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Data analysis helps cloud providers too: Inside the Commvault-AWS partnership
It’s not just cloud customers that are looking for patterns in their data — they’re using patterns analysis to fix issues, drive growth and deliver customer satisfaction — but the cloud providers themselves are keen to understand customer data patterns. Amazon Web Services Inc. and data management software company Commvault Systems Inc. recently explained that ...
Cataloging data superseding scaling as trouble area, says Select Star exec
Enterprises are sitting on top of a mass amount of data that they have no idea how to use. And even if they have access to it, they aren’t au fait with what’s actually inside the collections — so it’s unworkable. This is according to a company that claims to catalog data automatically — and ...
Software over network layers key to collaboration, says Lumen
Layering the software technologies created by VMware Inc. over an extensive backbone network developed by Lumen Technologies Inc is how the fiber company sees its relationship with VMware, according to Steve Grabow (pictured), senior vice president of technology solutions and services, strategic alliances and portfolio strategy at Lumen. “We can bring that all together,” he ...
The networked CPU is shifting with the addition of data processing units: AMD explains
Server consolidation is becoming an increasingly important part of major semiconductor device manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s reach, according to Kumaran Siva (pictured), corporate vice president of strategic business development at AMD. He believes that companies upgrading aging servers not only massively reduce their costs because of new-found efficiencies, but it also allows for new enterprise ...
AMD migration tool takes aim at virtual machines
A recently released VMware Architecture Migration Tool, from Advanced Micro Systems Inc., significantly speeds up CPU-to-CPU migrations on x86 systems, according to a technical expert at AMD. Channel partners, who are involved in small- and mid-sized organizations, looking to add value, could benefit, along with large deployments in enterprise, says Jason Collier (pictured), principal member of ...
How to disrupt the economics of cybercrime, according to a bot protection expert
Spiking the cost of a cyberattack is one key to thwarting hackers, says a bot protection expert. “Disrupt the economics of cybercrime,” said Rick Holtman (pictured), vice president of sales and media security at Human Security Inc. “The minute there is money moving towards any sort of industry, you’ll see fraud right behind it.” That’s ...
Machines are needed to find complex software problems, humans can’t do it, says AI firm
Finding rare events in software applications is one of the principal reasons artificial intelligence succeeds in increasingly complex environments, says a DevOps trouble automaton expert. “It’s telling you this cluster of events is both unusual and unlikely to be random,” said Ajay Singh (pictured left), founder and chief executive officer of Zebrium Inc., a machine ...
Break down silos to solve problems in the era of unified data
Fragmented, siloed data is slowing down business for organizations across the board, because the relationships between people, products and their companies can’t be clearly sourced if data is isolated in traditional repositories. “You have to stitch it together in order to create that holistic, 360-degree view,” said Manish Sood (pictured), founder, chairman and chief executive ...
DevOps plus legacy on-prem drive Dell’s direction
Dell Technologies Inc. is adapting to customers shifting to a DevOps operating model, according to an executive from the company who is tasked with managing the cultural transition. Traditionally a technology company selling and supporting computers and servers, among other hardware-focused products, Dell is now faced with increasing cloud-computing adoption — and infrastructure-as-code, where physical ...
DevOps now supersedes IT, says storage expert
Engineering, rather than IT, is calling the shots in modern, digitized business practices, according to some industry sources. That’s, in part, because developers are now the business. That shift in corporate emphasis — away from IT and in favor of DevOps — is a major trend manifesting itself throughout industries like banking, according to one ...