The evolution of the public cloud over the past 15 years has been all about building — creating infrastructure to power enterprises of any size on a global basis. That has set the stage for another chapter in the cloud story. It’s one in which new businesses will be built on top of cloud platforms ...

Nothing in the tech industry stays the same as products and technologies are constantly evolving, and the cloud is a living example. The cloud started as a place where enterprises could run key applications off-premises in secure environments. That transformed to a cloud native model where applications were built and run on the cloud platform. ...

The cybersecurity world is a race against time: Organizations have a finite amount of resources and limited runway to find and fix bugs in code before malicious actors can discover and exploit them with damaging results. The way to best minimize this exposure is to fix bugs before software has been deployed into cloud native ...

After serving in senior-level executive positions over the past two decades for influential enterprise technology companies such as VMware Inc., Splunk Inc., EMC and ServiceNow Inc., Muddu Sudhakar has developed a sense of where the tech industry is headed. From his perspective, that next wave will not involve simply compute or storage but service delivery models ...

Holger Mueller has the tricky job of deciphering the future performance of a car while it moves at 140 miles per hour down the technology highway. That’s the nature of the cloud industry, which has seen a constant stream of new product offerings, shifting customer needs and key acquisitions. Take the headline-making purchase of Slack Technologies ...

There are times when a centralized data source may not always be a good idea. In a paper published in May 2019, Zhamak Dehghani (pictured), director of Next Tech Incubation NA at ThoughtWorks Inc., uncovered the trouble with data lakes. Despite hefty investments by major enterprises, such centralized reservoirs have created failure modes in deriving ...

He came to the United States with only $900 in his pocket and is now retired from the company he built into a $1.6 billion hyperconverged infrastructure software juggernaut. Dheeraj Pandey (pictured) stepped down from his role as co-founder and chief executive officer of Nutanix Inc. last year after an 11-year run building the company ...

Companies undergoing a major transition don’t generally see major investment, as venture capitalists often prefer to take a cautious approach before diving in. That’s why Bain Capital’s investment of $750 million in Nutanix Inc. last year received a great deal of attention in the tech world. Nutanix, a key player in the hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI ...

One of the maxims in the technology world is that much of what powered innovation over the past decade will likely be replaced by something new in the current decade. The rise of the data processing unit provides a prime example of this reality. By more efficiently executing data-centric computations within server nodes, the DPU ...

Interest in low-code no-code application development continues to grow, and major enterprise companies are positioning for a central role in what is turning into a promising business. Gartner has predicted that in two years, more than 50% of medium-sized to large enterprises will have adopted some form of a low-code/no-code platform. Expansion of new tools ...