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 ...

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 ...