Could Metallic and Hedvig provide the tailwind that Commvault Systems Inc. is looking for? The data backup and recovery provider launched Metallic in October as a new software-as-a-service portfolio that enabled protection for on-premises, cloud-based and hybrid file data. Commvault has since continued to refine and promote the product since through a recent partnership with ...

The enterprise has moved beyond storing information in a data lake and is now heavily focused on strategically fishing out what is critical, trustworthy and properly governed to run a business. A need for integration and the right automated tools to make that happen have been further accelerated by the global pandemic and the sudden demand ...

In the online underground, crime not only pays but attackers are rapidly developing tools and networks that rival those of legitimate enterprises today. Recent news of the hack by a Russian espionage group against vaccine development organizations and wholesale hijacking of Twitter accounts, including those of prominent business and government leaders, could well be nothing ...

Despite a pandemic that has disrupted business around the globe, startup companies in the tech are still getting funded. Ten Silicon Valley startup companies disclosed funding of more than $270 million in the past week alone. One of the recently reported investments included $15 million for Snorkel AI, a data-first, application programming interface-driven platform to ...

The project management maxim of being able to pick any two from “good, cheap, fast” got a reboot on Wednesday when VMware Inc. released updates for its VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid service. Only this time, the virtualization software giant wants to give customers a chance to pick all three. The latest news featured enhancements ...

If there was ever a prime example of the need to transform a business model ahead of the competition, it was Charles Schwab Corp. The financial services company sprang from the deregulation of brokerage commissions in 1975 and quickly built an empire based on 24-hour trading and significantly discounted fees. Then, in the 1990s, the ...

Styra Inc. is offering a double-barreled approach to bolstering security and compliance in the cloud-native world. Through the company’s open-source Open Policy Agent, software developers can apply security and compliance policies to the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. Styra is also providing a software-as-a-service declarative authorization service product — Styra DAS — to help enterprises ensure that workloads ...

For much of the past year, Dell Technologies Inc. has been leveraging its relationship with VMware Inc. to advance the hyperconverged infrastructure in meeting the multicloud demands of its customers. Recent announcements from Dell now appear to be aimed at taking that approach to the “extreme.” In a series of announcements made as part of ...

For many years, the branded motto for open-source giant SUSE Group was “Power of Many.” After SUSE’s acquisition of Kubernetes startup Rancher Labs Inc. today, a new motto — now prominently displayed on the websites of both companies — reads “Stronger. Together.” “With the combination of Rancher and SUSE going forward, we’re going to be able to supply ...

The state of data protection in the cloud today is analogous to renting a seaside home for the weekend, dropping off all belongings, and then heading for the beach without locking the front door. If all the possessions get stolen, is it the fault of the homeowner for not providing proper security or the renter ...