Nutanix Inc. released its earnings on Tuesday, reporting revenue of $313 million for the quarter, an increase year-over-year. The financial progress of the nine-year-old hyperconverged infrastructure company offered some validation that its portfolio was reaching a wider market in the enterprise world. “The information technology operation can now say ‘yes’ to the business and focus ...

Wednesday’s announcement by Amazon Web Services Inc. that it would introduce an on-premises data center model that mirrors its own cloud operation will likely cause major heartburn for hybrid competitors, and could lead to a major shift in strategy by companies in the same space. “What Amazon is doing with Outposts is they’re putting the ...

As a provider of data protection solutions for the enterprise, Druva Inc. has sought to capitalize on its natively architected solutions for the public cloud. And as a longtime partner with Amazon Web Services Inc., Druva has bought wholeheartedly into a model where its customers can take immediate advantage of new cloud features as quickly ...

One of the many announcements made by Amazon Web Services Inc. at the kickoff of re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas on Monday evening was a network service that automates traffic routing through edge locations. The AWS Global Accelerator will route customers’ network traffic across multiple cloud regions. “What you’re seeing is Amazon recognizing that internet ...

Enterprise customers vote with their feet, and both Cisco Systems Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are following footsteps into the hybrid world. This month’s announcement that Cisco would introduce a new hybrid deployment option for joint customers with AWS signified the continued importance that Kubernetes’ container orchestration technology has played in the information technology infrastructure. ...

The Kubernetes container orchestration tool has redefined how software today is designed and deployed in enterprise computing — changing not only the software world, but the very notion of networking. Prior to the introduction of Kubernetes, containers were already gaining in popularity as a method to more easily deploy software applications. Yet as microservices became ...

In the increasingly crowded space for “as a service” platforms, differentiation can be a challenge. There’s software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, monitoring as a service, and even anything as a service. It’s a big-aaS list. Amid the acronym jungle is integration platform as a service, or iPaaS, and a ...

With less than two months left, 2018 is poised to go down in tech history as the coming of age for open-source software. Need evidence? Over the past 10 months, notable open-source enterprises MuleSoft Inc., Magento Inc., GitHub Inc. and Red Hat Inc. have been purchased for a combined $50 billion. Yet before jumping on the ...

The time series data market used to be a province for weather statistics and stock price averages. But as the wave of data generated from “internet of things” devices continues to escalate, one company is betting that the market for time series technology will become much more significant in a wide range of uses beyond ...

Before it reached a $125 billion valuation, before it grew to 345 million users, before its stock hit $500 per share, Yahoo Inc. was nothing more than a cramped, donated space strewn with empty pizza boxes and soda cans, occupied by students David Filo and Jerry Yang on the campus of Stanford University. “It was a ...