About halfway through a presentation at Blockchain Week in New York City this month, Jimmy Song had heard enough. The venture partner of Blockchain Capital LLC’s funds had watched and listened as one entrepreneur labored through a slide deck to describe a new company based on blockchain technology. And Song still had no idea what the product ...

Roll back the calendar four years ago, and OpenStack was mostly associated with cloud software. Yet, the range of use cases where OpenStack’s technology is currently being applied, from network function virtualization in the telecommunications world to supporting over 200,000 computer processing cores at Wal-Mart Inc., offers hints that the picture is changing. “You’re beginning ...

Delivering data from intelligent devices at the edge of computing networks involves a delicate dance between gateways that aggregate information and the infrastructure to bring data and enterprise sources together. The ballet is getting more complicated as computing applications and data services get pushed farther from centralized processor nodes to the outer edges of a ...

A visit to the Pure Accelerate gathering in San Francisco this past week was a chance to walk amid the ghosts of history. Held at the century-old Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the conference offered attendees an experience of listening to keynotes from the same stage where the Democratic National Convention was held in 1920, Martin ...

The OpenStack Foundation’s gathering this week was characterized by much talk of collaboration and little major news, according to one technology reporter in attendance. The journalist suggested that maturity of the technology may be one contributing factor. “With all respect to the OpenStack Foundation and its member projects, there’s not as much excitement,” said Sean Michael ...

When Pure Storage Inc. announced over two years ago to support 3D NAND-designed flash storage in its products, the news did not draw a tremendous amount of attention. Yet the company’s decision is beginning to look like it could play a major role in fueling future growth as workload management becomes more critical in enterprise data ...

With new European privacy regulations scheduled to take effect this week, the time is ripe for data management companies that manage compliance needs across multiple cloud platforms. Informatica LLC, which offers integration software for cloud data management, appears to be in a good position to take full advantage of the General Data Protection Regulation that ...

Pure Storage Inc. is raising the stakes in the artificial intelligence game for the storage market. On Wednesday, the company announced a second AI-ready infrastructure offering called the AIRI Mini that was architected in collaboration with Nvidia Corp. The AI solution is designed to help speed AI adoption for enterprise customers. “They want to be ...

What keeps chief information officers up at night? Time, money and risk. The triple-headed monster accounts for the biggest source of heartburn for information technology executives when it comes to database migration. This is why Datometry Inc. has been one of the first companies to acknowledge the concern and offer a solution for database migration ...

The development and deployment of the Kubernetes container management platform is just one example of a technology that Google Inc. developed first as an internal tool and then made available in the enterprise community where it took off like a rocket. One container survey in 2016 found that over 50 percent of respondents did not use containers ...