If there’s a challenge in today’s data management universe, it’s finding a technology solution that can work effectively across multiple clouds, such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. This is becoming more important as enterprise information technology expands to include numerous platforms where massive amounts of data are stored. As the multicloud ...

Scary sells. That’s often the approach used by many companies when customers have to deal with new laws or regulations where the penalty for non-compliance could be significant. And there may be nothing scarier right now in the data governance arena than the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, scheduled to go into enforceable ...

It was not that long ago when information technology systems managers had a quandary: where to store all the corporate data they possessed without breaking departmental budgets for the year. Today, where to store information is no longer the issue, as costs dropped and storage capacity zoomed. Instead, the new dilemma is how to protect ...

The financial penalties for non-compliance are significant. The requirement to know where all data is kept and be able to delete it when directed is non-negotiable. And supervisory authorities in Europe can initiate audits and suspend data transfers any time. The realities of the General Data Protection Regulation are beginning to set in for any company ...

When Dell Inc. sold off its software division in 2016 prior to the merger with EMC Corp., the only company it kept was a small integration and data management company called Boomi Inc. Last March, the renamed Dell Boomi acquired an even smaller firm called ManyWho Inc., a unified cloud and faster “low-code” software development platform. ...

Millions of data points from smartwatches and fitness trackers generate tremendous amounts of digital records every second, and most of this information goes right into object storage servers, where it’s organized more flexibly than traditional hierarchal methods. Bundled along with metadata and a unique identifier, this fitness data has the potential to alert users of health risks, if ...

When PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, surveyed legal and technology executives from major global firms earlier this year, it found that nearly all (92 percent) considered compliance with new European regulations governing data privacy to be the number one priority on the data management and security agenda. It didn’t take long after that for firms to begin calling ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s acquisition of flash array company Nimble Storage in April was like reaching into a bowl of candy and pulling out three treats instead of only one. For $1.2 billion, HPE added all-flash and hybrid flash/disk array lines, the ability to store data in the public or private cloud near big provider ...

Talk to any chief information officer and phrases like “single-click deployment,” “easier implementation” and “lower costs” will generally get their attention. That’s why the recent news from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. about a composable platform that combines VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation with its Synergy product sounds like music to the ears of enterprise technology managers seeking ...

In the multicloud, software-defined, hyperscale world, Veritas Technologies LLC is all in. The company that separated from Symantec Corp. over two years ago is now firmly on the path to identify itself as a leading data management business, recognizing that information is the coin of the realm. And Veritas made a series of major product ...