When the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement approximately one year ago, VMware Inc. Chief Executive Office Pat Gelsinger issued a message to his employees that reiterated his company’s commitment to sustainability. That commitment includes achieving carbon neutral emissions for its operations by 2020 and driving the use of 100-percent renewable energy. The company’s interest ...

As businesses increasingly rely on data to make critical decisions, the accuracy of that information becomes vitally important. Yet, the process for verification has been haphazard at best. Alation Inc., a company specializing is collaborative data cataloging, has introduced TrustCheck, a new tool that will visually put a stamp of approval on trustworthy sources or ...

When Cohesity Inc. announced last month that it had received a $250 million investment from SoftBank Corp.’s Vision Fund, the news was noteworthy for two reasons. It was the largest investment in a U.S. enterprise startup in nearly two years, and it was only the second time SoftBank had chosen to invest in the data ...

The “e” stands for “enterprise” at HPE, but it’s rapidly coming to mean “edge” as well. After outlining the company’s edge-centric, data-driven hybrid cloud strategy at its June conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Antonio Neri (pictured) added more details to the future focus today, some five months after he took over the top ...

Over the past two years, Amazon Web Services Inc. has not been shy about opening new infrastructure around the world. The cloud computing giant launched regions in Korea, India and Canada in 2016. The following year saw AWS expansion to Hong Kong, France, Sweden and China. Missing from this picture was a key part of ...

NetApp Inc. has made a series of announcements this year designed to provide additional options for customers looking to modernize data centers for the hybrid cloud. The moves included continued integration with SAP’s HANA solution and leveraged NetApp’s All-Flash FAS enterprise class storage and its Cloud Volumes service for analytics and database migration. “At the ...

Crooks are getting smarter at covering their cyber tracks. The FortiGuard Labs’ Q1 2018 “Threat Landscape Report” sheds new light on the growth of designer malware, tools used by cybercriminals to infect systems in ways that are difficult to detect and harder to remove. “Cybercriminals are evolving their attack methodologies to be able to increase their ...

It seems like a safe and simple proposition. A workload or task can be moved from one compute environment to another, often from an on-premises data center to the cloud. Yet, this process, known as “lift and shift,” can actually create unforeseen issues, according to the top executive of CloudGenera Inc., a cloud decision engine that ...

Anyone interested in connecting over social media with Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer, computer scientist and consultant for a number of well-known films, is out of luck. He’s not on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Reddit for one simple reason: He doesn’t want to be manipulated. Lanier (pictured) is so concerned about the subject of commercial ...

Increasing complexity in the information technology world is leading companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. to focus its efforts on moving customers to a simpler place. Automation, artificial intelligence, and multicloud management tools are key elements in HPE’s approach to handling big data demands. “You’ve got to make a lot of decisions to be ...