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Red Hat talks project vs. product in enterprise open source
A lot of companies are ditching proprietary technology products in favor of open-source software. Others find they’re not quite ready to forgo vendor support. This is where the open-source as a service business model comes in. The difference between open-source projects and plug-and-play products can sometimes confuse customers, according to Paul Cormier (pictured), president of products ...
Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab scraps proprietary prefab for open source
Securing a nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile sounds like scarily sensitive, classified work. What type of technology is worthy of such a task? Custom-made, proprietary stuff with all associated components and code unknown to the public? Not at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The facility is a big user of and contributor to open source, ...
Nutanix taps partners VMware, HPE to feed market’s turnkey need
Nutanix Inc. built its brand on compressing and compacting technologies together. It began with hyperconverged infrastructure and has since spun out various software offerings. It continues its mission to integrate and stitch multiple pieces into a single, easy user experience. Nutanix is designing solutions that include its own product portfolio, as well as product form ...
How Delta’s legacy ‘baggage’ is helping it soar through DX
What can a 90-year-old company bring to today’s digital, data-driven, mobile economy? Are they necessarily handicapped compared to younger companies with less legacy baggage? Delta Air Lines Inc. is sallying into the world of modern information technology and actually blending in its old stuff — and staff — for the better. “Legacy’s like a four-letter ...
DBS bank brings open-source in house to up company tech quotient
Lots of companies dream of breaking up with proprietary technology vendors and going full open source. Much leading-edge innovation is happening outside stuffy corporations in vibrant open-source communities. But can companies with major up-time requirements and security obligations depend on free software with no support or supervision? A number of years ago, DBS Bank Ltd. decided ...
Easy tools break blockchain out the box for new use cases
By now, the masses have heard of blockchain. They may understand loosely what the technology is — a distributed ledger for recording cryptocurrency transactions. Yet there’s a whole crateload of other capabilities most folks haven’t heard of. The potential use cases are there, but they’ve been stifled by unwieldy tools and interfaces built for software developers, ...
Dell spills road-tested tips to digitally transform legacy IT, business
Can anyone briefly, accurately define digital transformation for the enterprise? It broadly has to do with modernizing and becoming more data-driven and end-user focused. But there are many technology service vendors and experts wielding different road maps to DX. Is there anywhere to turn for real-life examples from companies walking the talk? Dell Technologies Inc. ...
VMware revamps partner program to up its SaaS game
VMware Inc. has been busily changing clothes to fit into the new information-technology world. While its first attempt at a public-cloud offering flopped, it appears to have recovered. It now enjoys multiple hybrid and on-premises cloud partnerships. It is also revamping its partner program to foster innovative software as a service offerings. The virtualization pioneer just ...
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The race is on to bring public cloud on-prem: Who’s leading?
The major cloud providers are all throwing their hats into the cloud on-premises ring. It makes market sense since most enterprise customers aren’t abandoning their data centers. But can companies really enjoy public cloud from the comfort of home? Are these vendors “cloudwashing” ho-hum data-center tech? Are any really delivering the cloud operating model on-premises? The ...
Digitally transforming? Get boring stuff done with streamlined, automated solutions
Dell EMC is a lot of things — in a quite literal sense. It has a huge portfolio of computing products complete with technology some may see as legacy baggage. But its position straddling the hardware-legacy and cloud-native worlds isn’t without its advantages. It makes the company kindred to many enterprise customers also in limbo. Dell ...
