What does one chief information officer have to say about the changing landscape of information technology? A lot! Cathy Southwick (pictured) spent over 21 years of her career at telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. in a variety of roles — from IT operations, to infrastructure, to project management, to technology innovation. She most recently became CIO of storage solutions company Pure ...

As the world moves toward AIOps — the application of artificial intelligence for IT operations — it’s not an easy change for many large enterprises. So what’s the reality of working as a customer and supplier to implement radical technological changes within larger enterprise legacy systems? Rob Gruener (pictured, left), service delivery manager at Telstra Corp. Ltd., ...

“Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women in Tech” was written by Pratima Rao Gluckman (pictured) and released in April 2018. One year since it’s publication, the book has seen huge success, and Gluckman, the engineering leader for blockchain at VMware Inc., has had numerous conversations in Silicon Valley and all over the country with women inside ...

Women may still have a glass ceiling to break, but companies like VMware Inc., are trying to help them crash through with creative initiatives that are helping to equalize the workforce and make it easier to for women to thrive in the workplace. “VMware is a great place for diversity and inclusion. That is one of ...

What are larger enterprises looking for when it comes to automation? There are two major things that must come first before automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning: simplification of the tool sets required, and continuing to make sure data is in a good place, according to Nigel Wilks (pictured, left), head of technical platform and tooling ...

Nutanix Inc. celebrates its 10th anniversary this September — an impressive feat in today’s highly volatile technology landscape. As a company that enables enterprises to build multicloud architectures, it recently announced a global partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) to host Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software on HPE server technology. So how has Nutanix successfully kept up with the ever-changing world of ...

Automation for all. While this may seem like a dream, Automation Anywhere Inc. is working to make it a reality through its initiative to bring automation to everyone — not just larger corporations or enterprises. “The vision that we are driving towards is automation for all,” said Kashif Mahbub (pictured), vice president of marketing at Automation Anywhere. “By ...

As the world embraces the internet of things, coming up with trendy and flashy gadgets every day, there are entire industrial spheres where IoT has to evolve in a different way. So what is the main difference between consumer IoT and industrial IoT? “If you think about consumer IoT, it’s what grabs headlines,” said Narbeh Derhacobian (pictured), president ...

As artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and machine learning become more prominent, there is a lot of misinformation and fear about what these technologies actually do and if they will replace people at work. But instead of taking away people’s jobs, according to some, AI can help people do their work better. And this is ...

What does it take to create a satisfactory user experience that blends innovative technology with real customer needs? Turns out a huge component is empathy, according to Amy Lokey (pictured), vice president of user experience, G Suite, at Google. At the Google Cloud Next event this week in San Francisco, Lokey weighed in on the qualities that ...