The story of Pure Storage Inc. is not merely one of flash memory, but also a story of significant progress in the storage industry. The company celebrated its first decade of existence this month and has already broken new ground by being the first all-flash array business to achieve escape velocity. Pure orchestrated its success through ...

NWN Corp. has a new brand identity. The provider of managed information-technology solutions for over two decades announced on Tuesday the launch of a new “service as a solution” portfolio designed to offer integrated, cloud-scale capabilities for its customers. Under a new tagline of “Innovation Delivered,” NWN’s solution offerings include unified communications, security, contact center, device ...

When it comes to storage capabilities, what does the hybrid cloud mean to an enterprise? For Pure Storage Inc., the answer is being able to send data inexpensively to the public cloud, having the ability to restore information either on-premises or in the cloud, and backing up data volumes across a multitude of platforms. “What ...

This week’s Pure//Accelerate conference in Austin, Texas, was an opportunity for Pure Storage Inc. to unveil its hybrid cloud chops this week, and the company did not disappoint. Pure fleshed out its enterprise strategy by announcing the release of Cloud Block Store for Amazon Web Services Inc. and CloudSnap for Microsoft Azure. The firm also unveiled Pure as ...

Seventy-four years after the fictionalized film featuring the actor Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Smith really did go to Washington. In 2013, Microsoft Corp. president Brad Smith (pictured) found himself sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House conversing with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, members of the Cabinet and a number of technology leaders. The ...

One hundred Webster dictionaries would fill a gigabyte of data and 100,000 would fill a terabyte. Samsung SmartThings, the electronics giant’s smart home platform, generates 150 terabytes of “interesting” data every day, according to SmartThings’ chief technology officer. And that’s a significant increase from the previous year, which offers a singular hint at where the data ...

Moore’s Law, the decades-old observation that the number of transistors in a microchip will double every two years, may be finally slowing down according to a number of industry leaders. Yet, the principle of exponential growth is still alive and well when it comes to enterprise data. In a time when the explosion of data ...

Data protection can be a great idea in concept, until it doesn’t work. When crippling ransomware attacks impacted 23 cities in Texas near the end of this summer, public libraries checked out books by writing the names of borrowers on sheets of paper and police issued manually generated tickets by hand. And the towns in ...

Four billion of anything is a lot to imagine. When it involves 4 billion Kubernetes instances, each containing multiple data points on spin-up, operation, and spin-down, the scale becomes truly hard to imagine. That’s how many Kubernetes instances Google LLC launches every week just for its own use. “If you think of Google launching 4 ...

On Wednesday, Sumo Logic Inc. made a series of announcements designed to showcase what it calls the “Intelligence Economy.” The news included a continuous intelligence solution for Kubernetes, new benchmarking capabilities for AWS GuardDuty, expanded multicloud support for Google Cloud, and the introduction of a credit-based licensing model for customers. The announcements were in keeping ...