The challenge for enterprise IT is to stay at least one step ahead of the next technology wave. When it comes to data, that means preparing for the unstructured tsunami. Unstructured data is predicted to grow for most enterprises by over 50% per year, reaching 80% of all data by 2025, according to IDC. This ...

For Jim Whitehurst, becoming the chief executive of Red Hat Inc. in 2007 was like ordering a five-course meal and only receiving a couple of appetizers. He expected to find a customer list that represented the core global industries and biggest information technology consumers. Instead, it was financial institutions, some phone companies and not much ...

In baseball, when a player rises from the minor leagues and earns a spot with a major club, it’s called “going to The Show” and it’s cause for great celebration. Tech’s turn in the batter’s box for “The Show” has not so fun. A number of tech companies that began as startups with innovative ideas have ...

Recent research is beginning to offer a clearer picture of what a post-pandemic world might look like, confirming what many might expect. Entire sectors of the economy and social life are being transformed virtually overnight, unleashing a new set of expectations from technology service providers. A new Harvard Business School survey found that more than ...

Whether information is stored in raw form in massive data lakes or in more structured data warehouse environments, one truth is constant: Enterprise users must still be able to find what they need at any given moment. This need has created a compelling market opportunity for data discovery firms such as Snowflake Inc. and Io-Tahoe ...

GoldenGate, Oracle Corp.’s software for replicating data from one database to another, is being released as a fully managed and automated cloud service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle’s latest move, in what has been a busy 2021 for the enterprise database giant, is geared toward providing simplicity with flexibility in scaling and pay-per-use pricing. “Traditionally, data ...

When IBM announced its intention to acquire Red Hat Inc. for $34 billion in 2018, it was widely viewed as a sign that the open-source train had finally arrived in the station. Less than three years later, open source has grown to encompass not only the station, but the train tracks and surrounding enterprise territory ...

The storage industry is experiencing a transformation driven by a simple fact: Enterprise users need storage to do a whole lot more. What propels this need is complexity of the data pipeline. Every organization is filled with data today. What’s missing is a fast path to insight from that mass of business-critical information. To address ...

The path toward digital modernization is not an easy one, as many enterprises are discovering. While events of 2020 forced numerous businesses to accelerate plans for transforming IT infrastructure, the process did not always yield the desired outcomes. In fact, research over the past two years has revealed that 70% of digital transformation initiatives fall ...

In 2006, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama published a book, “The Audacity of Hope,” on his way to winning the White House in 2008. If the cybersecurity community were to write a similar treatise today, the appropriate title would most likely be “The Audacity of Hacks.” FireEye Inc. held a series of sessions this month to offer a ...