To gain an appreciation for a company’s level of digital maturity, it may be easier to know what it is not. Maintaining data centers with no cloud adoption and having mobile applications that cannot be accessed remotely would certainly qualify, according to one senior executive at Quantum Corp. who is tasked with bringing his company further ...

VMware Inc. engineers who submitted technical papers for consideration at this year’s Radio event, the company’s “Research And Development Innovation Offsite” gathering, had a better chance of getting admitted to the University of Notre Dame (19 percent) or passing the bar exam in California (27 percent) than making the cut to present their work. Only ...

With public and private clouds, hybrid models, and a need to manage data flowing from “internet of things” devices at the edge, the enterprise world is dealing with a lot of moving parts. Like rivers coming together in the geographic landscape, the streams of information are on a collision course where managing that data will ...

Acquisitions are the corporate world’s version of legalized gambling. Identify an opportunity, put money down and hope it pays off in the end. By this standard, VMware Inc. has done well at the gambling table. Noteworthy examples include the acquisition of Nicira Inc. in 2012, which propelled VMware into the software-defined networking space, and AirWatch in ...

Technology companies by nature generally prefer to keep research and development projects pretty close to the vest. Silicon Valley R&D labs usually have more layers of security than weapons of world domination in a “Mission Impossible” film, and the public rarely sees what goes on behind the curtain until a company is ready to reveal ...

Once upon a time, the world went mad over “Pokémon Go” as hordes of people wandered the countryside clutching smartphones in search of Pikachu and other digital creatures. That game was supposed to herald the dawn of the augmented reality age. Just two years later, the AR sky is still pretty dark. The Pokemon craze quickly dissolved and AR ...

If David Siegel, chief executive officer of the Pillar Project and author of “The Token Handbook,” ran the National Science Foundation, projects would be funded on a much different basis than they are today. Taking a page from what he’s learned as a businessman and corporate adviser, Siegel would be in favor of having science ...

As the leading source of financing for U.S. mortgage lenders, the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, generates and uses a significant amount of data. Yet, the government-sponsored enterprise found itself in a position several years ago with an organizational view of data as merely a byproduct of its financial business. The challenge was ...

Datrium Inc.’s introduction of its DVX 4.0 software in April was the firm’s third major release in less than a year, underscoring its continued commitment to a mantra of simplicity. The latest release provides full support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a four-node vSphere cluster, as Datrium continues to bolster its position to provide open, ...

When critical data assets were once stored on one platform, disaster recovery was a fairly straightforward process. Now that workloads and massive amounts of data are stored on-premises and in multiple cloud environments, the process has become significantly more complex. More importantly, complicated infrastructures make it more challenging to rapidly troubleshoot problems and avoid system ...