Leveraging the services of multiple cloud providers has been a reality for enterprises in recent years. But for a lot of them, that means having different architectures on several different clouds, which can be more complex, expensive and inefficient. The challenge for a successful multicloud strategy is to run a single architecture across all clouds, ...

As with businesses, the public sector was also tremendously shaken by the need to quickly modernize its IT infrastructure to meet new demands during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving to the cloud, for example, is no longer a question of “if” but “when” and “how.” Technology vendors working with governments are trying to make this modernization ...

Few companies have become as popular during the COVID-19 pandemic as Zoom Video Communications Inc., responsible for enabling real-time collaboration experiences when everybody was locked down. A large part of Zoom’s positive impact occurred in the public sector, where agents depended on the platform to maintain their activities and serve citizens. To further promote the ...

The public sector has long been very important to Amazon Web Services Inc., as have partners who play a critical role in helping to drive innovation and results for the cloud provider’s customers. As a result, Government Competency is now the largest industry-focused AWS Competency Program globally, with over a hundred partners, according to Sandy ...

While automation was once feared for its job-stealing potential, it’s now increasingly seen as a powerful tool to make work easier, save time and even address skill gaps in technology teams. The result is that it has spread across organizations. Red Hat Inc.’s Ansible Automation platform stands out in this movement, increasingly expanding its offerings. ...

While data has become the heart of digital transformation in every industry, significant challenges remain for organizations to successfully execute data-first initiatives. The problems include being stuck with legacy analytics platforms and not being able to orchestrate analytics among hybrid environments. To help enterprises that still struggle to modernize and unify analytics and data platforms ...

As the digital transformation deepens, businesses have their applications increasingly distributed and complex, which, not surprisingly, results in service availability and performance issues. Still, software is more impactful to bottom line than ever, and keeping apps available to customers is critical. Leveraging hybrid observability, machine learning and process automation, AIOps startup OpsRamp Inc. has been ...

Almost every business, whether it is an emerging SaaS startup or a traditional enterprise, engages with customers primarily through some kind of app. And that is what gives the end user the first impression of the organization. The problem is that this interface is often a static dashboard that allows almost no interaction with customers. ...

The digital transformation accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has brought previously unimaginable security challenges. Organizations’ attack surface has increased as applications have migrated to the cloud to meet the needs of remote working and learning, and software has been released much faster, at a pace that traditional security models already struggle to keep up with. ...

The need for innovation has caused business to speed up software delivery, which, however, is often the antithesis of quality. And the speed versus quality puzzle is not an easy one to solve. The software delivery startup Harness Inc. tackles this problem with the use of automation, governance and artificial intelligence to improve confidence in the ...