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When Dell Technologies Inc. places the word “project” in front of a new initiative, it’s sending up a signal flare that starts the clock toward emergence of a new product or platform the next year. Project Alpine, announced last year, transformed into …
AI, edge and multicloud lead the conversation in Las Vegas as Dell embraces role as enterprise collaborator
Dell Technologies Inc. kicked off its Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas today with a number of additions to its APEX product portfolio. Yet it was artificial intelligence that captured much of the interest in a news conference following the opening …
Three insights you might have missed from the ‘Navigating the Road to Cyber Resiliency’ event
Organizations can’t protect against everything. They can’t predict what will happen next or how severe the attack may be. This places a great deal of focus on resiliency, an ability to recover from a damaging breach. While some organizations may feel that …
What to expect during the ‘Analytics and Cost Optimization’ AWS Startup Showcase event: Join theCUBE June 8
Optimization has emerged as a defining trend within the cloud industry in 2023. Evidence of this can be seen in SiliconANGLE’s recent analysis of comments made by the chief financial officers of the three largest hyperscale cloud companies last month. All three …
Momento believes in serverless to solve database caching headaches
When users visit Momento Inc.’s website, the message is hard to miss. Right from the opening screen, the company’s motto, “Believe in Serverless,” conveys the startup’s approach. Momento believes in serverless because it drives the company’s mission to automatically optimize, scale and …
Pepperdata and AWS join forces to tackle big data cost challenges
Founded in 2012, Pepperdata Inc. is a big data infrastructure management company that has grown by moving its cost-savings solutions from on-premises to the cloud. In doing so, Pepperdata has formed a partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., which leveraged the startup’s …
nOps leverages AI to optimize cloud costs in pay-for-savings-only model
In a traditional business model, a vendor provides a service for a fee whether success is realized or not. At the cloud management platform provider nOps Inc., no one gets paid until a customer saves money. This unusual approach is based on …
Archera.ai takes aim at controlling cloud costs through optimized commitment plans
A simple error can lead to costly, wasted cloud resources. One example can be found in the customer whose keystroke mistake led to the spin-up of a cloud instance much larger than was required. No one noticed, the job ran all weekend, …
Vulnerability of business lines to attack drives new conversations around cyber resilience
The cyber-resilience conversation is shifting into a new phase, one where the focus is now on core engines that drive a business. “I’ve been talking to our customers now about cyber resilience and recovery from ransomware destruction for eight years,” said Jim …
Data protection moves to the forefront as cyber threats and AI usage expand
The enterprise IT world has moved into a new phase. Until recently, most organizations were rapidly growing infrastructure to meet escalating business demand. However, as the economy cooled and as cyber threats grew, the focus has shifted more toward protecting infrastructure than …