Enterprise Times

At Apttus Accelerate in San Francisco, Enterprise Times spoke to Kamal Ahluwalia, Chief Revenue Officer at Apttus. Ahluwalia spoke about how Apttus has evolved. It no longer simply delivers applications but aims to deliver outcomes. He explains a three point strategy of how the Sales teams are trained to deliver solution selling into clients. That […]

At the OpenStack Summit in Boston delegates have been getting updated on Managed Private Cloud as a Service (PCaaS). The OpenStack Foundation believes that this is the next big move that we will see in cloud as it delivers a solution for companies who want cloud, don’t want public cloud, but also don’t want to […]

At the OpenStack Summit in Boston, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation talked about the need to simplify OpenStack. This became the main theme of the conference for many people. Enterprise Times was fortunate enough to get some time with Bryce to talk about what this really means and OpenStack’s relationship with the […]

IT security teams are struggling to know where to look when it comes to security. They’ve pinned down, or believe they’ve pinned down the perimeter of the enterprise. The problem is that there has been no effective perimeter for well over a decade. Mobile users, cloud-services, social media presence and websites all show that the […]

Organisations are keen to show off their equality programmes at the moment. But how good are those programmes and how easy is it to create something that is really meeting expectations? It’s a difficult question to get an answer to. Most organisations like to throw numbers around without actually doing any real research into what […]

Like many new technologies companies, Atlassian has its own programme for giving back to the community. At the Atlassian Summit Europe in Barcelona, Enterprise Times caught up with Pledge 1% evangelist, Jessica Hyman. In this podcast, Hyman explains why Pledge 1% is important, what it means and how Atlassian is using it to forge a […]

At IBM InterConnect, Ramesh Gopinath sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about blockchain and what IBM was doing with it. In just over a year IBM has managed to win around 400 different client engagements around blockchain. According to Gopinath, the big shift is the move from proof of concept (PoC) or blockchain tourism […]

  Earlier this year Enterprise Times had the opportunity to visit the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Part of the Ministry of Defence, its main focus is on the impact of technology on the UK military. As part of the UK National Cyber Security Strategy, the Defence Cyber School has been established. Paul Bleackley, […]

Enterprise Times recently had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Tabron, Senior Marketing Manager, SUSE. He is responsible for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and talked to us about the range of platforms and architectures on which it now runs. He surprised us at the beginning by saying that there is a version for […]

After the acquisition of NetSuite by Oracle there were questions about whether Evan Goldberg, founder and CTO would leave NetSuite. As time has past this now seems extremely unlikely. Enterprise Times talked to Goldberg after he had delivered his technical keynote on stage at SuiteWorld 17. Hosting the event it was clear that the access […]

SecureKey is an identity and authentication provider. Unlike many companies in this space it is focused on consumers rather than enterprise users. At IBM InterConnect earlier this year, Wolfond announced SecureKey’s latest blockchain-based solution. It is designed to allow consumers to share sensitive information in such a way that the information stays protected. This is […]

At IBM InterConnect last month, Steve Dickens, Global Offering Manager for IBM Mainframes dropped in for a chat. The last three years have seen IBM reinvent the mainframe especially with the z Systems z12 and z13. IBM has also introduced the LinuxONE group of mainframes for customers who only want to run Linux. It is […]

Danny Rowark, Regional Director EMEA West, SUSE talked to Enterprise Times recently about the future for the rapidly expanding company. Micro Focus has invested heavily in SUSE not just in the acquisition but also in the deal with HPE. That second deal has projected SUSE into a significant position in the OpenStack and Cloud Foundry […]

Nate Lindstrom of NS1 recently sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about DNS and intelligent traffic routing. The conversation took place at NS1’s office in San Francisco and covered the role of DNS, security and why companies need to take DNS more seriously. Improving performance as we move to the cloud is critical. Users […]

At IBM InterConnect, Brad Schick, CTO, Skytap sat down with Enterprise Times  and talked about cloud on AIX. It has been two years since IBM launched the POWER8 processor and made x86 its primary target. In all the attention that the Power Systems team has had, AIX has almost become the forgotten operating system. The sales […]

Denis Kennelly, Chief Product Officer, IBM Security recently sat down with Enterprise Times to update us on what was happening with IBM Watson for Cyber Security. The product recently moved from research to general availability and we were interested in what it was doing and what problems it was addressing., One area where there is […]

Tony Tam, Vice President of Products, Swagger met up with Enterprise Times recently to talk about APIs and Swagger. Tam describes Swagger as an Integrated Developer Language (IDL) for APIs. There is a lot talked about how the future of IT and particularly software development is all about APIs. One thing that many vendors are […]

Enterprise Times recently caught up with Tim Rawlins, Senior Advisor and Director, NCC Group. We sat and talked about the state of cyber security, the problems of staff retention and threat intelligence. Rawlins accepts that there is a major problem across the industry when it comes to attracting and retaining staff. Interestingly, rather than over […]

Enterprise TImes caught up with Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas. In our conversation Kearns explained what the Cloud Foundry Foundation was saying: “We protect all of the IP of Cloud Foundry and ensure it has a sustainable ecosystem.” The fact that there are so many users of […]

During the recent Sage Summit at Excel, London I spoke to Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, Chief Technology Officer, Sage.  He is responsible for Sage’s technology strategy and software architecture. Vogelberg joined Sage when it acquired the German KHK Software group in 1997. Having been R&D Director and a partner of that business Vogelberg went on to act as R&D Director […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Rob Norris, VP Head of Enterprise & Cyber Security EMEIA at Fujitsu recently to talk about cybersecurity. Norris has been involved with cybersecurity for a long time. His career spans time with Fujitsu and ESET Global. A few years ago Norris got permission to setup a UK cybersecurity resource as […]

On a recent visit to London Jeff Reser, Global Product and Solutions Marketing Manager, SUSE sat down with Enterprise Times. We talked about SUSE’s relationship with IBM and how that will influence products in the future. Reser talked about the upcoming release of SUSE OpenStack for z Systems. With IBM Interconnect next week in Las […]

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom hosted a day on Neuro-Diversity. The focus of the day was around how to get some people with autism into cyber security. Certain types of autism are particularly suited to some types of cybersecurity roles. The day provided them with different challenges and opportunities to test themselves. It also […]

Fujitsu is beginning to emerge as a major player in the cybersecurity market. Having pooled all of its cybersecurity teams into a single business unit it is already a $1 billion business. It has serious ambitions to grow beyond that. Enterprise Times went North to visit the hub of Fujitsu’s European security empire and met […]

A few weeks ago serial entrepreneur and self-made billionaire Bhavin Turakhia visited London. In partnership with his brother he has launched 11 companies in the last 19 years. In August 2016 the brothers sold Media/Net for $900 million. Turakhia was in London to talk about the UK launch of his latest product, real-time messaging and collaboration […]