Recent announcements from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. have been clearly focused on furthering its edge and hybrid cloud strategies. Earlier this month, the company announced Edge Orchestrator, a software-as-a-service offering designed to help telecommunications firms deploy edge computing services. HPE is both an investor and customer with edge-computing hardware startup Pensando Systems Inc. And HPE’s ...

In the sports world, it’s called “working the refs,” only this time it’s not a game. Players or coaches will complain to referees about unfair treatment for an entire contest in hopes of receiving a favorable, crucial call at the end. There is a version of “working the refs” occurring today in the ongoing debate ...

According to one global annual survey, 97% of businesses backed up organizational data, yet nearly 30% suffered data loss. At first glance, the survey results don’t make any sense. The problem is that data is growing exponentially and so are the devices where it is stored. Just finding all of the places where it must be accessed ...

These are quiet days for a number of companies that are building for computing at the edge, but there is apparently a lot happening behind the scenes. After emerging from stealth mode in October, Pensando Systems Inc. has kept a relatively low profile. Its website lists only two personnel-related announcements over the last seven months. Yet, one ...

Among the executive changes made by Veeam Software Corp. in the first half of 2020 was the hire of a new chief information security officer. In an acknowledgement of a CISO’s importance to the business today, the position reports directly to Veeam’s chief executive officer. However, Veeam’s board of directors will be working closely with the ...

When Veeam Software Corp. reported its quarterly earnings in May, the backup software provider cited “major success” in market adoption of subscription offerings that included Veeam Universal License. With a reported 97% year-over-year increase in bookings, Veeam’s licensing strategy is proving to be a key tailwind for a firm, which has trademarked “It just works” as ...

For many years, Veeam Software Corp. was known for punching above its weight class in the data backup market. Now, with 375,000 customers, $1 billion in annual sales and a valuation more than $5 billion, a case could be made that it has grown right into its weight class. The most recent IDC Semi-Annual Software Tracker ...

When Pensando Systems Inc. emerged from stealth mode in October, the company unveiled its programmable processor built for edge computing along with $278 million in funding, led primarily by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. During today’s Future Proof Your Enterprise event, Pensando executives provided a glimpse into customer growth and the nature of the startup firm’s ...

If one product could power software-defined cloud, compute, storage, security and networking services, that would cover a lot of ground in the enterprise space. This is what Pensando Systems Inc. and its partner — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. — are banking on. HPE is both an investor and customer for Pensando, which is developing and ...

Technology tends to arrive in waves, and in the software-defined networking space, a third wave of change is about to break upon enterprise shores. It started with Nicira Inc., which was bought for $1.26 billion in 2012 by VMware Inc. and turned into the virtualized networking solution NSX. The second wave was represented by data ...