In June 2017, data management solutions company Tintri Inc. went public. By mid-2018, the company was delisted from NASDAQ and filing for bankruptcy. Its future looked bleak. But hope dawned during VMworld 2018, when information storage company DataDirect Networks Inc. made an offer to purchase Tintri and saved the company from almost certain demise. A ...

Buy a ticket. Attend the event. Have fun. It seems a simple process. But today’s ticket agents are doing more than selling admissions to sports games or concerts. Thanks to new data technologies, customers are tracked from the minute they first visit a sales site through to when they leave the venue after the event. This ...

Every business would do well to follow the Scout Motto when it comes to data’s disaster backup and recovery. Preparedness is essential in a computing environment where it is “when,” not “if,” disaster occurs. But no matter how much money is thrown at data protection, bad guys and bad weather alike can strike without warning. “It ...

Traditional data recovery models are delicate and hard to test, putting the information-technology department in an uncomfortable spotlight. When critical restore is required, everything rides on the button push that may (or may not) restore data. “No customer I have ever met has said it’s amazing that DR works for them. Nobody’s ever said that,” stated ...

The words Special Olympics are linked to the global event that draws the world’s attention. But just like the regular Olympics, for every four-year event there are hundreds of regional and local competitions. And thousands of athletes train daily to break through their own limits and achieve personal goals. With disabled athletes, these victories mean ...

While naysayers predict the rise of container technologies will bring doom and gloom for virtualization companies, VMware Inc. appears to be embracing the dragon. Strong earnings, a slew of recent acquisitions and a committed partner ecosystem show how VMware is aiming to build a bridge between the data center and the cloud. “Our vision is delivering any application ...

VMware Inc. is celebrating impressive earnings and a committed customer base. But cloud has created a developer operations world where developers are taking the driver’s seat. Behind the excitement of VMworld 2019, VMware is shackled by a reputation for being infrastructure-based. And operations attendees still dominate the event. Can throwing money at the problem bring the developers ...

As cloud computing and rapid software application development sweep across the information technology landscape, developers are jostling to take advantage of them while simultaneously modernizing existing, monolithic apps. Then there’s the complexity of application management in a multicloud environment. The result, according to Paul Fazzone (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of cloud-native apps at VMware Inc.: “App development ...

The world is eagerly anticipating the widespread availability of 5G wireless technology and the internet of things innovations it heralds. But, first priority is overcoming the divide between information and operational technologies and creating an ecosystem to support edge and IoT devices. Are slow-to-adapt telcos prepared to grab opportunity and lead into the forecast $4.1-trillion edge ...

VMware Inc. is on a roll. The past week has seen a constant stream of major announcements from the virtualization and software company. As well as the usual product reveals that accompany any major tech event such as VMworld 2019, the company has managed to make two major acquisitions — Pivotal Software Inc. and Carbon Black ...