Enterprise Times

Fortude announced a new implementation accelerator at Inforum recently. Enterprise Times spoke to Bob McKee, SVP Americas at the event to talk about Fashion Retail-in-a-box and the state of Retail. McKee has a spent many years working with Retail brands and talks about the specific challenges that the industry faces. He argues that organisations need […]

Alongside Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle NetSuite ran a one-day SuiteConnect event. Enterprise Times caught up with Brian Chess, GVP Cloud Operations at Oracle NetSuite and Craig Sullivan, GVP Product Management at NetSuite. We talked about the new announcements in NetSuite 19.2 and, in particular, the move to sit on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. This means that NetSuite […]

Unit4 ERP is underpinned by an innovative microservices architecture. Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research described by saying: “Unit4 has one of the most innovative ERP platforms in the market”. Enterprise Times spoke to Claus Jepsen, Deputy CTO at Unit4 to discuss the architecture and why it is so different and […]

At Oracle OpenWorld, Enterprise Times talked with John Bolger and Nic Woods from Version 1. Version 1 is an Ireland-based IT services and solution company with a lot of experience in ERP systems. ERP is a sector that is still seemingly divided on cloud. Some companies, such as Oracle NetSuite and Sage Intacct describe themselves […]

At Oracle OpenWorld, Enterprise Times talked with Jenny Griffiths MBE, Founder and CEO of Snap Tech. Snap Tech is a visual search engine that allows users to take an image of something they want and find it on the Internet. Amusingly, Griffiths describes it as finding dresses and guns. After all, who doesn’t want to […]

At DevOps World, Denim Group announced that the latest version of their Jenkins Plugin would work with their ThreadFix platform. Enterprise Times sat down with Dan Cornell, Founder and CTO of the Denim Group to ask what this mean. 15 years ago Cornell moved from being a developer to being a security professional. This change […]

At Sumo Logic’s Illuminate 2019 conference, Ben Newton, Director of Product Marketing, and Frank Reno, Technical Product Manager, talked with Enterprise Times about the challenge of security and containers. It’s an issue that is beginning to concern security teams. Containers are being adopted quickly by a lot of cloud-native organisations. They see the benefits of […]

As Sumo Logic kicked off its Illuminate 2019 conference in San Francisco, Enterprise Times talked with Bruno Kurtic, Founding VP of Product and Strategy, Sumo Logic. Sumo uses the phrase Continuous Intelligence and its latest report showed an increase in DevSecOps. We asked what the term really meant and how would it improve security. Kurtic […]

Jonathan Ellis is the CTO and Founder of DataStax. At ApacheCon 2019 in Las Vegas, he gave a keynote that will make many in the industry uncomfortable. The focus of that keynote was the state of open source licensing. Ellis believes that there is a problem, if not what some would call a looming crisis […]

Patrick McFadin is the VP Developer Relations at DataStax. Enterprise Times caught up with him at ApacheCon to talk about all things Cassandra. McFadin and his team sit between developers and the internal DataStax engineering team. It gives him a grown-up view on how the product is being adopted and the challenges customers face. It’s […]

At DevOps World, Enterprise Time caught up with Moritz Plassnig, VP Cloud, Cloudbees. Plassnig falls into the category of an AcuiHire. He ended up at Cloudbees when it acquired CodeShip, the open source project that Plassnig was instrumental in setting up. Being VP of Cloud doesn’t seem to be a job that comes with much […]

The amount of new data generated each data continues to rise. To cope with that, organisations have invested in cloud computing, analytics and AI. But is this really giving them the results that they want? Enterprise Times sat down with Barath Gowda, VP Product Marketing, Databricks to ask what is the real challenge organisations face? […]

Black Hat is always chaos. So many people to see, so many new products but sometimes, you get a chance to sit down and talk about issues that are affecting companies now. Enterprise Times was lucky enough to catch up with Sameer Dixit, Vice President, Security Consulting at Spirent Communications and Aleksander Gorkowienko, Managing Consultant […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Neil Sholay, Vice President Digital Innovation at Oracle, to talk about Oracle Next. Oracle Next is a co-innovation program that assists companies start their digital journey though a design methodology. It is either delivered through an engagement with Sholay’s team or using the materials on the methodology that Oracle provides […]

NTT is in the middle of a massive restructure. It has formed a new business unit – NTT Limited – into which it has placed NTT Security, NTT Communications and Dimension Data. This includes all of the subsidiaries of these three companies, it has meant bringing together 31 different companies. This level of merger and integration […]

Enterprise Times sat down with John Abel, VP Cloud and Innovation for UK, Ireland and Israel at Oracle on the eve of the Cowes leg of SailGP. He talks about how SailGP is different from many other sports. Technology is shared between all the teams on an equal footing. Data collection and analytics is powered […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Kevin Roberts, Product Evangelist at Kimble Applications. Roberts joined Kimble recently having spent several years at a competitor. The discussion first covers whether companies should buy or build software, especially if they are using the Salesforce platform. He argues that the buying from a vendor approach has many advantages. It enables […]

As Jenkins turns 15, Enterprise Times caught up with Sacha Labourey, CEO, Cloudbees at Jenkins World / DevOps World to talk about the companies latest announcements and spreading DevOps outside of IT. Cloudbees manages Jenkins and has built it into one of the largest open source DevOps products available. It has also been on the […]

Jaime Blasco is the AVP Product Development at Alien Labs, part of AT&T Cybersecurity. At Black Hat 2019, Jaime sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about threat intelligence. It’s a subject that is high on a lot of organisations agenda. The problem, is that many organisations don’t know what to do with it. They […]

Every day seems to bring more cybersecurity and AI start-ups. At Black Hat 2019, there were lots of companies claiming how their AI could solve the cybersecurity problem once and for all. Charting a route through the froth and picking a winner as an early stage investor is hard. To get an understanding of how […]

The threat of stable and accessible quantum computing has energised the world of encryption. There is a scramble to find an alternative way of securing data that means it isn’t susceptible to the vast processing power quantum computers offer. To solve this problem, NIST has been looking for new and more secure protocols but is […]

Look around and it seems every day at least one new cybersecurity company is created. Some grow, some crash and burn but they almost all get access to investment funding. In fact there is so much money sloshing around cybersecurity, it’s hard to see how you can’t get funded. To understand the criteria used to […]

At Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas, Enterprise Times talked with Sergio Caltagirone, Vice President, Threat Intelligence at Dragos and John Yeoh, Vice President of Research at the Cloud Security Alliance. With the skills shortage hurting many small to medium businesses (SMB), cloud is being seen, by some sectors, as a panacea to the problem. […]

It’s hard getting hold of talented individuals in cyber security unless you have limitless funds. Even then, you don’t always get what you pay for. To counter this, there is a slow, but growing realisation, that businesses need to do more and stop chasing the same small pool of people. How does a CISO set […]

Earlier this year, Enterprise Times talked with Derek Manky, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet – Office of CISO. The subject under discussion was the effectiveness of AI in cyber security. At ET we get emails weekly about new companies using AI to solve the cyber security challenge. We are, unsurprisingly, sceptical about […]