Following major acquisitions of Docker Enterprise and Lens, cloud software company Mirantis Inc. is boosting its service offerings, including those related to after-sales and customer experience. Mirantis has expanded its traditional subscription support services to the new Docker Enterprise Container Cloud product, according to Willem du Plessis (pictured), director of customer success and operations at ...

Enterprises around the world had to take quick actions to reinvent themselves and survive the unprecedented business disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, agility is not a new requirement in the business world. The application development platform provider OutSystems Inc. has been growing over the years by addressing companies’ need for speed to innovate, ...

While there is a growing awareness of the benefits of artificial intelligence in business, there are a number of challenges for companies when it comes time to implement AI, such as accessing data science talents and understanding use cases. In order to fill this gap, application development platform provider OutSystems Inc. launched its Machine Learning Builder, ...

When health insurance company Humana Inc. started its digital transformation about two years ago, there was no sign of the COVID-19 pandemic on the horizon, and the company’s goal was to build new and better ways to interact with customers. But when the coronavirus crisis hit the world, Humana was able to offer much more than ...

In the rapidly evolving cloud computing market, a major challenge for businesses is managing systems dispersed across a variety of on-premises and multicloud infrastructure while assuring compliance and governance. Red Hat Inc. has partnered with leading cloud providers and is constantly evolving its managed service offerings to facilitate this process, according to Sathish Balakrishnan (pictured), ...

Data center software and services company Nutanix Inc. this week announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp. Azure as a new step in the evolution of its hyperconverged infrastructure toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure. The agreement will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless application, data and license mobility, according to Monica Kumar (pictured, left), ...

As more enterprises recognize the importance of leveraging data to enable smarter business decisions, the role of the chief data officer has gained prominence. But it’s inevitable that CDOs will increasingly partner with chief information officers to develop business data strategies, according to Inderpal Bhandari, global chief data officer at IBM. “The major driving force ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated enterprise adoption of multiple clouds as it reaffirmed the critical need for business agility. But deploying combinations of on-premises, off-premises, public and private clouds is not necessarily an easy task. IBM and Red Hat Inc., the open source powerhouse it acquired last year, are joining their existing infrastructure, capabilities and security tools to ...

Red Hat Inc. continues to augment its OpenShift container application platform with virtualization capabilities. Based on the premise that containers and virtual machines are complementary technologies, it announced this week that the OpenShift virtualization tool is moving to general availability. “It will be a fully supported part of OpenShift,” said Steve Gordon (pictured), director of ...

Innovation is at the heart of any major technology company, but Cisco Systems Inc. wants to take it a step further. The company formed a new group called Emerging Technologies & Incubation, whose mission is to incubate its next bets. “The charter for this group is to move further and further out from Cisco’s core business and take ...