Men are dying in startling numbers, and growing a mustache just might help. Three major causes — prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide — account for why men are dying, on average, six years earlier than women. Forty-five men die of prostate cancer every hour, and 60 males will die from suicide in the same ...

As Cisco Systems Inc. talks with its customers, it is getting a clear picture of information-technology preferences and an overwhelming sentiment in favor of a networking environment that mixes cloud computing with on-premises operations. One Cisco executive recently noted in an interview that 90% of its customers intended to deploy a multicloud structure while keeping ...

Hackers breached the popular web forum XKCD, stealing 560,000 usernames and emails and passwords. Providence Health Plan notified 122,000 members that their personal information may have been compromised in a security breach. And Telextext Holidays, a British travel firm, discovered that over half a million customer files may have been exposed in a data attack. ...

It’s taken quite a while, but the healthcare industry is finally moving toward hybrid cloud adoption. The results of a survey involving 2,300 information-technology decision makers published earlier this year found that hybrid cloud deployment in the healthcare industry was expected to grow from a paltry 19% penetration to 37% within two years. This is ...

As the enterprise embraces hybrid cloud, it must also come to understand the impact of hybrid storage. In today’s world of enterprise computing, data is stored in many different environments — on-premises, in public clouds and private clouds. This means information technology vendors must ensure underlying storage architectures have an increasingly robust set of services close to ...

Data from Enterprise Technology Research’s most recent spending intentions survey shows that Pure Storage Inc. is on a roll in terms of strengthening its competitive position in the storage marketplace. The most recent survey results, which ETR provided to Dave Vellante, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, showed that Pure is leading the ...

With a recent McKinsey & Co. study showing that 80% of workloads are still on-premises, enterprises are keeping one foot in the cloud and the other planted in the data center for now. Kaminario Inc. has restructured its business model and made recent announcements to position itself as a storage as a service solutions provider ...

Nick McKeown, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, has co-founded and successfully sold four startup companies. They include Nicira Inc., technology acquired by VMware Inc. in 2012 and now responsible for a $2 billion annual run rate as the foundation for NSX. When McKeown steps to a lectern and discusses the ...

(This article has been updated with an extended review of Carbon Black to reflect Tom Barsi’s selection as theCUBE’s Guest of the Week.) Don’t look now, but VMware Inc. has built a significant cybersecurity practice. The August acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. for $2.1 billion represented a major step forward for the network virtualization vendor’s ...

A student could complete a full course of study for a college degree or an entire presidential administration could come and go before the cycle to award and execute one government contract is completed. That’s why a recent collaboration between Raytheon Co. and Dell EMC to deploy new software applications for the U.S. Air Force ...