When does a hot-ticket company in a cooling market jump on the bandwagon of a new technology? NetApp Inc. is transforming its healthy storage business into data management for multicloud computing environments. Tuning out media hype and Wall Street analysts, the company instead let customers, empowered by interactive marketing, call the play. “Our customers aren’t ...

The trend away from physical data centers toward cloud and software as a service allows businesses to get out of plumbing and work smarter, not harder. Or, in the case of serverless computing and functions as a service, the phrase should be “work dumber, not harder,” according to Ben Kehoe (pictured), cloud robotics research scientist at iRobot Corp. ...

Cloud infrastructure freed businesses from on-premises servers, a concept further simplified with containers’ virtualized method for packaging and distributing software applications. Now serverless computing is the logical next step to total infrastructure freedom — and breaking the information technology-business barrier, according to Mark Nunnikhoven (pictured), vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro Inc. “Serverless is that last step on the ...

Even as many companies are still getting the hang of containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), vendors touting newfangled serverless computing jostle for attention. Luckily, even developers clueless about serverless can start building applications with it thanks to its bustling community, according to Linda Nichols (pictured), Cloud Enablement Leader, Cloudreach Europe Ltd. “When new people ...

We’ve all heard of phishing — the use of fraudulent electronic exchanges by hackers seeking sensitive information like usernames and passwords. Now cybercriminals have expanded their repertoire to include vishing — basically voice phishing by phone. And the mere act of posting photos online could turn users into victims. “I can just bypass every security protocol you’ve set up. ...

The now infamous Google memo and recent sexual harassment charges against Uber Technologies Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc. are a few gender-related incidents in Silicon Valley to make headlines this year. What is a female techie to do in such a divisive environment? Keep calm and code on, according to Jigyasa Grover (pictured), Facebook scholarship recipient and Red Hat Women ...

Product developers and other professionals with diverse backgrounds might boost a project with the varying insights they bring to the table. But what about the classic too many cooks in the kitchen problem? Can managers set guidelines to keep motley teams from sliding into chaos? “Absolutely, there is a stated goal,” said Vipul Nagrath (pictured), global chief information ...

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, founded in 1997, has grown into a multinational force that promotes girls and women at all stages of their careers. The Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing series of conferences are the largest gatherings for women in tech in the world. Named after computer scientist and United States ...

Big data software makers are throwing every possible technology at the business insight and monetization problem with little success. Perhaps taking a step back from machine intelligence to human intelligence would yield better results. “The science experiment phase of the big data world is over; people now have to show a return on investment,” said Nenshad ...

Women hold 25 percent of computing jobs, according to the National Center for Women and Technology. Who are these individuals? What lessons have they learned about gender, politics and profit in technology? The GroundTruth Project is a journalism organization exploring these questions through the personal stories of women in tech. “We’re re-upping our women-in-tech-women-in-leadership fellowship this year, which we’re really ...