Many companies would probably admit they have not spent enough on information technology system upgrades. Refresh budgets often do not survive when confronted with the realities of cost management in today’s competitive business environment. Yet when one scientific research firm realized it needed to make the investment in IT necessary to meet the basic mission ...

It’s every data center manager’s worst nightmare. Two active directory controllers broke over the weekend, and now the information technology department at the Baloise Group faced the uncomfortable prospect that if a third controller failed, 1,500 branch personnel would be unable to do their critical work for an entire day. “This could have cost us half a ...

Dell’s privatization in 2013 and $67 billion merger with EMC has been a four-year epic, running longer than many television series. The newly branded company that emerged — Dell Technologies Inc. — now stores more than half of the mission-critical data in the world, according to Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell. And the company has ...

The data explosion hit the University of British Columbia hard a few years ago, because provincial law required that personal information in the custody of a public institution had to be stored and accessed only in Canada. So the school’s information technology department developed its own private cloud to handle the load. While that may ...

Through the first half of this year, the number of U.S. data breaches reached a record 791, which is 29 percent higher than a year ago. And a survey of leading security experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, last month found that 60 percent believed there will be a successful attack on ...

NetApp Inc. is moving more into the enterprise business, and it is leveraging a strong partnership with Veeam Software Inc. to accomplish that. Both companies believe that as enterprise customers digitally transform their businesses, they will need the flexibility to manage and move data across on premise, public cloud or private cloud platforms. “Where NetApp ...

The banking industry has been buffeted by the winds of change as international regulation and increasing cyberattacks are forcing financial institutions to ensure they have the strongest possible security controls and backups for critical data. This has forced data center managers to pay closer attention to making sure they have the right data recovery tools ...

During a major computer security conference two years ago, Zscaler set up a booth on the tradeshow floor and spent the week destroying various security devices made by other companies with a large hammer. The point did not go unnoticed. As business moved to the cloud, the need for appliances to guard the network was ...

The growth of big data has led many organizations to store petabytes of valuable information in a centralized repository, more out of necessity than by design. But the value of a central data lake is increasingly being questioned, as end-users demand access to key datasets for running distributed applications. That’s why companies such as Unifi ...

Many years ago, a beverage company advertised its latest low-calorie product by proclaiming that “it tastes great and is less filling.” Now Twitter has borrowed a page from that script with the release of Twitter Lite, a Progressive Web App that could be described as one that “launches faster and takes less space.” Twitter Lite ...