Marlene Den Bleyker
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Lessons in virtual reality from a Guitar Hero
Woody Allen once said, “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign that you’re not doing anything very innovative.” And in an industry that thrives on innovation, many technology companies are providing employees with the room to fail, learn and invent the products and services of the future. One company’s “failure” in ...
Is Wall Street driving business innovation off the proverbial cliff?
Business growth in the 21st century is no longer defined by traditional standards or the 90-day shot clock of Wall Street. In the era of digital disruption, to remain competitive it is necessary that an organization respond to changing markets and evolve quickly. In fact, 31 percent of business leaders are flipping their business strategies based ...
From Wall Street to Main Street: Nutanix CEO on IPO, Google team-up and machine learning
Wall Street can be fickle when it comes to technology companies, but last week one analyst upgraded the outperform rating for Nutanix Inc. as it announced what might sound like a surprising public-cloud strategic alliance with Google Inc. But last year when the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, Dheeraj Pandey (pictured), led the initial public ...
Just how will Lenovo make hyperconverged tech a reality for the enterprise?
Lenovo Group Ltd. is working to make the hyperconverged data center a reality for the enterprise. Clarifying its growth intentions last week during the Lenovo Transform event in New York City, the company unveiled key products and an evolving mentality to drive adoption of its portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data center services. The company is ...
Filling the data gap with diverse people, not diversity reports
Organizations are knee deep in their respective digital transformations, trying to create a more evolved, technology-based way of doing business. Technology companies, ironically, are not accelerating the pace of bringing diversity to the workplace to keep up with the speed of innovation required to successfully fill the data gap while transforming digitally, according to Kim ...
Use cases, easing data complexity driving tech, says Pentaho CPO
One thing is clear in the age of digital transformation: It’s all about business outcomes. Regardless of the type of technology, the industry as a whole is now revolutionizing businesses one use case at a time. And a primary goal in the digital world is to ease data complexity to get to those outcomes more ...
IBM-Hortonworks partnership focuses on machine learning
In an industry where collaboration provides the strength to grow, Hortonworks Inc. and IBM Corp. are ramping up their partnership by aggregating Hortonworks Data Platform with the IBM Data Science Experience to create new integrated solutions that will advance both companies’ technology agendas in their core areas of expertise. “Now this relationship is actually gone beyond that where ...
Lenovo aims to transform data center for AI and IoT
Lenovo Group Ltd. dipped its toe into the enterprise market in 2014, when it acquired IBM’s x86 server business. Now competing in the enterprise market with heavy hitters like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell Technologies Inc., the company revealed it is now trying to boost its rack space in the data center. This week ...
AWS partners with governments to build smart cities in the cloud
The urban population continues to rise, as 1.3 million people move to a city each week, taking its toll on infrastructure and the quality of life. The U.S. government is investing in smart cities across America to improve transportation, communication, socialization and economics within these communities. Amazon Web Services Inc. is a driving force in moving the ...
Why DevOps is driving internal change at Liberty Mutual
The cloud, copious amounts of data generation, analytics and the Internet of Things are disrupting organizations by changing the foundation of how they deliver products and services. In a digital world, insurance companies are beginning to establish new business models around developer operations, and many are becoming software development companies as they shift to new ways ...