The dramatic size increase of stored datasets, coupled with enterprise demand for faster computing, has driven significant innovation in the data storage industry. The traditional solution of high-performance flash storage systems have historically been too expensive to deploy at large scale, but data reduction technologies are driving flash technology forward in the information technology sector.  “There’s a ...

Often times at large conferences, the keynote presentations and booths offer high-level strategy and marketing material but not much substance for the actual engineers and developers implementing the technology itself. vBrownBag, an educational podcast for the information technology sector, has been addressing this void by setting up more technically focused sessions at these conferences, as well ...

The edge of network computing has become a new point of focus thanks to the rise of connected devices. As businesses digitize services through mobile applications and wireless sensors, new challenges force companies to rebuild computing infrastructure and centralizing cloud management. Satyam Vaghani (pictured), vice president of technology at Nutanix Inc., shared his view on ...

As internally generated data becomes increasingly abundant, companies look at ways to improve internal organizational structure and operations. Jennifer Tejada (pictured), chief executive officer of PagerDuty Inc., a digital operations management platform for businesses, explained how her young company is able to leverage data inputs from their customer base of roughly 10,000 companies to generate valuable insights ...

As companies strive to squeeze out every last bit of productivity, they often look to outside help for management or organizational consulting. That’s where the DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, or DORA, group comes in, publishing an annual report on the effectiveness of software development organizations. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nicole Forsgren (pictured) explained the ...

The role of the chief information officer has become increasingly nebulous as more departments within a company turn to information technology to run better and grow faster. The flow of data between these organizations not only needs to be efficient, but secure and seamless. Symantec Corp. Chief Information Officer Sheila Jordan (pictured) is in a unique position ...

Fresh off of a recent round of venture funding, PagerDuty Inc. sets its sights on hypergrowth as a platform-based company around digital operations. Chief Financial Officer Steven Gatoff (pictured), explained what attracted him to PagerDuty, tying the team’s journey to his previous experience at Rapid7 LLC, moving from a product to a platform-based company in growth stages. ...

The milestone partnership between VMware Inc.’s cloud platform and Amazon Web Services Inc. indicates a turning point in the shift from traditional data center thinking, virtual or otherwise, toward cloud-native computing. While this offering represents a new paradigm, there are some challenges in migrating virtual environments to the cloud to be resolved before the industry sees a ...

The multitude of new channels and mediums for marketing has expanded the opportunities for companies to reach customers, but these channels are quickly becoming saturated. Businesses must now compete for attention of consumers constantly being bombarded with marketing messages to the point of becoming numb to them. Meaningful engagement with users is far more important ...

Insights from big data have been fundamentally changing the role of marketing organizations and how they are operated. At a high level, marketing is becoming a cross-functional role within company organizations as marketers increasingly look to big data insights and automated technology, according to Karen Steele (pictured), vice president of corporate marketing at Marketo Inc. “There’s ...