While many try to overcomplicate and monopolize matters of technology in today’s trend towards digital transformation, it’s important for organizations to simplify tech solutions and realize that there is no such thing as a monopoly when it comes to cloud solutions, according to David Richards (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of software company WANdisco PLC. Richards recently discussed his ...

Placing its bets on big data, betting and gaming company William Hill PLC is playing for high stakes in the world of artificial intelligence-boosted IT services. Based in the U.K. and expanding in the U.S. since 2012, William Hill has a wealth of gaming data from bets on sporting events, presidential elections and weather patterns to name a few. ...

While many dream of entrepreneurial fame in the tech world, few realize that what may seem like overnight success is often an accumulation of hard work over many years, not to mention the countless tough decisions for company founders. Alex Solomon (pictured), co-founder and chief technology officer of PagerDuty Inc., shared his story of co-founding PagerDuty in 2009, ...

As technology companies work with enterprises on their digital transformations, data and its security is top of mind. Because there are so many factors to consider, from data access permissions to methods of intelligently detecting breaches, transformative efforts based on digital assets can quickly get complicated. So what are technology companies doing to help educate their customers ...

The idea of customer experience and user experience originated in the technology world, eventually making their ways into other industries. But some technology companies are taking these ideas even further, advocating for company-wide change and spurring others to always be thinking about the end goal: a customer’s complete satisfaction from purchase of product or service ...

Gone are the days when it was thought that customers would flock to the cloud and throw away on-premises data centers forever. But even as hyperconverged infrastructure continues to move enterprises forward with cloud, companies are still keeping their on-prem stack alive and well. And technology companies like VMware Inc. are continuing to face these demands. ...

In the digital transformation, big data is at the center for enterprises, but it’s not just about the size of data and databases that will ensure success. It’s about the time that it takes for the data to be transferred from the database to the applications that need it. Time is everything — and technology ...

The idea of running a multicloud environment is pretty daunting for a lot of enterprises. Businesses may wonder how they go about choosing where to put things and how they should actually move things around. The network plays a key part in all of this — a complex part that is hard to navigate but ...

Natural disasters can be a nightmare for data storage and disaster recovery, making sure digital reservoirs remains safe and unaffected no matter what is going on outside. One data center operations leader recently experienced the importance of effectively thinking through these concepts during the deadly wildfires that raged through Sonoma County and other parts of California in October ...

While many think that choosing a cloud computing option should be simple, it’s actually very complex. In fact, most companies are already using multiple clouds, and they may be wasting up to 35 percent of their cloud usage, according to a RightScaleInc.’s  “State of the Cloud Survey,” losing money in the process. Choosing the right ...