When the news hit on October 29, 2018, that IBM Corp. had acquired Red Hat Inc., in a $34 billion deal, it stunned the technology world. And with good reason, as Red Hat’s merging with IBM was the biggest software acquisition ever achieved. But beyond the hype, what will this actually mean for Red Hat ...

Since VMware Inc., and Amazon Web Services Inc. announced their partnership in 2016 with offerings such as VMware Cloud on AWS, the two previously fierce competitors have continued to deepen their partnership. As Amazon RDS on VMware — which helps customers deploy managed databases in on-premises VMware environments — begins previewing for customers, Amazon just announced another service called Amazon ...

While storage solutions have been changing rapidly as the digital transformation charges forward, optimism continues to grow about the future advancements of computing storage and memory. In fact, the hard disk drive may soon become a thing of the past, according to Derek Dicker (pictured), corporate vice president and general manager of the Storage Business Unit at Micron ...

Bahrain may be a small country, but it is positioned to become a digital country by 2035, and it’s leaders are looking to the future where its citizens will have unique opportunities with technologies surrounding a cloud-first policy. The country is accomplishing this through a groundbreaking partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. “Our leaders said, ‘We are ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to expand outside of the U.S. On September 4, 2018, it signed a memorandum of understanding with the country of Kuwait to help spur the country’s vision of being a digital country by 2035. The MOU was signed in Washington, D.C., between Kuwait’s Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority and Teresa Carlson, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. recently announced that it’s setting up shop in the Middle East for the first time — in the country of Bahrain, to be specific. In early 2019, AWS will launch in the region with three Availability Zones, which will give their Middle Eastern customers and partners the ability to run workloads and store data with minimal latency. And the ...

As data becomes the new currency for modern-day businesses, many are still seeing challenges in being able to use their data in meaningful, tangible ways. This can hinder a business from moving forward and staying competitive, and it’s crucial to continue supporting efforts to help businesses know how best to handle their data. “Data becomes ...

MicrosoftCorp. turned 43 this year. And while that’s old by technology standards, the company’s age isn’t stopping it from continuing to staunchly advocate for the digital transformation. But from an analyst’s perspective, what steps are Microsoft taking to stay relevant as a multinational giant? Weighing in on Microsoft’s advancements in the digital age is Patrick Moorhead (pictured), founder, president and ...

While the education sector can sometimes be restricted in its adoption of technological innovations, the digital transformation is coming to the Ivy League — and the information technology professionals at Brown University are wrestling with the same kinds of conversations that enterprises are asking. Chris Menard (pictured), lead storage administrator at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has a ...

Is Hadoop dying? Will cloud solutions help mark the end of an era when companies relied on Hadoop for essential information technology and data operations like file systems and storage and server scheduling? Yaron Haviv (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of Iguazio Systems Ltd, believes that Hadoop may be outmaneuvered in the future with other ...