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 ...

It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect on-premises. This represents an important move worth watching as it signals interest by a major provider in leveraging the power of the cloud to enhance performance levels ...

In the highly competitive technology world, most businesses strive for complete domination of a market by driving out serious competition, a strategy known as “winner take all.” But when it comes to the public cloud landscape and the evolving role of its three largest players – Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC ...

When it comes to achieving enterprise digital resilience on hybrid and multicloud platforms, enterprises are confronting a tall order. This was one of several conclusions drawn from a survey compiled last year by 451 Research. The firm contacted over 1,200 global IT decision makers in 2020 and found that while the journey to hybrid and ...

As the year kicks off in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, the technology world faces an inescapable truth: The cloud is a journey, not a destination. This journey will be explored in depth Thursday, Jan. 21, when SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio theCUBE will launch theCUBE on Cloud, SiliconANGLE’s first virtual editorial event of 2021. ...