When you own a set of companies that offers customer solutions to diverse industries, such as construction, mining, oil and gas, agriculture, and power, you can count on having plenty of competition. For the Zahid Group, this meant reaching out to Infor Inc. for scalable applications critical to the heavy equipment industry with the goal ...

When the investment arm of Koch Industries Inc. paid $2.5 billion for a major stake in Infor Inc., the move was seen as another “traditional company goes digital” story. The extent of Koch’s interest in Infor became clearer today when it was announced that the business applications provider will implement CloudSuite — a benchmark suite for ...

Infor Inc. followed up its June 2017 acquisition of Birst Inc., a cloud-native business intelligence, analytics and data visualization platform, with the announcement today of Coleman, an artificial intelligence platform for CloudSuite applications. How those two platforms will complement Infor’s strategic direction was the central question as the company kicked off its Inforum 2017 event in New York. “One ...

When Pure Storage Inc. announced a partnership with Catalogic Software Inc. nearly one year ago to jointly produce a copy data management product for enterprise information technology, it was widely seen as an important moment for the two firms. Pure Storage was in a legal dogfight against disk powerhouses like EMC, and Catalogic was beginning to ...

Nutanix Inc. made significant news at its .NEXT gathering last week with the announcement of a partnership with Google to help large enterprises migrate workloads to the cloud. However, as comments from the chief product officer at Nutanix indicate, cloud options are numerous and his company is planning to cover as many bases as possible. “For ...

Although the healthcare industry has often been more cautious than other sectors in embracing new technologies, there are signs that hospitals and other patient care organizations are beginning to adopt the enterprise model when it comes to data management. This might involve mimicking attributes of a public cloud when it makes sense on-prem and implementing server ...

John Bates (pictured) has worn many hats, from entrepreneur to professor to author. As a businessman, he built and sold software company PLAT.ONE  to SAP SE that specialized in communication between machines and Internet of Things devices. And as an author, he’s written about the enormous opportunity for people and enterprises in the IoT world in his ...

Nutanix Inc. and Citrix Systems Inc. are teaming up to deliver a streamlined application and virtual desktop infrastructure solution that is designed to improve the user experience across the enterprise. Both companies are responding to customer pleas for an easier way to deploy the necessary tools for workplace management with the end result being an ...

When Illumio Inc. announced new funding of $125 million last month, the investment (which was led by J.P. Morgan) gave further credibility to a growing field in computer security known as micro-segmentation. Illumio filters data access policies through its software products based on the belief that security controls should move with workloads and applications while ...

In its move to the “invisible infrastructure,” Nutanix Inc. has been able to capitalize on a key shift in enterprise computing. “Storage as we know it is going away, and we’re moving towards infrastructure as code, which is just a stepping stone to cloud. But I don’t see multi-cloud as a winner-take-all market,” said Dave ...