Historically, VMware Inc.‘s VMworld conference was one of the big three enterprise tech conferences, along with the RSA Conference and AWS re:Invent, that was large enough to transcend its primary sponsor, thus becoming one of the must-attend conferences of the year. In contrast, this week VMware hosted the newly renamed VMware Explore conference – about one-third ...

The precise direction of VMware Inc.’s future is unknown, given the planned Broadcom Inc. acquisition, but one thing is clear: The subject of what Broadcom Chief Executive Hock E. Tan plans will not be the main focus of the agenda at the upcoming VMware Explore event next week in San Francisco. We believe that despite ...

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s oft-quoted prediction that “software is eating the world” is borne out by Forrester Research Inc.’s latest global software industry forecast. Inflationary pressures, higher interest rates and geopolitical turmoil are expected to have little impact on a market for infrastructure and application software that should exceed $400 billion by 2023. That reflects ...

Cybersecurity professionals packed the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas this past week for the annual Black Hat USA confab, largely discarding their masks as they thronged into pre-COVID-style crowds. Security vendors large and small plied their wares, giving enterprise security professionals plenty of products to add to their cyber shopping list. Although many ...

Hyperscale cloud providers are increasingly making headlines with the launch of new “industry cloud” platforms. Industry clouds platforms create value for enterprises by bringing together traditionally separately purchased cloud services in a pre-integrated, but adaptable way. Industry clouds offer not just technical but also business capabilities that are specifically relevant to identified vertical industries. Leaders ...

Sustainable business is a strategy that incorporates environmental, social and governance factors into decision-making, and it is becoming an increasingly important component of business strategy. In fact, in a recent Gartner survey, chief executives identified environmental sustainability as a top 10 business priority for the first time in a decade. Technology is an essential part ...

The rapid shift to hybrid work has transformed where and how work happens. Today’s workers are more likely to hop online from their home office than from the company’s main office, creating new challenges for the information technology security teams charged with keeping networks safe — and moving the edge to front and center. Amid ...

Two mainstays drive most application migration and modernization initiatives. First, organizations are moving workloads to the cloud as an innovation catalyst. Achieving their strategic goals requires the speed, agility, reliability and advanced technical capabilities available to them in a hyperscale cloud. Second, they’re intent on ensuring the return on investment through cost optimization, which is ...

What comes to mind when you hear “open source?” Is it a community? Better-quality software? A technology advantage that helps companies scale quickly? If so, congratulations. You understand the value developing with open-source software can bring to a business — despite a lot of noise to the contrary. Recent headlines about OSS vulnerabilities paint open-source tools ...

In the last year and a half, information technology departments have been critical to companies’ ability to amend their operational models and enable employees to work remotely. The responsibility for enabling their companies to navigate this transition — and prepare for an uncertain future — has given IT departments a considerable boost in strategic significance across ...