Progress today announced it has acquired Chef for $220 million in cash as part of an effort to advance adoption of best DevOps and DevSecOps practices in the midmarket. Once the deal is completed next month, Chef will operate as an independent business unit led by Sundar Subramanian, who currently is a senior vice president […]
Pandemic Provides IT Teams a Chance to Shine
Few would argue that the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t dramatically changed enterprise IT. This is especially so when it comes to both the management of IT as well as the very relationship between IT staff and the rest of the business. But how many would have predicted that the relationship between IT and business leaders […]
LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward
A vendor-neutral initiative dubbed the State of the Edge was acquired this week by LF Edge, an arm of The Linux Foundation focused on defining an open source stack of software for edge computing applications. The State of the Edge project will be merged with the existing Open Glossary of Edge Computing initiative that LF […]
Three Insights from the World’s Leading IT Organizations
IT is in a state of change on a consistent basis, but never more so than now. With the increasing importance of the digital customer experience across all industries, technology is at a new inflection point in how it can fundamentally impact executive priorities. And while nobody can speak for the direction of IT as […]