Nutanix Inc. added the first software as a service product to its portfolio with the acquisition in March of Minjar Inc. The new offering included Minjar’s Botmetric intelligent cloud optimization tool, designed to deliver automated financial governance, security and compliance for the multicloud environment. The new tool was officially rolled out this month as Nutanix Beam, ...

The licensing of open-source software is complicated and runs counter to human intuition. Developers put their blood, sweat and tears into creating an elegant piece of software and then sign away the copyrights so that others can use and improve on it free and clear. Say what? The tech community has been grappling with this ...

Accenture LLP is one of only five companies to be named a Global Strategic Partner with ServiceNow Inc. That designation took on added meaning last month when the professional services firm was recognized as the overall leader in a report that evaluated the partner ecosystem of software as a service providers. “ServiceNow is a very ...

The evolution of ServiceNow Inc. from a company that provided help desk management 10 years ago to a rapidly growing software as a service and cloud powerhouse today, with a $2 billion annual run rate, started from within. A combination of cultural change and management discipline has propelled the firm forward. An important component that ...

Red Hat Inc. went to great lengths on Tuesday to deliver a message of partnership with some of the biggest companies in the world, specifically IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. The theme on Wednesday was more customer-focused with a direct message for the tech community at large: Open-source software is growing up and it is ...

The tagline of this week’s Red Hat Summit in San Francisco is, “If you are interested in open-source, you should be here.” It looks like IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. took the advice to heart. Tuesday’s news that IBM and Microsoft would be joining forces with Red Hat Inc. on a set of OpenShift platform ...

When it comes to cloud computing applications, Oracle Corp. is all about self: self-repairing, self-securing and self-driving. After rolling out its Data Warehouse Cloud in March, Oracle doubled down today on its autonomous capabilities with the general availability of built-in artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for its analytics, integration and visual builder cloud services. ...

There are a lot of things in life that most people could do without and not feel the irritation of inconvenience. Plumbing is not one of them, and in many ways the work of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation might fall into a similar category. “I sometimes describe it as the plumbing software for the ...

The new Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Developer Community program officially launched in late November last year. It is already attracting interest among those in the coding community who are seeking ways to collaborate directly with HPE engineers, build cutting-edge apps, and solve problems. “In the last two-and-a-half months, we’ve seen a significant uptick in people ...

When Google designed Kubernetes and then turned the container project over to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it could have simply walked away. Yet, as recent announcements indicate, Google Inc. has every intention to stay involved and continue to offer new enhancements. This was amply demonstrated with Google’s recent release of Kubeflow and Stackdriver Kubernetes ...