Masked opportunities didn’t stop Christina Kosmowski (pictured, right), head of global customer success at Slack Technologies Inc., from getting where she is today. She was always the first person to say “yes,” whether it be to start a soccer team in college or a London office in the business world. Her openness to trying new ...

Many companies are making the change to containers’ virtualized software management technology, and Amazon Web Services Inc. is helping its customers take the leap. Portability, efficiency and speed of these containers were the reasons Abby Fuller (pictured), senior technical evangelist at AWS, said she switched to containers as a customer before she ever worked for ...

SAP SE has transitioned from a primarily software applications company to a platform company heading toward the cloud. And after only a year, the company has 1,100 partners and 1,500 applications in its App Center, made entirely for businesses, according to Uddhav Gupta (pictured), global vice president and general manager of SAP Digital. SAP’s App Center ...

Collaboration has become a stronger central theme in the open-source world. Whereas collaboration used to mean simply sharing code and moving on, it now means sharing experiences around operations and accessing infrastructure as code or accessing infrastructure programmatically, explained Mark Baker (pictured), field product manager at Canonical Ltd, a privately held computer software company using ...

With ever-changing products, the technology industry continuously alters its missions and goals. One such example is OpenStack, an open-source software platform for cloud computing, and its influence in the business world. “OpenStack very much now is about solving a real business problem, which is the automation of the data center and the cost parody of ...

Data generation is on the rise, and has been for some time. With that, comes the pressing need for a way to contain that data, no matter the platform. Trying to homogenize this data and get it usable in one place for analytics or decision making is an incredible task. One that plays right to ...

With rising security concerns about the OpenStack open-source cloud computing software and the cloud, specifically surrounding data residency and data disposal, Mark Collier (pictured), the OpenStack Foundation’s chief operating officer, recently affirmed that OpenStack is, in fact, a stable layer in open-source projects. “You can do so many more things with it, and OpenStack solves a very specific, very ...

Data management is no longer just about project completion, but rather a strategic method to improve customer experience and operational efficiency of the company. Graeme Thompson (pictured), senior vice president and chief information officer for Informatica LLC, arrived at this realization after talking to project officers, other CIOs, and customers. As a result, Informatica has shifted focus. ...

After 30 years of work in industrial internet of things, OSIsoft LLC continues to forge a path in data management. The company’s primary goal: enabling operational intelligence via its PI System, which connects sensor-based data, systems and people. As encrypted ledger technology blockchain becomes an area of interest for the business world, OSIsoft finds itself answering customer questions specific to ...

What is the “internet of things”? It really involves bringing together two different departments: information technology, or the people controlling servers and software, and operational technology, the people running machines and equipment. By funneling OT data to IT analytics, insights such as predictive maintenance and self-healing supply chains become possible. McKinsey researchers anticipate up to ...