The technology industry is learning how to collaborate more effectively in an effort to combat cybersecurity attacks at a time when the threat environment is becoming more dangerous. In late October, three government agencies, including the FBI, issued an alert warning of increased ransomware attacks on hospitals. “Trickbot” malware has been used as a primary ...

Corporate quarterly earnings calls are usually mundane affairs, but the conference with Salesforce.com Inc.’s top executives at the end of August was more revealing than most. During the discussion, Salesforce Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff suddenly dropped a startling data point. He indicated that a third of the company’s nearly 50,000 employees were “reporting ...

IBM announced an expansion of storage capabilities that left no doubt about its strategic approach: It is a containerized world, and IBM — through its integration with Red Hat’s OpenShift platform for Kubernetes — intends to be a major part of it. “We are launching a number of solutions for various workloads and applications built with ...

The concept of developers working together at long tables in physical spaces to code software was certainly the norm one year ago. The idea of remote development was more the exception than the rule. That was so 2019. “The idea of remote working was like an oddity,” said Jeffrey Hammond (pictured), vice president and principal ...

When Commvault Systems Inc. launched Metallic, a software-as-a-service backup and recovery solution, at its GO event one year ago, the company could not have anticipated how different the world would look 12 months later. With a vast migration of enterprise work to remote environments since March, endpoint protection has moved from “nice to have” to ...

When the global pandemic began to sweep across the U.S., many financial institutions closed physical offices. Yet, the banking industry needed to keep functioning, especially at a time when many small businesses desperately need loans to stay open. One of the more remarkable stories described during the recent Citrix Workspace Summit involved City National Bank of ...

Some tech events are adept at showcasing mind-bending new technologies. Others manage to expose the frailties and flaws of a contentious tech world. A few manage to focus on both. That last was the case for Technology Review’s EmTech MIT virtual event this week, which highlighted advances in a number of intriguing tech areas while ...

Crises such as the current pandemic can also be catalysts for innovative new ideas. It was during the COVID-19 disruption that Randy Seidl (pictured), an experienced tech sales professional, conceived a plan to create a community of like-minded thought leaders who could help his profession. That insight led to the launch of Sales Community LLC in ...

Sometimes it takes a major crisis to bring technologies that have been available for some time suddenly into the limelight. Video collaboration tools, online delivery services for meals and groceries, even touchless, QR code-driven menus in restaurants have been around for years. However, the adoption rate has suddenly been thrown into hyperdrive by the global pandemic. ...

Dell Technologies’ recent unveiling of its Cloud Console underscores an evolution in the company’s view of the dynamics between public and private clouds. Dell is leveraging its presence in the on-premises world to deliver innovation that can meet customers wherever they are. “At Dell, we think of cloud as an operating model and an operating experience ...