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To fully appreciate the journey that Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager of the Management Business Unit at Red Hat Inc., has taken in the technology world, it’s worth looking at the shortest stay in his lengthy career. After co-founding Novadigm Inc. …
Oracle’s Exadata enhancements focus on latency, security and bringing cloud to customer
Oracle Corp. has a longstanding tradition of naming its products for what they do. Labels such as “Oracle Cloud Free Tier” and “Autonomous Database” provide a fairly clear understanding of what these solutions provide. Such is the case for the Oracle Exadata …
Future of observability and application monitoring will be spotlighted during Splunk .conf21 Virtual, Oct. 19-20
Splunk Inc.’s mission is to investigate, analyze and act on data at any scale. But users must be able to observe and monitor the data they are working with, and this goes to the heart of the company’s value proposition. Splunk makes …
Citrix launches zero trust solution as personal and private sector security recover from pandemic
In early October, Citrix Systems Inc. announced a new Secure Private Access Service for its SASE portfolio. It is designed to provide a cloud delivered Zero Trust Network Access platform that is transparent to the user and guards against unwarranted intrusion regardless of …
Watch live: Open hybrid cloud and GitOps among topics slated for coverage at KubeCon, Oct. 13-15
One key trend worth watching at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event will be progress on the open hybrid cloud. The concept brings interoperability, workload portability and open-source software to the cloud computing environment. It has been widely discussed in …
Privacy concerns in Europe prompt VMware to launch sovereign cloud initiative
Should the global cloud market be centered so much on the United States? A number of nations in Europe don’t think so, and that’s beginning to drive a noticeable shift toward country-specific sovereign clouds. The issue is data, where it resides and who …
Security and edge computing on the agenda as open-source community gathers for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Oct. 13-15
As the cloud native computing world prepares to gather in Los Angeles for a mixed virtual and in-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event, the conference tag of “Resilience Realized” has taken on special meaning. The tech industry was essentially thrown into the breach …
Dell replatforms object storage into scalable, high-performance, containerized architecture
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 …
Pure Storage makes its case for role as data infrastructure provider with latest announcements
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 …
Dell and VMware combine to release new NVMe/TCP protocol to speed infrastructure for modern apps
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 …