Prior to becoming chief executive officer for Puppet Inc. and now Commvault Systems Inc., Sanjay Mirchandani held senior leadership positions with Microsoft Corp., EMC and VMware Inc. He knows the value of data for the enterprise, and he’s bringing that expertise straight to his new role with the data protection provider. “If I was sitting with ...

After buying scale-out storage provider Hedvig for $225 million in September, Commvault Systems Inc. has followed up with the announcement this week that it would position the newly acquired technology to unify multicloud storage and data management. With new software-defined storage capabilities encompassing container interfaces and multi-tenant data centers, integration with the rest of Commvault’s ...

Acronis International GmbH has a fairly simple mission: Protect all data in any environment. Yet, cyber environments are highly complex, and the amount of data to be protected can be massive, which makes for a challenging task. Data backup and recovery systems offer a prime example. They are designed to protect valuable information. But what ...

The pace at Commvault Systems Inc. is noticeably picking up following the hire of a new chief executive officer in February. Over the past eight months, Commvault brought former Puppet Inc. CEO Sanjay Mirchandani on board, acquired software-defined storage vendor Hedvig Inc. for $225 million, and launched a new cloud-native data protection venture called Metallic ...

As the chief information officer at a major law firm, Jason Thomas (pictured) is besieged by vendors and constantly under pressure to plan for future needs while making bets on technology that will handle demand and remain secure. It’s a balancing act to say the least, which is why Thomas devotes the time necessary to ...

Ten years ago, most corporate networks were fortified castles with alligators in the moat and a drawbridge to be raised at any hint of an attack. That notion of cybersecurity protection changed as more corporate users steered an increasing amount of network traffic to the internet. With the introduction of cloud and mobile devices to ...

The field of robotic process automation is hot, if recent data compiled by Enterprise Technology Research is any indication. The major firms that provide RPA, which involves the use of software robots to automate repetitive mundane tasks, are showing signs of major growth, based on user panel responses from more than 1,000 information-technology practitioners summarized by ETR. ...

Most technology executives would be quite satisfied to build a business in 10 years with more than 5,000 employees, 14,000 customers, at least $1 billion in annual revenue, and become an established, publicly traded company. Most executives aren’t Dheeraj Pandey. As the chairman and chief executive officer of Nutanix Inc., Pandey (pictured) has guided his firm ...

Automation took center stage at the Nutanix Inc. .NEXT gathering in Europe this week with the news that the company’s hyperconverged infrastructure platform would be integrated with ServiceNow’s IT Operations Management solution to automate private cloud workflows. Nutanix also released the results of a survey, which revealed that virtually all information technology decision-makers who responded ...

Until 1988, any woman who wanted a business loan in the U.S. needed a male relative to co-sign for her. Thirty-one years later, women are founding startup companies on their own, but good luck getting investment money to do it. “We’re still getting 2%, maybe 3% of venture capital funding, so something is amiss,” Amy Sorrells (pictured, ...