Technology is not just about improving business efficiency, customer experience and overall security. It is also about making a large human impact. Scientists are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study, for example, space weather and its major impacts on Earth’s infrastructure, oceans and their relationship to climate change, as well as global food ...

The multicloud environment can present a bounty of challenges for enterprises. It is not just about moving legacy applications to modern storage appliances; it is also about how to match one’s workload to the right cloud. Data-driven analytics can help companies to make informed and better workload placement decisions, according to Bobby Allen (pictured, left), chief ...

Seen as science fiction until recently, quantum computing may soon have practical use for businesses. That’s the vision of Amazon Web Services Inc., now focused on applying this technology to solve consumers problems, according to Bill Vass (pictured), vice president of technology, storage, automation and messaging at AWS. This week, the public cloud provider announced plans to launch ...

In today’s ever-changing world, new technologies can present opportunities but also hard work for companies that need to adapt to a new way of operating. Facing customer inertia to try new tech solutions is a challenge for business software maker Cohesity Inc., according to Chris Wiborg (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Cohesity. “Oftentimes our number ...

In addition to storing and protecting data, companies dealing with exponential data growth have the challenge of managing it to extract value. Helping solve this real business problem is the mission of enterprise software maker Cohesity Inc. To provide data management not just on-premise but in the cloud, Cohesity has partnered with Microsoft Azure. “When ...

Better than solving security issues is to avoid them. Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. wants to enable security tools to be built into the DevOps device chain to eliminate potential issues before they become real problems. “The best time to remediate is the time of zero,” said Sumedh Thakar (pictured), president and chief technical officer of Qualys. “If ...

There is no doubt that cybersecurity is important for all types of companies given the high investments in it. However, for some enterprises, security is an essential part of their business. Such is the case with Ancestry.com LLC, the world’s largest for-profit genealogy company, which operates a network of genealogical, historical and genealogical records. In ...

Global digital transformation comes with an explosion in the amount of data, but also in the associated software, requiring enterprises to rethink service and operations management. The solution to this is automation, including the AI-driven robotic process, according to Nayaki Nayyar (pictured, right), president of digital services management at BMC Software Inc. “What we are ...

Business spending on cybersecurity is growing year by year, as are new attacks and threats. To address these dangers, Nutanix Inc. spends about 10% of its total information-technology operating budget on cybersecurity, with the goal to build resilient architectures and code, according to Wendy M. Pfeiffer (pictured), chief information officer of Nutanix. “A resilient company is one that ...

As container application adoption grows in the era of multicloud, Kubernetes gains attention as a tool for deploying and automating operations. As part of its evolution, Kubernetes needs to focus on application developers, according to Bryan Liles (pictured), senior staff engineer at VMware Inc. “Infrastructure comes and goes. I have been doing this for decades,” ...