If a company’s clients came for risk management, how does it convince them to stay to gamble on digital innovation? Newer trends in cloud computing and digital and social marketing are racking up proof points to convert even those with much to lose. Openlink Financial LLC is a leader in the market for trading, treasury and risk management ...

Building and deploying software with serverless computing functions is easier and cheaper than the worn infrastructure-first route. It may also be better than containers’ virtual method for running distributed software applications for some net-new applications. And new efforts are smoothing rickety on-premises-to-cloud portability. With such momentum, it seems nothing can keep 2018 from being the year ...

It may have lost the market lead in hyperconverged infrastructure to Dell EMC, but Nutanix Inc. could make up for it in new terrain. In its refreshed branding, the HC in HCI might as well stand for hybrid cloud. The company is betting this will attract more customers, pushing further into multicloud management with its just-released Acropolis Operating System ...

Not shy about sharing its playbook with the world, Amazon Web Services Inc. is open about its winning strategies. As AWS Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy often states in interviews, the company ignores competition and focuses 100 percent on customers’ desires. It’s a sure cue for rivals hoping to snag some cloud business from the market leader. ...

The superstore underlying Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Marketplace, is home to 4,200 software listings from 1,300 vendors. As AWS rafts across diverse domains like machine learning and virtual reality, it’s overlapping with Marketplace partners, inevitably competing with them. But for now, these AWS-affiliated startups are holding their own in emerging areas of hybrid cloud security and next-gen ...

Call it the Google effect. The simpler and more intuitive an application, the more sophisticated the technology that built it. With microservices, businesses are building more such apps, which demand more powerful and approachable monitoring, according to Christoph Pfister (pictured), executive vice president of products at SolarWinds Worldwide LLC. “These apps have become massively complex,” Pfister said. ...

The grass is greener in the cloud than on-premises — for greenfield applications. A quick-and-dirty lift-and-shift to the cloud can leave legacy applications homesick for hardware, according to Rishi Yadav (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of Zettabytes Inc. “Nobody’s talking about that,” Yadav said. The persnickety requirements of diverse apps are lost in endless ...

“Cord-cutting” has disrupted old-school TV-show-viewing means and machines, making audiences a tougher target for programmers to pin down. Born and bred in broadcast, Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. is chasing them on and off the tube with agile cloud computing. “The whole consumption method for all of our end users is changing,” said Mark Kelly (pictured), director of ...

Applications spread around multicloud infrastructure are difficult to manage from a technical perspective; budgeting and controlling cost for them — particularity, software as a service apps — can be equally tricky. “SaaS has enabled shadow IT in a way that we’ve never seen,” said Mike Gersten (pictured, right), global innovation and strategy officer at SoftwareONE AG. The ...

When Cisco Systems Inc. acquired software-defined network startup Viptela Inc. earlier this year, some saw a flat-footed legacy trying to buy relevance. The 33-year-old multinational giant, however, is infusing Viptela with more than the $610-million check it plunked down for it, according to Manan Shah (pictured), director of product management at Cisco Systems. The companies are ...