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Accenture vows to close its gender gap by 2025
While some technology companies hope that outside forces will narrow the gender gap over time, others believe they can do it for themselves with hard numbers and stiff deadlines. Women hold 25 percent of computing jobs, according to the National Center for Women & Technology. Despite this obvious gender gap, 58 percent of men and 46 ...
No cloud agenda: Veritas’ indie advantage in data management
Veritas Technologies LLC once blazoned the phrase no hardware agenda on billboards and T-shirts to promote its software-only storage over competitors like EMC. Years later, the company is again touting its standalone software status — this time in data management. “No hardware agenda is evolving to no cloud agenda,” said Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...
Veritas races into cloud storage with head start in software-defined
Veritas Technologies LLC’s rebranding as a multicloud data management platform has the company darting in many directions. This week’s Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas is ridden with announcements from a new cloud deduplication engine to a partnership with Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Today, Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left) and Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, right), co-hosts of ...
HPE creates composable monster from converged, hyperconverged parts
First converged infrastructure simplified data centers with server-storage-network sandwich appliances. Then hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, commodified the hardware and slapped differentiating software-defined storage on top. Now, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is combining elements of both with composable infrastructure. “We innovated around the best of converged and hyperconveged and put them together into a new category ...
Veritas’ multicloud makeover: Analysts weigh hot air vs. cold facts
It’s not rocket science figuring out what buzzwords to toss around at a tech conference these days. Multicloud and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) are on the list, and they both popped up at the Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas this week. But is Veritas Technologies LLC putting any weight behind them? Dave Vellante (@dvellante) ...
Data management marks true start of Information Age, says Veritas CEO
A single platform for producing real value from data isn’t just one more technology product to throw on the heap. It finally sweeps together the heap, marking the true beginning of the Information Age, according to Bill Coleman (pictured), chief executive officer of Veritas Technologies LLC. “We’ve called this the Information Age for 50 years. But ...
Red Hat wants to make cold-shouldered OpenStack red hot
At OpenStack Summit in Boston last May, some speculated that the event might be the last gasp for the open-source platform for cloud computing and infrastructure as a service. Granted, OpenStack was one of the less hyped open-source projects of the past year. But renewed community and end-user interest is breathing fresh life into the platform, ...
Veritas plans comeback in multicloud market, looks to its roots in data backup
Data protection is hot again, making this the perfect time for data management and backup company Veritas Technologies LLC to rebirth itself. The company was relatively quiet for the past few years, but it’s back now honking a message of data value for multicloud. At today’s keynote during the Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas, speakers were ...
ScaleIO offers a pathway to hyper convergence
Hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI — with its commodity hardware packaged with software-defined storage — departs radically from traditional siloed data center architectures. Vendors banging on about how revolutionary and disruptive HCI is may not realize that that is precisely the problem for some holdouts. “When you introduce HCI to a large enterprise, you’re changing the ...
Private cloud goes up a level via HCI and public cloud on-ramp
Private cloud environments are gaining new powers thanks to hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, and public-cloud compatibility. These infusions are making private clouds easier to manage and giving them the agility and elasticity of public cloud, according to Yanbing Li (pictured, right), senior vice president and general manager of storage and availability at VMware Inc. “Private cloud ...