At first glance, the recent announcement by IBM of updates for its Spectrum Storage portfolio appear to follow a traditional path for the tech giant. A partnership here, a performance increase there, an enhanced data recovery solution on top … pretty much what the enterprise world has come to expect. Yet, a closer look at ...

There is a key reason that companies are increasingly turning to enterprise solutions such as Couchbase Inc. for a combined relational and NoSQL database model. It’s because data is on the move. “Whether you are in a subway, plane or ship, the data needs to come to you and be available,” said Ravi Mayuram (pictured), ...

There may be some other companies with product usage, sales numbers and the global footprint of PepsiCo Inc., but it won’t take long to call the roll. The food and beverage giant’s products are enjoyed by consumers over 1 billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. That takes ...

Before most people have their second cup of coffee in the morning, they have probably already accessed tens if not hundreds of applications. From mobile phones to laptops, tablets, watches and even the connected car, today’s world is app-driven. To work properly, apps must draw from structured and unstructured data that requires a robust database ...

An Italian consortium is participating in an ambitious project to create the world’s most detailed model of the human brain, and it has already made several scientific breakthroughs through the use of high-performance computing. The initiative is being led by Cineca, the largest Italian computing center and one of the most important worldwide. Its work ...

In collaboration with VMware Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. has announced a new infrastructure-as-a-service offering that allows organizations to deploy preconfigured cloud instances at the edge, in datacenters, or in colocation facilities. The new offering – APEX Cloud Services with VMware Cloud – provides a cloud operating model engineered to match or exceed the performance, predictive ...

It is no secret that Nvidia Corp. has spent years building an extensive practice in artificial intelligence. One press release described the company’s work in the field as a “leading AI computing platform.” In partnership with VMware Inc., Nvidia has leveraged the vSphere cloud virtualization platform to deploy its AI Enterprise software suite in conjunction ...

The maxim in the security world that “one cannot protect what one cannot see” also applies to some of the tools that actually provide visual access. How much can administrators in a security operations center really see or understand what is happening when they are staring at multiple consoles for hours at a time? “When ...

The rapid migration of microservices and containerized workloads to the cloud demands an ability to have a full view of how the pieces work together at any given point in the process. The solution is observability, an area in which Splunk Inc.’s Spiros Xanthos (pictured) is very familiar. Xanthos, who quite appropriately wears a T-shirt with the ...

In a blog announcement posted last week by Chris Saul, program director of product marketing at IBM’s Spectrum Storage portfolio, the company unveiled a number of enhancements designed to deploy solutions and resilience for the hybrid cloud. The announcements covered a lot of ground, including new capabilities for Spectrum Virtualize, boosting AIOps for IBM’s FlashSystem, enhancements ...