Enterprise Times

One of the big challenges for blockchain developers is the lack of tools to help them get started. Enter a team of developers from IBM. They took part in a hackathon sponsored by Cloud Foundry and the result was the Blockhead Service Broker. When you look closely at it and talk to the development team […]

UK security company Becrypt has launched the latest version of its Paradox software, Paradox Edge. It is a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platform delivered as a managed service. Enterprise Times spoke to Dr Bernard Parsons, Co-Founder and CEO of Becrypt in London about the announcement. Becrypt has moved away from the traditional security sphere […]

Employing and retaining the right people has never been harder. It is not just the battle to find the right people but making sure that those people fit the organisation. Even when they do seem to fit, can you be sure they are going to deliver on the role you have for them. Enter Dr […]

Shortly before his move from OutSystems to VMware earlier this year, Enterprise Times talked to Dan Juengst about Low Code environments. We asked Juengst what low code was all about. He said it is: “A cloud application environment that allows you to build, run and scale them in a scalable elastic environment. The key is the […]

Mike Wolf leads the modern delivery practice at KPMG. He recently sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about the wider benefits of DevOps to the business. Wolf says that: “Modern delivery is a holistic view that combines Agile, DevOps with Product Management, Lean Financing and design thinking.” The idea is that bring them all […]

Running a successful ecosystem is essential for software companies. As the company grows, so do the number of partners who want to get involved with them. Earlier this year, Enterprise Times attended the Atlassian Summit in Europe. While there, we got a chance to talk about the challenges around ecosystem management with Bryant Lee Global […]

At Infor’s Inforum conference in Washington, DC, Infor launched its Coleman Digital Assistant. It is the first of the Coleman AI family products that the company is planning. Enterprise Times sat down with Massimo Capoccia, SVP Infor OS, Technology, Infor to talk about Coleman and other technologies that Infor is planning to bring to market. Unlike […]

Enterprise Times had the opportunity to talk to Fionn O’Keeffe, CFO of PeopleStreme. As a SaaS vendor O’Keeffe has the unique viewpoint of looking at FinancialForce as a supplier and also a fellow software vendor. PeopleStreme is an HCM vendor that was recently acquired by the leading Australian Payroll vendor Ascender. O’Keeffe talks about the […]

On a recent visit to London, Mike McKee, CEO of insider threat management company ObserveIT, dropped in to talk to Enterprise Times. We took the opportunity to ask McKee what the term really means. Who is that insider? A rogue employee? A partner? The cleaner? McKee said it encompasses any employee including contractors. A lot […]

Tim Pickard, CMO, Egress Software sat down with Enterprise Times recently to talk about the challenges of securing unstructured data. Pickard is referring to all that data that sits on end user devices and that they share across email and other services. Protecting data from misuse has been a recurring theme for decades. The problem is […]

At the recent Atlassian Summit Europe, Enterprise Times talked to Roger Barnes, Group Product Manager, DevOps and ITSM solution at Atlassian. One of the excuses we often hear from large enterprises as to why they don’t use DevOps is that they have a complex environment. They often cite ITSM, certification to comply with ISO standards […]

David Stephans, Chief Revenue Office Rootstock talks about the trends in manufacturing today.  He splits them into two categories: Fundamental or strategic trends Value driven trends He reveals that he is seeing companies adopt business process automation, Cloud based technology and IoT. One example he draws out are the advantages of the real time connection […]

MuleSoft this week announced a new release of its Anypoint platform. Enterprise Times caught up with Mark Dao, Chief Product Officer of MuleSoft, a Salesforce Company at Dreamforce this week. I spoke to him about the application network graph, comparing it to data networks. We covered some of the new features in the release. More […]

On day one of  DevOps World and Jenkins World, the Contributor Summit took place. Enterprise Times was lucky enough to catch up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, CTO, CloudBees and creator of Jenkins. Kawaguchi was much in demand during the summit as Jenkins prepared for a major set up updates to its products. Kawaguchi said that this […]

The Cyber Security Challenge Face2Face competitions are always interesting to attend. They give attendees a chance to showcase their capabilities and sponsors a chance to spot potential employees. At a recent F2F, Enterprise Times caught up with Colin Lobely, CEO and Bryony Chinnery, Communications Director from the Cyber Security Challenge. There has been a lot […]

At the DevOps World and Jenkins World conference, Enterprise Times caught up with Sacha Labourey, CEO, CloudBees. As Jenkins has grown, CloudBees has found itself supporting both on-premises and cloud-based solutions. This is never easy. It makes it hard to have a generic code base and architecture. Labourey admits this was a challenge for Jenkins. […]

At the Atlassian Summit in Barcelona, Jens Schumacher talked with Enterprise Times about the new announcements that the company had made. The big announcement at the show was the acquisition of OpsGenie. This gives Atlassian an opportunity to expand the reach of its incident response tooling. Importantly, this is about more than just helping the […]

At the Atlassian Summit in Barcelona, Enterprise Times caught up with Aubrey Blanche to find out how the company’s diversity programme had progressed in the last year. Blanche is now the Global Head of Diversity and Belonging at Atlassian. It’s a great title. Blanche says that this is about the entire talent lifecycle from hiring […]

The recent Cyber Security Challenge Face to Face (F2F) competition was set by the National Crime Agency. The goal was to introduce contestants to a part of cybersecurity that is often overlooked; the need to gather data to an evidential standard. This means applying forensic approaches to how data is retrieved, examined and stored. Craig Jones […]

The risk of a business threatening cyber-attack is ever present today. Ransomware locks up data making it hard for businesses to operate. The impact is so bad that an increasing number of companies are paying to getting their data back. At the same time, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) can sit inside a system for months […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Carol Tyler, Global Senior Practice Director – Organizational Change Management, Infor at a Infor SunSystems customer day. The conversation was wide ranging and very interesting. We spoke about change management, organizational change and digital transformation. Tyler is a very experienced change leader and uses the phrase “from graduates to grandmas” when ask...

At an NTT Security event in Germany, Kai Grunwitz and Matthias Straub talked with Enterprise Times about the NTT Security Risk:Value 2018 report. Kai Grunwitz is the Senior Vice President, EMEA, NTT Security. Matthias Straub is Director for Consulting in Germany and Austria, NTT Security. They have both been involved in cyber security for many […]

Enterprise Times recently met with Christian Koch, Senior Manager GRC & IoT/OT at NTT Security (Germany) GmbH to talk about IoT security. It is a subject in the news at the moment, especially with the European Union focusing on who is responsible for securing devices. During the conversation, Koch talked about the challenges of attributing […]

Franck Braunstedter is the Senior Manager Cyber Defense and Cloud Security at NTT Security. He recently sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about the cloud and its security challenges. Companies are accelerating their move to the cloud but for many, the stumbling block is security. This is not about “is the cloud secure?” but […]

At a recent NTT Security event in Frankfurt, Enterprise Times sat down with Rene Bader to talk about enterprise challenges when moving to the cloud. One of the first challenges that Bader and his team face is refocusing the client. The key is to stop them thinking infrastructure and to focus on the application. Once […]