Ticketmaster began as a Microsoft shop, it's now using MySQL on premise and is headed for MySQL in the cloud. All with the aim of improving online customer experience.
The enterprise is entering the business-centric era of Postmodern ERP. Or at least it is according to Gartner.
Here's why Red Hat acquired Ansible, and the important takeaways about enterprise IT's journey to the cloud, devops and the world of frictionless IT
When we no longer program with wires
What’s happening today is configuration at ever more specific levels, not merely in massive and monolithic applications but in re-composable components, says Salesforce's Peter Coffee.
General Electric's making some bold predictions for growth from its digital operations, but can it deliver the platform for the Industrial Internet?
At the Huawei Cloud Congress, the company launched what it claims is the first OpenStack-based cloud Disaster Recovery service. Martin Banks casts a quizzical eye over the claims.
Databricks survey of Spark usage provides insights into an open source platform that supports multiple languages and use platforms. This is very promising for the future of big data and streaming analytics.
Not big enough to bash Amazon, and perhaps already too big to be a specialist CSP focused on a few business sectors, Rackspace may find itself in the middle of several stools and not quite able to sit on any of them.
Rackspace turned in a profit as part of its continued re-invention. But there are bumps in the road that are slowing down its transformation.
Virgin America's used wifi as a competitive differentiator for years, but there's more to come, says CEO David Cush.
How about an open source alternative to upgrading Oracle Applications, especially when that upgrade path means moving to RAC? EnterpriseDB reckons it can oblige.
On and off back channel discussions about open sourcing SAP HANA come back into view as IBM gets with the open source theme.
Open source technology has arguably become mainstream, especially in modern databases like NoSQL and Hadoop based systems. They are unlocking huge value.