As more organizations move to a multicloud environment, data management providers continue to fight for market share. Does that mean a company is out of the game if a competitor gets the business? Not necessarily. IBM Corp., one of the largest enterprise cloud providers, launched a multicloud manager in the second half of last year ...

Enterprises are increasingly embracing new, fast, and frequently changing digital technology to solve business problems. But this digital transformation will only be effective if employees are engaged and prepared to deal with these changes. Guiding corporate employees through this journey is the mission of the performance support software platform Whatfix. Founded in 2013, the startup ...

In a data-driven world, enterprises are trying to extract value from their data and associate it with their products or services to promote business. Companies that will outperform the competition will be those that can analyze the data and take advantage of it in a faster way, according to Guy Churchward (pictured), chief executive officer ...

Managing multicloud environments and making stored data useful are challenges that companies are dealing with and will continue to deal with in the future. Taking advantage of the growing demand for its services, MongoDB Inc. has moved from a single data product company to a data platform enterprise. “Earlier this year, we announced not just the core ...

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s customer obsession fits like a glove for companies looking to deliver solutions that significantly impact end users. Freshworks Inc., an Indian company that sells business software tools, counts on AWS to scale its service and better serve its customers. “The big focus that we have always had is to deliver the right ...

Recent laws that protect consumer privacy have forced companies to rethink how they share and use the data they collect. Founded by members of the U.S. intelligence community, the startup Immuta Inc. is growing by providing data-governance solutions for customers in the financial, healthcare, government, and manufacturing industries. “With the advent of privacy regulations, our ...

It is a challenge for businesses to manage, analyze and utilize the huge amount of data produced every day. Enterprises that grow through acquisitions have an even greater challenge: also dealing with data sets inherited from other companies. North America’s largest residential energy supplier, Direct Energy, is using the services of Io-Tahoe LLC to learn ...

Many fear robots will replace humans in business. But they can actually coexist with corporate employees to create “bionic organizations” which combine the capabilities of humans and machines for more productive operations, according to Boston Consulting Group Inc., which applies artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to help enterprises to make this technology transformation. It uses the cloud to scale solutions ...

The enterprise storage market arguably suffers from an oversupply of flash products, which threatens vendors’ profitability. To stand up to the competition, Pure Storage Inc. is betting on offering multiple classes of service for storage. “This is not about the storage array anymore,” said Rob Walters (pictured, right), vice president and general manager of the Storage ...

Large companies’ path toward the public cloud hardly happens without friction. To simplify this process, cloud management startup Aviatrix Systems Inc. has enhanced the services it offers on top of the leading cloud provider Amazon Web Services Inc. Five-year-old Aviatrix provides networking and security services that work across all the major infrastructure platforms. It allows ...