Splunk Inc.’s mission is to investigate, analyze and act on data at any scale. But users must be able to observe and monitor the data they are working with, and this goes to the heart of the company’s value proposition. Splunk makes software that analyzes server and application data to identify performance issues. Observability becomes ...

In early October, Citrix Systems Inc. announced a new Secure Private Access Service for its SASE portfolio. It is designed to provide a cloud delivered Zero Trust Network Access platform that is transparent to the user and guards against unwarranted intrusion regardless of where someone may be working. The latest Citrix solution was a recognition that ...

One key trend worth watching at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event will be progress on the open hybrid cloud. The concept brings interoperability, workload portability and open-source software to the cloud computing environment. It has been widely discussed in company forums for major tech players, including Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Nutanix ...

Should the global cloud market be centered so much on the United States? A number of nations in Europe don’t think so, and that’s beginning to drive a noticeable shift toward country-specific sovereign clouds. The issue is data, where it resides and who controls it. As Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC built ...

As the cloud native computing world prepares to gather in Los Angeles for a mixed virtual and in-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event, the conference tag of “Resilience Realized” has taken on special meaning.  The tech industry was essentially thrown into the breach in 2020 when a global pandemic closed most businesses and the world shifted ...

When Dell Technologies Inc. released the first details of its all-flash object storage appliance – the EXF900 – late last year, it declared a break from the perception of object as “slow, cheap and deep.” In a sign of change within the object store arena, Dell EMC is now also providing ObjectScale with a software-defined, ...

At the pace that Pure Storage Inc. is rolling out new coding platforms and data services initiatives, the 12-year-old all-flash array pioneer might soon want to consider dropping “storage” from its logo. Pure is looking more like an IT infrastructure services delivery business, based in particular on a recent set of announcements in late September. ...

Enterprise servers and storage will now discover each other more efficiently as the result of a new offering jointly released by Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. The two firms announced a NVMe over Fabrics solution using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol to deliver faster software-defined connectivity for data on demand in on-premises, edge or multicloud ...

The operating system that powers more than 90% of the world’s top servers and cloud infrastructure as well as the internet, Android smartphones, supercomputers, connected cars and the International Space Station was almost named “Freax.” “I think I emailed five people about the 0.0 release,” said Linus Torvalds (pictured, left), the inventor of Linux, who recalled that ...

There is a saying in the business world that “customers vote with their feet,” meaning they will move toward products they prefer to use and willfully ignore others. A form of this is currently playing out in the IT automation space where tech firms, such as Red Hat Inc., are seeing a wider scale adoption ...