As modern applications gain space, companies start to have two clear demands: an adequate infrastructure that allows the management of both new and legacy systems and data protection and security tools suitable for this environment. Supporting these new enterprise requirements is a focus of the integration between VMware Inc. and its parent company Dell Technologies, according ...

Legacy systems are considered a key barrier to digital business transformation and need to be modernized when enterprises are looking to increase the agility and efficiency of their IT infrastructure. That is what happened to flooring distributor Swiff-Train Co., a business that is more than 80 years old and has opted to update its old ...

Technology continues to expand to the edge, helping to solve problems in the real world. Take wildfires for example. Fires like those in California have intensified in recent years as the world faces increasingly dry and hot climates due to climate change — and technology can play an important role in combating them. In addition ...

No other industry has been more at the center of the global COVID-19 pandemic than healthcare. In addition to the endless work to fight the disease, it was necessary to innovate to use data and virtual monitoring to care for all patients while hospitals treated those with the virus. This technology transformation is shaping the ...

The increasing amount of data being generated today often calls for the use of supercomputers to process it. But this phenomenal amount of information also tends to push supercomputing to the edge, to process data as close as possible to the source or end user. “I think initially you’re going to see it on base stations, ...

Enterprises are increasingly investing in digital transformation, and it is imperative that these resources become value for business. But for that to happen, cultural change is needed within organizations, according to Tom Davenport (pictured, center), president’s distinguished professor of information technology and management at Babson College, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, and fellow of the ...

The debate over the need for business and IT units to work together to leverage enterprises’ bottom line is not new, but it has recently gained importance as the global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation. Looking to bridge the gap between technology investments and business results, a coalition of software industry leaders and executives, ...

Containers are increasingly important in addressing critical concerns for application developers, including the need for faster delivery, agility and portability. As they become popular, the multicluster environment tends to grow and a management system becomes necessary, according to Dave Lindquist (pictured, right), vice president and general manager of engineering and hybrid cloud management at Red ...

Businesses are building a massively distributed information technology system that comprises on-premises apps, public clouds and edge computing — and the challenge is to manage, secure and scale them up in a cost-effective way. The key solution for dealing with this vast ecosystem efficiently is automation, according to Ashesh Badani (pictured, left), senior vice president of cloud platforms ...

Automation is a major trend in most industries this year as cloud became the key operating model for businesses during 2020’s global pandemic. And because automation brings agility and efficiency for business, it has gone “contagious,” which makes the scenario promising for vendors, according to Walter Bentley (pictured, left), senior manager of the automation practice ...