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 ...

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 ...