The founders of Aiven built their expertise by managing critical data infrastructure for major businesses, such as Nokia Corp. and F-Secure Inc., and they noticed that solutions had either become proprietary or challenging to implement and achieve meaningful business results. Instead, they built their new company around an open-source data cloud that organizations could use to ...

When the cloud community gathered in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent one year ago, generative artificial intelligence was scarcely mentioned. Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. made a series of announcements during its annual conference that underscored how the technology has moved to the top of the cloud giant’s agenda. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled what ...

While the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz may be best known as an investor in major successes such as Slack, Airbnb and Instacart, its very first investment turned out fairly well too. That would be Apptio Inc., provider of hybrid business management software for the IT industry, which was acquired by IBM Corp. earlier this ...

There was once a time when the number of vendors in the IT conversation was largely confined to how many were represented within the four walls of a data center. Times have changed. With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, the number of vendors available to supply products and services is now seemingly infinite. Software-as-a-service ...

Containerized applications are taking cloud-native on a new journey. Enterprise migration to hybrid models has opened new vistas in the computing landscape, where users want applications closer to the data. This means edge locations — in the cloud or on-premises. In 2022, Dell Technologies Inc. formed a strategic collaboration with Red Hat Inc. to create an ...

Artificial intelligence is driving a major sea change in the high-performance computing world. At the Supercomputing 2023 event last week, experts from throughout the HPC ecosystem gathered in Denver, Colorado, to assess the state of their industry. What they found was a technology on the brink of a transformative era, one that will be driven ...

Dell Technologies Inc. is continuing to roll out enhancements and new features for its APEX as-a-service portfolio. This week, the company announced general availability of new capabilities for multicloud management along with APEX Block Storage for Amazon Web Services Inc. public cloud users. “Our first set of management and operations capabilities within the Dell APEX ...

When high-performance computing industry experts gathered at SC22 last year, they were greeted with the introduction of the PowerEdge XE9680, the high-end AI training platform on display from Dell Technologies Inc. One year later, Dell and its partner Broadcom Inc. are working on the next chapter for AI servers, which will address the performance of ...

Less than a month after announcing that it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, Cribl Inc. unveiled a new partnership on Wednesday with Elasticsearch Inc. The observability company’s strategic collaboration with Elastic will provide customers with increased data flexibility; improved capabilities for security information and event management, or SIEM; and simplified migrations to ...

One of the challenges for high-performance computing is to enable organizations to access massive amounts of data and deliver that to applications regardless of where these sit in the enterprise. This is a complicated problem to solve in the current hybrid computing world, and Sycomp, A Technology Company Inc., a global provider of data center, ...