In 2006, an online retailer came up with an idea to let users rent unused capacity on the company’s virtual computers. Eleven years later, Amazon Web Services Inc. is generating $16 billion in annual revenue. In 2008, three starving students thought that the notion of renting out unused space in their apartment might form the ...

If there is a single theme surrounding key trends and developments in the digital world over the past year, it is speed. Technology today is like a heavily loaded freight train barreling down the innovation mountain without even the slightest notion of where the brake is, or if it even works. As a tumultuous year ...

Intel’s recently unveiled plans to deploy customized field programmable gate array-based acceleration of storage and computing workloads are welcome news for developers who are pushing the data center boundaries. Fields such as genomics and finance are using increasingly complex data-intensive applications, and the acceleration of workloads in high-performance computing is becoming no longer nice but necessary. ...

Nothing in the technology world can ever be guaranteed, but industry trends and customer preferences reveal a roadmap for where the enterprise computing car is headed. And the driver of that car will be data, the information that every business wants to capture, analyze and use in the pursuit of ultimate success. “There will be ...

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 ...