During what was largely viewed as a cattle stampede to the public cloud, enterprise information technology managers suddenly came to the realization that they might be leaving something important behind: their data. This sudden moment of clarity changed the “public cloud or bust” movement into something that analysts at Wikibon Inc. have termed an evolution ...

Red Hat Inc. introduced several new tools for its Ansible automation platform on Thursday that are designed to further the cause for automating huge enterprise information technology operations. Ansible bills itself as a simple “IT automation engine” that automates cloud provisioning, software configuration management, application deployment and other IT tasks. The new solutions are meant ...

With a wide range of technologies for the enterprise, Dell EMC is seeking to meet customer needs across the spectrum, from a basic “do-it-yourself” hardware infrastructure to the fully integrated, pre-configured VxRail hyperconverged appliance. The company’s intent is to help manage transitions in enterprise computing by offering products to customers that instill confidence rather than ...

The challenge many data center managers face today is how to modernize without breaking the budget. Recognizing that its customers have responded favorably to turnkey solutions at the systems level, using converged infrastructure, or CI, products — such as VxBlock — Dell EMC has continued to refine its Vscale architecture, which is designed to scale-out ...

If the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, was a TV show, it would be airing at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night in all of the big markets, the prime viewing hour. The technology that consolidates compute, storage and networking into one system has gone mainstream in the enterprise as executives for Dell EMC have witnessed ...

Sometimes it’s really easy to have too much of good thing. In a hyperconverged, scaled-out backup system, there can be numerous motherboards, multiple persistence drives and hardware duplicates as far as the eye can see. That’s why Brian Biles (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Datrium Inc., looked for a storage solution that could ...

An International Data Corp. research has tabbed the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, market as the fastest-growing converged systems segment for the first quarter this year. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are clearly intent of taking full advantage of that growth as evidenced by recent announcements during VMworld in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dell EMC will now ...

When Nutanix Inc. released Acropolis, its turnkey solution for managing the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, two years ago, the promotional messaging around the technology included the word “simplicity” in nearly every other sentence. Fast forward to 2017, and the message is still the same. “We believe that making things simple for our customers does not stop ...

Cybersecurity has become an $80 billion industry, growing at 10 percent per year. But despite the hefty amount of investment in security tools and products, the number of attacks is outpacing the spend rate — and this has many industry leaders and security experts concerned. “The number of attacks is increasing much more than 10 ...

There are a lot of things the internet can do without, but the domain name system, or DNS, isn’t one of them. Without a directory of domain names that can be translated into recognizable addresses, the internet simply would not work. And that’s why when criminals launch distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks using ...