The road to the hybrid cloud is anything but straight for many enterprise firms. Twists, turns and forks in the road can range from security and disaster recovery to automated services and workload management. The hybrid cloud evolution has also translated into a solid business opportunity for firms such as GreenPages Technology Solutions, a systems ...

Competition in the cloud data warehouse space is heating up, and one of the most significant companies to emerge in the space is Snowflake Inc. That’s one of several conclusions from spending data recently provided to SiliconANGLE by Enterprise Technology Research Inc. ETR’s survey of information-technology professionals found that Snowflake’s data warehouse approach, which separates ...

As enterprises adopt hybrid computing cloud models, which include public and private clouds, flexible software licensing becomes even more important. This means some companies that were previously solely in the hardware space must either pivot quickly or miss out on a major market opportunity. This was the challenge that confronted Nutanix Inc. as it has transitioned ...

Sometimes speed wins. Other times, it kills. Speed to market, first-mover advantage, rapid deployment and quantum moves forward are generally considered to be positive attributes in the tech world. Yet is it also possible that enterprise tech, which has suddenly become a pretty hot sector, currently is enjoying too much of a good thing? Speed ...

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 ...