High-performance computing has traditionally been thought of as something that happens in government labs and supercomputers and is not used widely. But it is also happening in businesses around the world in energy exploration, manufacturing, drug discovery and financial modeling. And HPC is starting to be used on the cloud in more and more ways.  “High-performance ...

As the world continues to digitally transform — something that found new urgency this year as a result of a global pandemic — enterprises are beginning to incorporate more automation into what they do every day. But Chris Wright (pictured), senior vice president and chief technology officer of Red Hat Inc., argues that companies need to entirely rethink automation. ...

International Data Corp., a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services and events for the information technology industry, has been doing research on the effects of COVID-19 and the convergence of cloud strategies. So what does the research show? “Obviously, with COVID, a lot of folks have pivoted or accelerated their move to the cloud in ...

2020 has been a year not quite like any other for ThousandEyes Inc., a network intelligence company that produces software that analyzes the performance of local and wide area networks. Cisco Systems Inc. completed acquiring the company in August, and this took place in the midst of dealing with a pandemic where people worked from home ...

When COVID-19 first hit in early 2020, many enterprises thought the abrupt change to remote work would be temporary. But as October begins, things are still looking as if everyone will be working and living in a digital world for a lot longer than anyone might have expected. Many schools are online, and a lot ...

As VMware Inc. continues to embrace cloud and the digital transformation, it relies on a lot of big partnerships, including its decade-long alliance with IBM. So how is the partnership with VMware and IBM going these days, especially when it pertains to data storage and security? “We do have a very long relationship and history with VMware,” said Sam ...

In February, Mirantis Inc. acquired Kontena Inc., the company behind Lens, a popular Kubernetes integrated development environment. Tracking its development even before Mirantis’ acquisition was  Matti Paksula (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of Supervisor.com. He watched Kontena grow Lens as a very early adopter of the environment. “I’d been working with those guys from 2015 or so,” Paksula said. “I was ...

When it comes to Kubernetes clusters, enterprises usually want to have a centralized system where they can manage multiples of these node machines for running containerized technology. And while some companies provide management systems for on-premises, public cloud and multicloud, most of these technologies are designed for the operations side of things, not necessarily for ...

As the demand for digital transformation becomes accelerated as a result of COVID-19, there is a huge amount of interest from enterprises to build applications, integrate them, modernize systems and automate all of them very quickly and easily in a cost-effective manner. And more and more companies are wanting solutions where it doesn’t take deep knowledge of ...

Nutanix Inc. has made a string of announcements over the last few months, including the new $750-million investment from Bain Capital Private Equity, a partnership with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services as part of its hybrid multicloud vision with Nutanix Clusters, and a partnership with Google on desktop as a service. So how is Nutanix delivering on its overarching messaging and execution strategies ...