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The key Docker players in Mirantis’ longview strategy for Kubernetes
As a container orchestration tool, Kubernetes is flexible, scalable, powerful and reliable. But one thing it is not is simple to use. In the business world, this represents what is known as a market opportunity, and Mirantis Inc. is focused on leveraging the Docker Inc. technology it acquired last year to make Kubernetes simpler, faster, ...
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CEO Pat Gelsinger digs into VMware’s Nvidia partnership, security and the hybrid cloud
Some of the tech world’s biggest advances often begin with a simple conversation. In this case, the two people involved were Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware Inc., and Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Corp. Gelsinger was interested in capitalizing on VMware’s work with network interface controllers, hardware that connects computers with computer ...
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Security and cloud native offer opportunities for VMware as it faces new challenges
Despite the economic disruption of 2020, the year has shaped up to be a pretty good one for VMware Inc. It is 2021 that poses some uncertainty for the enterprise information technology services giant. VMware’s most recent quarterly earnings beat Wall Street forecasts and reflected solid growth in subscription and software-as-a-service revenue. However, plans by ...
Watch live: Quantum computing, cryptography and healthcare headline Upgrade 2020 event
The technology world has a lengthy track record of game-changing innovations generated by research labs, ranging from transistors and hard drives to the graphical user interface, which made it possible for humans to interact with computers without having to write code. The Japanese telecom company NTT Ltd. is now seeking to follow in those same ...
Industry and government leaders address global threats at Space & Cybersecurity Symposium 2020
It is easy to take for granted, but life would be vastly different without global reliance on space-based technology. Everything from GPS to weather tracking and a significant amount of web-based communications depends heavily on a complicated network of satellites orbiting Earth. Any disruption in this critical technology could have broad global implications, and this ...
New machine learning, automation capabilities added to PagerDuty’s digital operations management platform
During a time when it seems as though the entire planet has “gone digital,” the role of PagerDuty Inc. has come into sharper focus as a key player in keeping the critical work of IT organizations up and running. Mindful of enterprise and consumer need at such an important time, the company has chosen this ...
‘Digital acceleration’ at the top of DevOps priority lists for 2021, says PagerDuty study
The global pandemic has moved entire industries online, along with many consumers. Will it remain this way forever? That was one of the questions that PagerDuty Inc. sought to clarify when it commissioned a global study earlier this year. Results from the survey are in, and they indicate that at least 40% of respondents believe demand ...
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DigitalOps remains key focus for PagerDuty as its customers cope with unprecedented online demand
The concept of digital operations, or DigitalOps, is very much on the minds of information technology organizations today. The global pandemic has placed greater pressure on IT not only to transform entire companies into fully digital platforms but to keep them operationally efficient as well. Research from McKinsey & Company has showed that organizations successfully ...
NTT Research spotlights quantum computing, cryptography and healthcare at Upgrade 2020
There is a simple reason why companies will spend a projected $2.4 trillion globally on research and development in 2020: It gets results. In the technology world, the transistor, hard drive and graphical user interface all sprang from research labs, to name just a few key innovations. Now, Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Ltd. is seeking ...
Watch live: PagerDuty highlights stack integrations as 2020 Summit kicks off
A disruption in daily operations is the last thing a business needs today — running a company during the COVID-19 era is chaotic enough. Yet a recent study has found that information technology outages, downtime and unplanned work continue to cost enterprises both time and money. This is one reason the cloud-based IT monitoring service ...