The reality in 2021 is that IT infrastructure must facilitate digital business strategies. For storage vendors, data sits at the heart of this model, and the challenge becomes delivering solutions that emulate the cloud experience to drive true business value. Over the past year, Pure Storage Inc. has been following a course that reflects enterprise ...

EC2, also known as Elastic Compute Cloud, sits at the core of the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform, and the company is celebrating the technology’s 15th birthday this year. What many people may not know is that the original version of EC2 was built not in the United States, but in South Africa. EC2, which ...

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, turns 15 years old this year, marking a significant milestone for both the company and the computing world it serves. The EC2 instance, a virtual server running applications on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure, sits at the core of the cloud provider’s platform, allowing users to rent storage, network ...

For a company that emerged from stealth mode only months ago, Dasera Inc. has managed to capture a surprising number of awards. The data security company’s website lists 10 accolades, including a listing among CRN’s “Top 10 Hottest Cloud Security Startups,” and recognition as a winner of the Cyber Defense Magazine Global InfoSec Awards in 2021. ...

After launching MySQL HeatWave in December, Oracle Corp. did not wait long to add enhancements to the database query accelerator and ratchet up the competitive pressure in the process. The company announced a number of new enhancements and features for HeatWave this month. In an exclusive interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming video studio, Nipun ...

The recent partnership between Cloudera Inc. and Nvidia Corp., announced in April, is worth watching as it represents an important step in creating architectures of the future for streamlining data science and machine learning pipelines. This DataOps trend, outlined by research firm Gartner as a key development for 2021, is being driven by growing enterprise ...

Concurrent with the latest enhancements for Oracle Corp.’s HeatWave MySQL database announced today, the company  is beginning to gather and report benchmark data from key customers since introduction of the service in December. The results initially show validation of the company’s claims on cost savings and performance. Two use cases from one U.S. and two ...

Mobile platforms and open-source software emerged as key cybersecurity issues at the annual Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference this week, judging from presentations by a mix of onsite attendees and virtual streaming of briefings from security researchers around the globe. In his opening keynote remarks, Black Hat founder Jeff Moss summed up the general feeling ...

IBM announced enhancements to its storage systems portfolio last month with a focus on two of the hottest topics in the enterprise world: security and as-a-service delivery. The company added new features and protections for its FlashSystem all-flash arrays by offering IBM Safeguarded Copy to create securely isolated data copies that cannot be changed. And ...

Cloudera Inc. has made recent moves landing it prominently in the news. While that has justifiably captured the interest of shareholders and Wall Street, perhaps more significant is the technological direction of the company going forward. Cloudera occupies an important place in the enterprise data cloud platform space, with 1,800 customers and quarterly sales of ...