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 ...

After more than a year of testing, IBM Corp. recently opened its Watson Machine Learning service to the general public. In making new machine learning tools available to developers and data scientists, IBM is clearly seeking to counter concerns expressed by industry analysts that the company is struggling to recoup its $20 billion investment in ...

The experience of a technology company’s chief executive officer can often be a roller coaster ride with highs, lows, dips, hairpin turns, sudden drops and a lot of bumping around. So Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive of VMware Inc., could probably be forgiven if he pleads a severe case of whiplash. After taking the company’s helm in ...

As the information technology infrastructure evolves, with differing levels of abstraction and complexity, monitoring and managing it also becomes more difficult. With a revolving carousel of options encompassing servers, storage, on-premises operations and public cloud, the overall network can easily get overlooked. One tech evangelist and executive at unified monitoring software company CA Technologies Inc. ...

Imagine the experience of driving today’s car without any dashboard. No speedometer, gas gauge, trouble lights or temperature controls. That’s the example that unified monitoring software company CA Technologies Inc. likes to use when describing the challenge facing network administrators who must manage an increasingly complex cloud and hybrid-information technology infrastructure. “The IT team needs ...

Industry analysts had no shortage of opinions at this week’s VMworld event in Las Vegas. Some new partnership announcements were major and gathered well-deserved attention; others fell flat. There was plenty of energy, fueled by a large number of new attendees, but fierce competition in the cloud space will bring added pressure next year to ...

When IBM Corp. announced its second quarter earnings in June, the news of two straight growth quarters in the company’s storage business got some attention. With flash as a catalyst and storage hardware margins on the rise, it made sense that the company would seek to capitalize on that momentum with announcements as part of ...

While there has been plenty of news this week surrounding VMware Inc.’s latest offerings, Dell EMC has not been lost in the shuffle. The company made several significant announcements involving the Software-Defined Data Center, turnkey hybrid cloud platforms and a set of pre-tested, cloud-ready systems that combine Dell EMC and VMware products. “Our job is ...