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ANALYSIS
The 5 best predictions we got right about VMware, and one we got totally wrong
Ten years ago a startup obsessed with enterprise computing and cloud-native broadcast media invited some friends to geek out at VMworld, discussing technology’s biggest trends at a tiny news desk in the lobby of Moscone West conference center in San Francisco. VMware Inc. was founded more than two decades ago, but its annual VMworld conference ...
Lululemon sniffs out spending snags and opportunities with Coupa’s data insights
The table stakes have changed in the digital era, where data is supposed to justify business decisions. For retailer lululemon athletica inc., data helps the procurement team follow the money. “The table stakes today is just managing spend — knowing where your money goes and trying to make sure we stretch the dollars,” said Michael ...
Prevailing on a path less taken, Infinidat upgrades software-led storage solutions
Digital business today is defined by the treatment of data as an asset. With new data economies come new demands for storage and data portability across on-premises and cloud-computing architectures. While technology’s service providers are anxious to emerge victorious in this multicloud world, Infinidat Inc. has taken the path less traveled to find a better ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
Peak hype: Can Kubernetes survive the booms and busts of cloud services?
Five years after its creation, Kubernetes has become all the rage in open-source computing. The free platform for managing container orchestration is helping along digital transformation initiatives across the enterprise landscape, automating away the tough work of deploying and monitoring software applications in multicloud and hybrid cloud environments. So will the Kubernetes ecosystem continue to ...
Making mole hills of mountains, Qlik breaks down data’s biggest barriers
What’s a 25-year-old data analytics company look like? Even before the big data era, Qlik Technologies Inc. has been in the business of visualizing and actionizing business information. More than two decades on, the company maintains a straightforward philosophy to data organization and early work in artificial intelligence. With new markets come new challenges, as ...
How R&D culture impacts acquisitions and trend-spotting at VMware
It’s All-Stars season for VMware Inc. The virtualization company rounds out a week of recognition with RADIO, a one-day gathering to honor VMware’s elite engineers. The annual research and development event follows close behind VMware’s Sales Club ceremonies. For Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger (pictured), the back-to-back events are characteristic of VMware’s culture and worthy ...
ANALYSIS
Keynote analysis: AWS Summit spotlights builders and data that keep AWS strong
With upwards of 12,000 attendees for AWS Summit’s one-day event in London, it’s hard to imagine that nearly 15 years ago Amazon Web Services Inc. was so little regarded as a true player in the public cloud market. “AWS announced its first service in 2006, very quietly announcing EC2, a compute service nobody really paid ...
Watch live: Red Hat Summit 2019 exclusive videos and analysis
Expected to be the final Red Hat Summit before its acquisition by IBM Corp. closes, the annual open-source conference will be a nostalgic mix of sharing work cultures while building new norms. Representing this transition will be the keynote speakers, spanning the leadership across both companies. Sharing the stage over the course of the summit ...
Watch live, exclusive interviews and analysis at Dell Technologies World
With a monumental merger in the rear-view mirror, Dell Technologies Inc. has seemingly settled into its new position as a massive conglomerate of storage, networking and software services. Having acquired EMC and majority shares of VMware Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc., and returning to Wall Street after going private for five years, Dell has weathered the ...
Q&A
Raising AI: Do parents make better AI systems for modern business?
Part truth, part sci-fi, the notion of rogue artificial intelligence is gaining a lot of attention — for good reason. As the creators of AI, humans hold responsibility over sentient machines in a manner similar to parental duties. But as AI matures into programs that can spawn and train themselves, things become less explainable by humans ...