Until now, the general principle surrounding the gathering of data is that too much is never enough. But with the strict General Data Protection Regulation going into effect next May for companies with operations in Europe or any company that holds data on European citizens, there is a distinct possibility that a significant amount of data ...

The job description for most corporate chief revenue officers is to optimize the sales pipeline and generate a healthy profit stream. When Lou Attanasio (pictured) stepped into the role for Nutanix Inc. this month, he knew the challenge would be to keep a fast-moving hyperconverged infrastructure company on its rapid ascent in a highly competitive ...

Earlier this year, Nutanix Inc. executives went out of their way to emphasize the positive nature of the company’s relationship with Dell EMC. The integration of Nutanix software on Dell’s PowerEdge servers has been a benefit to both companies was the message in a conference call with analysts. Fast forward to the Nutanix .NEXT EU ...

It’s not often representatives from three of the most powerful media technology companies in the world appear together, but that is exactly what happened last week in Washington, D.C. Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter were called to testify before the U.S. Congress about the spread of disinformation during the 2016 presidential election by Russian operatives. ...

When Anja Manuel (pictured), co-founder and partner at RiceHadleyGates LLC., was in China recently for a conference, she arrived back at her hotel and discovered more than 1,000 people mobbing the lobby, all with their phones out and poised to take pictures. Was it Xi Jinping, China’s president? Or perhaps a major international movie star? ...

Nutanix Inc. has plenty of moves it can make on the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, chessboard. Integrating Apache more fully into its offerings may very well be one of them. “To me, the single biggest game changer for the company would be in what else we can do with Apache. Over time, we’ll do many ...

The co-founder of an influential cybersecurity think tank believes that weaponization of major social media websites and search engines will lay the foundation for cyberwarfare on a scale unimaginable until now. “The year 2020 is going to be a tug of war for the psychological core of the population, and it’s fair game,” said James ...

In the highly competitive enterprise computing space, it’s necessary for infrastructure providers to go where the business is. Right now, customer IT operations are scattered among public and private clouds, as well as on-premises data centers. Nutanix Inc. has nimbly positioned itself as the management layer that sits over the multicloud environment, and it is ...

The world of cybercrime has evolved from “hacktivists,” groups of hackers who break into systems to make a political point, to criminal gangs scattered around the globe who successfully breach networks, usually really big companies, because that’s where the profits are. “They operate it like a business. At the end of the day, it’s cash,” ...

When Salesforce.com Inc. unveiled its new artificial intelligence platform in September of last year, the company chose a small, cartoonish figure with a bushy mustache and mop of unruly white hair to symbolize the most recent addition to its portfolio. At Dreamforce, the major annual conference held this week in San Francisco by the customer relationship ...