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 ...

Citrix Systems Inc. took advantage of the first in its series of three Launchpad events on September 28 to unveil a new, intent-based cloud solution that automates application delivery and security in real-time. The Citrix App Delivery and Security Service is designed to remove complexity throughout the app delivery process. For one experienced IT executive, ...

In October 2020, IBM announced that it would spin-off its infrastructure services business unit into a new, independent company. Over the ensuing year, the new, free-standing business has begun to take shape. The new company was named Kyndryl by IBM, a loose blending of the words “kinship” and “tendril.” The name is designed to capture the ...

With a preview of the latest version for Ansible Automation Platform in September, much of the discussion by Red Hat Inc. executives has been focused on taking automation everywhere and making it easier to do so. The key learning from this recent dialogue is that automation is no longer relegated to the list of basic ...

When UiPath Inc. was meeting with investors as part of a successful initial public offering earlier this year, it led with the following statement on the first slide of its financial presentation: “We make software robots, so people don’t have to be robots.” That mantra captured the spirit of what propelled UiPath, yet it has ...

Over the course of its 23 years, VMware Inc. has taken on the persona of a big-wave surfer. The company has ridden a multitude of major technology waves and emerged relatively unscathed on the other side. This journey has included following a huge wave from the datacenter into the cloud and all the way to ...