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New CISO expected to play central role in Veeam’s data protection business
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 ...
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Veeam follows a 14-year enterprise data-protection strategy: ‘It just works’
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 ...
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Protect, manage and transform are the key themes for Veeam this year
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 ...
Partnership with HPE fuels customer interest in startup Pensando
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 ...
HPE and Pensando collaborate on new paradigm for distributed services
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 ...
Pensando surfs the edge with its entry into a third wave of software-defined networking
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 ...
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Jen Felch embraces role as Dell’s CIO and CDO during time of significant change
2020 has been a year of change and adjustment in ways that few could have imagined. The transformed world has also meant dealing with a new reality for chief information officers in most organizations as well. “The role of the CIO just gets more important as we enable new ways of working,” said Jen Felch ...
From commodity to technology: Pure extends storage vision in evolving enterprise data market
Corn, wheat, barley, soybeans, oats … and data. They all require storage like any other commodity, yet Pure Storage Inc. has taken a different point of view when it comes to handling data. Several years ago, the enterprise computing world appeared headed down a path where storage would be commoditized itself, viewed as nothing more ...
Get ready for state-backed digital cash, programmable 5G and synthetic media
The world feels like it has been irrevocably changed in the past few months, but that may be just the warmup act. Before long, new disruptions in key areas such as finance, media and global communications could soon take center stage. Disruption was very much on the minds of speakers this week at EmTech Next, ...
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Render’s simplified deployment solutions for developers gain traction in US and Europe
He was the eighth employee hired at payments platform Stripe Inc. in 2011 and watched as the business grew to earn a $20 billion valuation in less than a decade. But for Anurag Goel, founder and chief executive officer of Render Services Inc., one thing that didn’t change was the repetitive nature of his work as a ...









