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 ...

Recent reports indicate more than $90 billion will be spent on cybersecurity in 2017. In the aftermath of some of the largest data breaches in history, does anyone really believe it’s been money well spent? One top security company executive certainly doesn’t think so. “Organizations are spending 10 percent more on security, but the reality is that ...

When computers and nuclear equipment were attacked at a facility in Iran by the infamous Stuxnet worm in 2010, security researchers were amazed at the malware’s ability to bypass checks that required valid digital signatures. These software signatures are important because they are designed to block installation of malicious code. However, researchers divulged last week ...

Silicon Valley lore often focuses on the founders of major companies who later went on to become household names worldwide. Think Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple Computer Inc., Larry Ellison at Oracle Corp., or Bill Hewlett and David Packard at Hewlett-Packard Co. But many of the technology industry’s untold stories involve the people ...

If the race for dominance in the cloud service provider market was a marathon road race, the current leaders of the running pack would be Amazon Web Services Inc. with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform striving to catch up. But industry observers believe the “race” as it stands today is only in the first ...