As VMware Inc. reinvents its technical vision and transforms into a cloud and subscription-based model, the company is looking to shape the future of enterprise cloud computing for the long haul. “There’s a lot of changes we’ve got to make internally,” said Kit Colbert (pictured), chief technology officer of VMware. “Technologies, platform services we need to build out … ...

While enterprise computing is a lucrative business for cloud service providers, the public sector has historically been an elusive yet tempting market to crack. Hybrid solutions and security advancements have opened doors for an expanding ecosystem in the public sector, as compliance is an unavoidable obligation to support mission-critical workloads and applications. StackArmor, through its ...

Many aspects of conventional manufacturing are undoubtedly becoming antiquated. In the age of cloud computing, robotic process automation and data-driven decision making, it was just a matter of time until these technologies made their way to the realm of manufacturing in a palpable manner. That time is now, and smart factories are poised to gain ...

A business is, at its core, an amalgam of processes working in tandem to achieve a set of results — including profitability. These processes are created, implemented and refined over time as the corporate entity scales, pivots or reaches new heights of revenue and/or profitability. Recently, technology-focused companies have also begun to invest in process ...

Robotic process automation is a field that has reached maturity. And while RPA can be applied in fields like customer onboarding, data entry and migration, sales and lead nurturing, testing is one of the breakthrough areas where the importance of automation is being felt. “RPA is a business-critical software that runs in your production environment, and ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to rethink operations. From the working culture to product catalogs and, more specifically, seasonal conferences, the change is pervasive and has brought forth some creative approaches to audience engagement. VMware’s annual event is one of those instances, as the virtualization giant has embraced a new direction for an ...

In most cases, the government of any country is its largest employer of labor. The U.S. government alone handles more than 2,600 data centers within its borders, the largest of any nation. Governmental operations involve large swathes of information that need to be processed, put to use and stored in a secure environment. Now is ...

Defense, healthcare and emergency services are three building blocks to successful societies. The needs for all three, as well as the way in which they are executed, have become more intricate. Thus, governments like the United States are leveraging cloud technologies from solutions providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. to keep these public sector areas ...

Following the emergence of the space race in the 1960s, wealthy countries worldwide have engaged in constant competition to push the boundaries further on space travel and planetary exploration. This trajectory has spanned accomplishments like satellite technology, moon landings and Mars landings. Now, Amazon Web Services Inc. is making public its plans to further expand ...

There is shifting marketplace momentum in favor of bringing a part of the cloud experience to organizations’ on-premises operations — in essence hybrid solutions. Businesses are looking to their technology partners for environments where their cloud data resources are protected, cost-efficient and can generate the degree of insights required. “We have a scenario where we’re ...