How Salesforce.com plans to stay high in the clouds
One of four co-founders, Parker Harris has been a quietly powerful force in the success of Salesforce.com, which has grown to nearly $7 billion and earned a top spot in the CRM market since launching...
View ArticleSilver Peak CEO: We're re-imagining the WAN for a cloud world
Silver Peak, Inc., made its name as a top provider of wide-area network optimization capabilities. But the company has its sights set on a loftier goal today: Completely changing the way you build...
View ArticleProgress Software CEO: We're honored to serve dev community
Progress Software has been helping developers build better applications since Ronald Reagan was president -- in his first term. Along the way, the company, which boasts a base of more than 1.7 million...
View ArticleQ&A: Why Syncsort introduced the mainframe to Hadoop
When you think of leaders in big data and analytics, you’d be forgiven for not listing Syncsort among them. But this nearly 50-year-old company, which began selling software for the decidedly...
View ArticleQ&A: As prices fall, flash memory is eating the world
Western Digital in October announced plans to acquire SanDisk for some $19 billion in a deal that -- once finalized -- will marry leaders in the traditional hard drive and the emerging flash memory...
View ArticleHow BMC's CEO plans to cut your IT costs by a third
In 2013, venerable IT management vendor BMC Software went private, a move that CEO Bob Beauchamp says enabled the company to invest heavily in modernizing technology, fresh leadership and a new...
View ArticleQ&A: Meg Whitman explains what HP Enterprise is all about
Meg Whitman doesn't shy away from a challenge. She led eBay from tiny startup to household name, ran for governor of California, and, nearly five years ago, took the helm at Hewlett-Packard and...
View ArticleThe IoT company behind the curtain
Greenwave Systems is sort of the BASF of Internet of things: It doesn't make the IoT products you buy, it makes them better. Greenwave (one of Network World's recently named IoT Companies to Watch)...
View ArticleQ&A: SnapLogic tackles app integration in cloud era
Gaurav Dhillon knows a thing or two about integration. In his twenties, he co-founded Informatica and helped thousands of enterprises deal with the challenges of application and data integration in...
View ArticleCiena CEO: We're not just about service providers
For more than 15 years, Gary Smith has been at the helm of Ciena, leading the company through the so-called ‘telecom nuclear winter’ following the early 2000s dot-com bust to its global leadership...
View ArticleVMware CEO pledges cloud computing freedom
In what’s become something of an annual tradition, we talked with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at the outset of the virtualization leader’s VMworld 2016 conference. In this interview with Network World...
View ArticleOracle CEO Mark Hurd: We have the whole cloud stack
Few enterprise IT transformations can match the importance of today’s long migration from on-premises, client-server computing to cloud computing. This week at Oracle’s mammoth OpenWorld conference in...
View ArticleHow Anaplan makes dynamic strategic planning a reality
Anaplan doesn’t come up in many conversations about unicorns – you know, the Ubers, Airbnbs and SnapChats of the world. But if your company is struggling with strategic planning, Anaplan is one...
View ArticleMichael Dell tells IT leaders all they need to know about the new Dell...
In September, Dell and EMC finalized the largest ever merger of tech companies, creating privately held Dell Technologies - a "family" of companies that provides everything from PCs to hyperconverged...
View ArticleWant to run your own Amazon 'region'? Stratoscale shows you how
Stratoscale is a small company with a very big ambition: to turn your datacenter into an Amazon Web Services (AWS) region. Forget OpenStack, forget VMware. Stratoscale aims to help IT shops get beyond...
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