In a bid to explore new frontiers in cloud through research, open-source project contributions and new software development, Cisco Systems Inc. created Outshift out of its existing incubation operation. The first fruit of that endeavor, Panoptica, is a Kubernetes-native platform that secures the cloud-native application development cycle from code to cloud. “To us in Outshift, ...

By providing in-depth visibility into an organization’s performance within specific areas, analytics and business intelligence are integral to the enterprise today. But with issues such as tooling fragmentation and collaborative complexities plaguing an already-mature analytics industry, how is the status quo being improved for companies to unlock new value delivery and cost efficiency areas? “We ...

The booming cloud computing market is increasingly becoming use-case specific, with products targeted at specific industries and their respective operations. A few emerging trends are driving this move toward specialization, including the emergence of artificial intelligence for automation, the popularity of hybrid multicloud and edge computing. “From a market perspective, if you look at where the ...

Partnerships are the backbone upon which innovation is sustained in the enterprise computing space. Dell Technologies Inc. has strengthened its partnership with Red Hat Inc. to co-engineer a hybrid solution that ensures the consistent extension of on-premise Red Hat OpenShift deployments across public clouds and the edge. “We’ve been a partner with Red Hat for ...

With very high turnaround times and slim margins for error, the tightly-run ships that are industrial operations have benefitted from transformation — especially at the edge. Industrial automation giant ABB Ltd. has seen considerable success in helping customers manage and operationalize edge-generated data. “The edge is where all of the data from the industrial plants that we ...

The need for IT modernization and cloud transformation is especially pertinent in companies operating complex supply chains. One of those is the automotive aftermarket parts provider Advance Auto Parts Inc., which has undergone rigorous cloud transformation for reduced time to value and increased speed of innovation. “It’s life in the fast lane at a Fortune ...

Spanning more than 20 years, the partnership between Red Hat Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has focused on delivering open-source solutions underpinned by Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. With a year having passed since HPE GreenLake for Red Hat OpenShift was announced, how is ...

Several announcements headlined this week’s Red Hat Summit event, one of which was Ansible Lightspeed, an offshoot of last year’s Project Wisdom, geared toward the artificial intelligence-driven automation of IT workloads. On the backend, Red Hat Inc. has also invested in improving the overall experience for Ansible developers, in addition to securing critical software supply chains. “I ...

The world’s future-forward companies share one understanding: the unavoidable need to digitize with purposive business transformation strategies. Different industries have varying transformation needs, and health insurance service provider Elevance Health Inc. (formerly Anthem Inc.) has opted for a purpose-driven approach enabled by IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. “When we looked at digital experiences as we ...

While edge computing has always presented its set of challenges and security concerns, its ability to create new business profitability avenues is evident. Features such as artificial intelligence are becoming more capable as IT infrastructures meld with operational technology for edge-driven transformation at scale, according to Christine Boles (pictured, right), vice president of the Network and ...