In the 1999 sci-fi action thriller “The Matrix,” one of the lead characters confronts a choice between taking a red pill to learn a life-changing truth about the future or a blue pill that will keep him in blissful ignorance. Google Cloud is extending the red pill/blue pill analogy to encompass a third option surrounding ...

Among the many questions surrounding VMware Explore this week was how the partnership between Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. would continue nearly one year after Dell divested VMware from the corporate family. According to executives from both firms, the partnership has remained strong, and the conference schedule provided testimony for that. “Here at VMware ...

We have already seen the “Great Resignation” when 47 million Americans voluntarily quit their jobs in 2021. In VMware Inc.’s view of the technology universe, 2022 will be the year of the “Great Replatforming.” At the VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco this week, Chief Executive Raghu Raghuram (pictured) appeared on the keynote stage and ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is making a global push for supply chain security in its server line. Two years ago, HPE launched its Trusted Supply Chain initiative to advance end-to-end security in servers for U.S. federal and public sector customers. This month, HPE is announcing an expansion of this program globally for its ProLiant server ...

At a time when kids his age were playing Little League baseball or collecting marbles, Bassam Tabbara (pictured) was already a developer. He got his first computer as a child and started his own company at 14. “I started programming when I was nine,” said Tabbara, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE Media. “I was immediately ...

When EMC Corp. acquired VMware Inc. for $625 million in 2004, it was also the first year of VMworld. So perhaps it is only fitting that on the first gathering of VMware Explore in San Francisco this month, an acquisition is again front-page news. The newly renamed event comes at a time when much of ...

Events of the past year have focused the security community on a shifting environment in which tech vulnerabilities are playing a role in warfare, DevOps and global finance. Examples of this new reality can be seen in the use of cyber weapons during the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, persistent vulnerabilities found in the use ...

The rise of supercloud has raised an intriguing question about the cloud market’s future: How will the major cloud providers react to having companies such as Snowflake Inc., Zscaler Inc. and Databricks Inc. building highly successful businesses on top of hyperscale platforms? On one hand, Amazon Web Services Inc. generates a handsome profit from its ...

The growth of superclouds, abstraction layers above and across hyperscale infrastructure, is leading to the creation of firms specifically designed to provide such services. One of these is Prosimo.io, a company that built its business around supporting a multicloud infrastructure strategy for delivering applications. It is a prime example of how the supercloud is filling ...

Technology has unintended consequences, and this reality is getting much of the security world’s focus as events play out this year. There was news at the Black Hat 2022 cybersecurity conference this week about creating an open standard for analyzing enterprise data, innovative new security tools and a declaration by the former head of government cybersecurity that ...