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 ...

Over the past year, Dell Technologies Inc. has made incremental adjustments to its VxFlex hyperconverged-infrastructure portfolio. A number of these enhancements added new features as part of the firm’s PowerEdge server line. This week, Dell recognized what many of its customers had validated in past use of VxFlex. “We’re moving our VxFlex product to the ...

Why would the consulting arm of one of the largest technology companies in the world partner with one of the largest consulting companies in the world? The answer is that such a partnership makes sense when the combination of capabilities results in a differentiated offering that brings true value to the customer base for both. This ...

There was a time when many businesses invested in building and running in-house data centers. Not anymore. Oracle Consulting and Deloitte Consulting LLP formed a partnership — Elevate — in September to help businesses with a transition from data center to cloud that now seems inevitable. “We’re now at the point where large transformation at scale, of ...

Oracle Corp. built its business around running mission-critical uses of its technology, and the company’s revamped consulting program has a cloud strategy which is a direct reflection of that. As Oracle Consulting expands its cloud services, one focus has been on ensuring customer durability, maintaining the continuity of back-office operations while cultivating revenue opportunities as ...

Oracle Corp. is positioning itself with a trifecta in the enterprise computing world, offering infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service solutions to meet the needs of its large customer base. An example of how this plays out can be found in a simple online shipment order for one ...

Oracle Consulting has been undergoing its own transformation, from staff augmentation to offerings key to the business of its enterprise customers. Central to Oracle Consulting’s offering portfolio is the use of autonomous technology to understand data inside an organization and enable a cognitive platform to essentially teach itself. “This is probably the most exciting space that ...

When Oracle Corp. introduced its Generation 2 Cloud in 2018, the company went to great lengths to emphasize how the architecture was designed to support enterprise needs. The release was designed to address what top company officials saw as a previous generation of clouds that put customer data unnecessarily at risk through flawed security and failed ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced yesterday that it would launch a new business unit to extend cloud technologies into space. The business segment, which will be led by the former head of the Department of Defense’s Space Force, will focus on using AWS cloud services to process data from space operations. The latest news follows the introduction ...

There has been way too much lost in recent months: jobs, routine human interaction and, most importantly, lives. That has led one executive of Amazon Web Services Inc. to frame consequences of the global pandemic in terms of reassessing how governments handle technology as a critical solution for the recovery to come. In an opinion piece ...