Major companies do not go through the trouble of developing new products without some measure of confidence that customers want them. In this regard, the flurry of announcements rolled out by Cisco Systems Inc. at its Cisco Live event in March offered an instructive look at the future expected for enterprise-grade computing networks. Cisco’s latest ...

Pure1, a platform for storage management and support first introduced by Pure Storage Inc. in 2015, has received a significant update to help manage the demands of modern IT. The company recently announced its new and improved Pure1 Digital Experience. Pure Storage users can now take advantage of new automated monitoring and AI-driven recommendations with self-service ...

In the aftermath of two headline-grabbing attacks over the past six months, more high-profile security researchers and analysts are beginning to cast a wary eye at internal systems and technology tools. The SolarWinds breach, a compromise of third-party software used to protect networks in the U.S. government and four-fifths of Fortune 500 companies, was discovered ...

The acquisition of Portworx Inc. by Pure Storage Inc. for $370 million last year was viewed as opening a new buying opportunity for Pure with the DevOps community. According to Portworx’s co-founder and former chief executive, the two firms have been working together in precisely that direction. “Pure had this outstanding core infrastructure product, well ...

IDC has predicted that by 2022, 90% of global enterprises will rely on a blending of multiple public clouds, on-premises/dedicated private clouds and legacy platforms. That’s a sizable market that will be dependent on a hybrid cloud strategy, and two major companies in the IT world are positioning to take full advantage of the opportunity. ...

When Cisco Systems Inc. announced Cisco Plus, its as-a-service model for compute, networking and storage hardware, in late March, it was telling which of the new features would be introduced first this year. It was Cisco Plus Hybrid Cloud, scheduled for release in mid-2021. That Cisco would lead with its hybrid cloud offering, which combines ...

Among the many transformations that took place as a result of the global pandemic was disruption of traditional data sources. If a restaurant suddenly had to suspend operations for six months and needed a loan, how could a lender rely on profit and loss statements or tax returns to evaluate the risk? This is the ...

A commonly understood principle in the tech world is that over time, every industry ultimately gets disrupted. It’s MySQL’s turn. The popular database technology was due for a shakeup after nearly 26 years. That disruption has recently been fueled by Oracle Corp., which released MySQL HeatWave in December. Other major cloud players and a growing ...

Commvault Systems Inc. is in its 25th year as an independent company, but it is an internal 18-month-old service that’s giving the company the look of a hot startup. The storage and data protection company unveiled a cloud-based backup and recovery SaaS service called Metallic in October 2019 and has been pleased with the traction ...

Rohit Ghai was named president of RSA Inc. in January 2017. His keynote address as part of the firm’s annual cybersecurity conference this month was his fifth, but it may well have been the first time that the words “chaos monkey” were part of his remarks. Chaos Monkey, originally designed by Netflix Inc. over a ...