While technology companies compete for sectors within the emerging cloud marketplace, Amazon Web Services Inc. hopes to dominate the field in the public sector — which includes government, education in domestic and international regions. AWS is actively disrupting the public sector in a manner similar to its rapid rise in in the commercial market, in that it’s leaving legacy ...

As the federal government embraces cloud, what are the kinds of questions they’re wrestling with? The biggest concerns are cost efficiency and fast delivery for cloud services, and Nutanix Inc. is rising to the challenge. Dealing with the unique issues that face governmental requirements, Nutanix creates innovative solutions that help the public sector visualize their gains through cloud, according to Dan Fallon (pictured), ...

Computing networks are not going away, but the business world of software development and data storage is changing due to cloud technologies. So how are storage companies adapting to this new world of cloud computing? “The big focal area we have is turning the corner that we’re no longer an infrastructural hardware provider. We’re data management; we’re ...

Empathy, a welcoming community and trust are essential to propelling the burgeoning culture of containers’ virtualized application management technology and its dedicated software developers forward. Discussing these industry-shaping concepts at the recently concluded DockerCon event in San Francisco were Bret Fisher (pictured, right), author of the course “Docker Mastery: The Complete Toolset From a Docker Captain,” and Nirmal Mehta (pictured, ...

It’s an exciting future for technology, with end-to-end visibility throughout a network a true possibility.  And the ways these things have come together is through innovation that goes back years, according to John Apostolopoulos (pictured), vice president and chief technology officer for enterprise networking business and lab director for Innovation Labs at Cisco Systems Inc. “So ...

As developers continue to become the new kingmakers, Cisco Systems Inc. has built up a new developer framework that is being built on top of networks, called Cisco DevNet, that is now 500,000 strong. “When we were pushing it, we were just saying, ‘Hey, the network is changing. The network is going to be programmable. ...

The question may no longer be, “Is cloud worth it?” for modern day businesses. The question may now be, “What kind of cloud is right?” And as technology providers wrestle with how to deliver the best solutions, sometimes collaboration is key. “It used to be that it was a ‘cloud-first strategy,'” said Vinu Thomas (pictured, right), chief technology ...

The modern landscape of information technology is changing rapidly, and computing services provider Fujitsu Ltd. is comparing that landscape to the way car companies are changing the way they make cars for customers. “When I was young … I bought a car, and then I started to integrate different things: a stereo, speaker systems, whatsoever kind ...

Building a strong global community around data management and tools, SAP SE has seen huge success through its overall SAP online community. But SAP wanted to take that further by building smaller communities within SAP that would focus around its different offerings, such as SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system. So how has ...

Dell EMC recently declared success on its mission to accelerate its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio growth. It’s now the number one HCI provider in the market. “The obvious thing that everybody sees is the power of the portfolio that we now have,” said Chad Dunn (pictured, left), vice president of product management and marketing at Dell EMC. “So having the power ...