Among the many announcements made by VMware Inc. during VMworld in October was the launch of Edge Compute Stack. A key element of the solution, which combined virtual machine and container-based stacks for modernizing edge-native applications, was an ability to provide real-time compute. This has opened up the hypervisor to support the operational technology space ...

Competition and partnership are not widely found in combination, but Dell Technologies Inc. and Equinix Inc. have created a business relationship that manages to successfully blend the best of both. As a provider of datacenter services in over 60 markets on five continents, Equinix faces competition from Dell’s APEX and datacenter-as-a-service capabilities. However, Equinix has ...

The storage software innovations announced by Dell Technologies Inc. on Monday reinforced the company’s position in building new levels of automation, security and multicloud functionality for the enterprise. A key part of Dell’s innovation revolves around hardware and its partner ecosystem to deliver new solutions. “Dell is still doing a lot of the really hard ...

After Dell Technologies Inc. introduced more than 500 storage portfolio advancements today, which included updates to boost services across multicloud environments, the company’s founder underscored his firm’s continued focus on the edge. “There are 7 million cellular base stations in the world, and every one of those is becoming a datacenter,” said Michael Dell (pictured), ...

By the company’s own estimate, Amazon Web Services Inc. has helped tens of thousands of businesses launch and scale on AWS since 2012. At the end of 2019, AWS formalized that process with the introduction of its Global Startup Program, an invite-only, go-to-market opportunity for mid-to-late-stage startups seeking a springboard to growth. A number of ...

Open source has altered a great deal of the IT landscape, and is transforming the hybrid cloud as well. This is one of the fundamental premises behind Red Hat Inc.’s strategy for a hybrid cloud future, one that will be shaped by innovation generated from the open-source ecosystem. Red Hat’s vision for the open hybrid ...

Look up the definition of “snark” in a dictionary and don’t be surprised if the name “Corey Quinn” appears somewhere in the description. Quinn (pictured), chief cloud economist of The Duckbill Group, has no problem being associated with snark. If fact, the influential Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud billing adviser, who was the subject of ...

While much of the focus in the enterprise world has been on software applications, understanding the data generated from apps has become just as important. This is the premise for Observe Inc., a five-year-old startup founded on the belief that enterprises are data rich and information poor. There is a business need to get answers ...

There will be two “firsts” on the agenda for Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas next month. It will be the first time Dell Technologies Inc. has been able to hold an in-person technology event since 2019, and it marks the first time the gathering has been held since Dell completed the spinoff of VMware ...

As Amazon Web Services Inc. moves further into 2022, the cloud giant is showing a clear focus on data services and serverless computing. The company’s groundwork in both areas was unveiled in late November when it made a series of announcements during the annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. AWS followed this up today with general ...