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SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
How AWS built its new satellite ‘ground station as a service’
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 ...
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To handle the data tsunami, Juniper’s founder turns to custom silicon
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 ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Recapping AWS re:Invent’s innovation blitz, CEO Andy Jassy says much more’s on the way
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 ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Will new Amazon chip cause trouble for Intel? Don’t bet on it, analysts say
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. ...
Customer acceptance and financial results show that Nutanix vision is making an impact
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 ...
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For Nutanix CEO, core infrastructure needs to be more than ‘good enough’
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 ...
Nutanix earnings show promise as analysts seek more detail on hybrid strategy
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 ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Outposts could widen Amazon’s lead in hybrid cloud
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 ...
Partnership with AWS speeds cloud service adoption for Druva’s data-driven customers
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 ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Analysis: New Global Accelerator is part of AWS strategy to move up the stack
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 ...








