When IBM announced its intention to acquire Red Hat Inc. for $34 billion in 2018, it was widely viewed as a sign that the open-source train had finally arrived in the station. Less than three years later, open source has grown to encompass not only the station, but the train tracks and surrounding enterprise territory ...

The storage industry is experiencing a transformation driven by a simple fact: Enterprise users need storage to do a whole lot more. What propels this need is complexity of the data pipeline. Every organization is filled with data today. What’s missing is a fast path to insight from that mass of business-critical information. To address ...

The path toward digital modernization is not an easy one, as many enterprises are discovering. While events of 2020 forced numerous businesses to accelerate plans for transforming IT infrastructure, the process did not always yield the desired outcomes. In fact, research over the past two years has revealed that 70% of digital transformation initiatives fall ...

In 2006, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama published a book, “The Audacity of Hope,” on his way to winning the White House in 2008. If the cybersecurity community were to write a similar treatise today, the appropriate title would most likely be “The Audacity of Hacks.” FireEye Inc. held a series of sessions this month to offer a ...

If failure is not an option for most organizations, then why is it that digital transformation fails to meet objectives 70% of the time? Research by McKinsey & Co. in 2019 documented this failure rate, a number that was more recently confirmed by Boston Consulting Group. This question has become more central in the minds ...

Oracle Corp. did not become a multibillion-dollar technology giant by avoiding comparisons with its competitors. The firm’s recent string of updates for the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse has given the company an opportunity to point out its differences with other major cloud database providers. Based on an exclusive interview with theCUBE by two Oracle senior ...

The need for edge computing has increased through the proliferation of data-gathering devices now located in factories, oil rigs, airplanes, shipping containers, homes and even race cars. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has recently enhanced its SimpliVity offering for the enterprise edge as part of its overall strategy for hyperconvergence, an IT framework that combines compute, storage ...

Enterprise data intelligence solutions provider Alation Inc. is expanding its services across hybrid architecture. Today, the company launched Alation Cloud Service, a cloud-based platform for data intelligence that connects to virtually any data source within cloud platforms or on-premises through cloud native connectors. The goal is to get faster time-to-value from data through effective search ...

The popularity of software-as-a-service applications in the enterprise is also requiring changes in cloud data protection. Today, Dell Technologies Inc. launched Dell EMC PowerProtect Backup Service powered by Druva Inc. to address the need for native data protection without adding new layers of complexity for IT administrators. “Only a couple of years ago, our focus ...

Oracle Corp. has been on something of a roll in 2021. The database giant received a boost from Gartner Inc. just before the start of the new year in a report that ranked the firm high among database management leaders for its ability to leverage on-premises strength in hybrid cloud deployment. In March, the company made ...