While many enterprise organizations have enthusiastically embraced the migration of databases from on-premises data centers to the cloud, there are still trade-offs. One of these has been the loss of security monitoring tools, and it is a situation that McAfee LLC is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. to fix. “Whenever you start migrating databases ...

In high-pressured developer operations environments, corporate developers are like magicians performing a multiple-plate spinning trick. As they spin up containers, they demand full visibility into operations at all times and need to know quickly when a “plate” starts to wobble. This is why Wavefront, a real-time monitoring and streaming analytics platform acquired last year by ...

In today’s complicated landscape for information technology, having a cross-platform solution that can perform critical data protection and recovery functions for enterprise data centers and hybrid clouds is a valuable tool. Veritas Technologies LLC’s NetBackup solution provides that support for the enterprise, and the product recently played an important role in an Amazon Web Services Inc. ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s servers and systems just got smarter. The company just announced that its cloud-based artificial intelligence management tool — InfoSight — would add machine learning capabilities that include cross-stack recommendations for Nimble Storage, an AI-driven resource planner to optimize workload placement and performance insights for HPE 3PAR’s systems and software for data storage. “This isn’t AI ...

Amazon.com Inc. has already commoditized e-commerce and the cloud. Why not satellite data as well? That’s the premise behind Amazon Web Services Inc.’s decision in March to launch a new cloud service in the last week of November that leverages its global network to improve the ability of satellite operators to bring data to Earth. AWS ...

The world is awash in a sea of data, and it’s time for new technology to step up to the challenge and deal with it. That’s the fundamental proposition behind Fungible Inc., a startup company led by Pradeep Sindhu (pictured), who founded Juniper Networks Inc. in 1996. Sindhu has made a career out of dealing ...

In January, Amazon.com Inc. had a total of 562 million products for sale on its e-commerce website. After four days of wall-to-wall new products and services announcements this week at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, enterprise cloud watchers could be forgiven if they believed that Amazon Web Services Inc. now offered a similar number. Industry ...

Since Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off its hit parade of new products on Monday during the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with the news that it would debut a new cloud chip of its own design called Graviton, speculation has risen that the company’s move could represent a threat to chip giant Intel Corp. ...

Behind the earnings posted by Nutanix Inc. on Tuesday was a clear indication that its transition from a traditional software licensing model to one more focused on subscription business was gaining traction. Subscription revenue now accounts for more than a third of Nutanix’s sales and climbed above 100 percent year-over-year in the same period. Analysts ...

People who scoff at the importance of core information technology infrastructure just don’t get it. That’s the impression left with Nutanix Inc. founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dheeraj Pandey. And Pandey (pictured) has seen plenty of companies struggle with that concept, including many of Nutanix’s competitors that are increasingly finding themselves in a pitched battle ...