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 ...

As VMworld wrapped up its fourth and final day, the event left attendees plenty of time to digest the flurry of major acquisition news that preceded the conference and a series of announcements that were rolled out on Monday. The question up for debate: Did the enterprise computing industry gain a better appreciation for VMware Inc.’s ...

Technology has brought significant change, placing demands on people in a given industry who must adapt to a world where new skills and capabilities are constantly required. This has manifested itself in the telecommunications industry where the conversation has changed significantly. “When we work within this industry, it’s not just a technology conversation,” said Kevin ...

Sometimes the strategic positioning of a company can become more obvious by observing who’s not on stage during its major annual conference than who is. After a series of keynote presentations during VMworld 2019 on Monday and Tuesday, it was clear to those in attendance that the focus was on Dell EMC/VMware products more than ...

The introduction of Tanzu, VMware Inc.’s modern apps portfolio, at the VMworld conference this week heralded an important move for the company in shaping the way that enterprises will run and manage software using the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system. It’s important for VMware because, without a move toward app management, the data center might not ...

The acquisition of Carbon Black by VMware Inc., announced last week, did not come cheap. The price tag was $2.1 billion, but one of VMware’s top executives feel strongly that the company got its money’s worth in the deal. “We looked at the landscape and felt it was ripe for disruption,” said Sanjay Poonen (pictured), ...

Based on a recent string of billion-dollar exits, cloud monitoring and enterprise software firms in general have been delivering nice payouts. And investors are taking notice. In the month of August alone, cloud monitoring service SignalFx Inc. was acquired by Splunk Inc.; Dynatrace Inc., another cloud monitoring service, went public and surged nearly 50% on its ...