being able to mix and match software components in container configuration has become an important part of virtualizing the distribution of applications in the enterprise stack. So when Docker Inc. announced the Moby Project at DockerCon earlier this year, it was both an opportunity to capitalize on innovations in the open-source community to further the container cause, ...

An ambitious project to recycle plastic refuse in developing countries that have little or no waste management systems is being powered by the IBM Blockchain. Big Blue’s use of the tamper-proof ledger system is only half the story, because the recycling project is also designed to pay people who bring in their plastic, a tricky proposition ...

The open-source community may be headed toward a major turning point, thanks to a security breach of epic scale. When news broke this month that the personal credit records, including names, birthdates, Social Security Numbers and home addresses of 143 million people had been breached at the credit rating bureau Equifax Inc., there was outrage. ...

If telecom giant CenturyLink Inc.’s proposed acquisition of fiber networking provider Level 3 gains final approval, it will give the company a new set of products to sell to enterprise customers and will fit nicely with its strategy to be a major multicloud network provider. CenturyLink has already made significant investments in virtualization and workload ...

The installation of new servers and ancillary hardware usually follows a five-year cycle in many enterprise data centers, although there is growing evidence that rapid change in information technology structures are causing cycle times to accelerate. VMware Inc. believes that 60 percent of its customers will be going through a server refresh by the end of ...

VMware Inc.’s continued rise in popularity is testimony to customers’ desire for a flexible, virtualized system that can facilitate a common data structure, from the edge to the data center, from private clouds to public clouds. But customers also need their systems to be secure, and this is gaining more attention as information technology vendors ...