Given its massive total addressable market estimated in the tens of billions of dollars, the rise of data platforms was inevitable. It’s no surprise that every vendor with a data-related offering is vying for a piece of that lucrative market. But how comparable are the different approaches that exist on the market today? Before diving deep ...

This week, Amazon.com Inc. reported its second-quarter earnings for 2023, returning to double-digit revenue growth — the company’s biggest earnings since the fourth quarter of 2020. TheCUBE industry analysts John Furrier (pictured, left) and Dave Vellante (right) hopped on the mic to discuss how cost optimizations by Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon, resulted in the ...

Exponential data growth has led to a huge need for enterprise data storage, with major players in the data storage industry eyeing increased adoption of next-generation storage solutions, projected to be valued at over $150 billion by 2023. Here’s where the “AI-powered hybrid-multi-super cloud” comes into play, as theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante put it ...

Earlier this year, news hit that computer chipmaker Broadcom Inc. was negotiating to buy the virtualization software giant VMware Inc., a move that won provisional approval in the United Kingdom in July. “Broadcom’s planned $61 billion acquisition of VMware will mark yet another new era for the virtualization leader, a mere seven months after finally getting ...

This week, the world bid farewell to what was previously known as Twitter Inc., as Elon Musk announced the social media platform would be rebranded as X. Musk changed the legal name of Twitter to X Corp. in April, after saying in October 2022 that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything ...

Years ago, IBM Corp. had an event called IBM Edge. Things have certainly changed since then, whether one considers the rise of artificial intelligence in hybrid cloud environments or even the names of various products. Take the platform originally released as General Parallel File System, later renamed Storage Spectrum Scale, and more recently, IBM Storage ...

A few months before the kickoff of theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Savings in the Cloud event, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky stated that optimizations were ongoing in light of the company’s stock dipping. In the midst of ongoing economic uncertainty, the company would look to optimize its cloud spend, Amazon noted. That subject ...

Experts advocate that a proactive approach to data resilience requires identifying threats at the first possible opportunity before they have a chance to infiltrate a system and wreak havoc. Recently, IBM Corp. scientists and engineers developed new techniques for scanning data as it arrives inside a flash array, measuring the entropy of the data — ...

Amid talk of a recession, there are other areas in tech where there’s actually a tailwind — the growth of artificial intelligence and open-source software among them. There’s also a lot more cloud action happening, with more data coming in. In that way, a trend of rightsizing makes sense as a natural evolution of the ...

These days, the cloud cost optimization landscape has emerged as an important topic for customers. It was a key area of focus during theCUBE’s coverage of today’s AWS Savings in the Cloud event. For Apptio Inc., commitment-based discounting is a “critical component” of that landscape. If the goals of optimization are to make sure that every dollar ...