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Dell set to grow through channel partners, focused branding, says CMO
Dell’s privatization in 2013 and $67 billion merger with EMC has been a four-year epic, running longer than many television series. The newly branded company that emerged — Dell Technologies Inc. — now stores more than half of the mission-critical data in the world, according to Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell. And the company has ...
How this Canadian university developed its own private cloud, shared it with others
The data explosion hit the University of British Columbia hard a few years ago, because provincial law required that personal information in the custody of a public institution had to be stored and accessed only in Canada. So the school’s information technology department developed its own private cloud to handle the load. While that may ...
The security revolution: Is protecting critical infrastructure all talk and no action?
Through the first half of this year, the number of U.S. data breaches reached a record 791, which is 29 percent higher than a year ago. And a survey of leading security experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, last month found that 60 percent believed there will be a successful attack on ...
With a third of Veeam’s customers, NetApp sees gold in data management
NetApp Inc. is moving more into the enterprise business, and it is leveraging a strong partnership with Veeam Software Inc. to accomplish that. Both companies believe that as enterprise customers digitally transform their businesses, they will need the flexibility to manage and move data across on premise, public cloud or private cloud platforms. “Where NetApp ...
Bank sees enhanced data recovery, blockchain adoption in financial world
The banking industry has been buffeted by the winds of change as international regulation and increasing cyberattacks are forcing financial institutions to ensure they have the strongest possible security controls and backups for critical data. This has forced data center managers to pay closer attention to making sure they have the right data recovery tools ...
As network security becomes ‘irrelevant,’ here’s how Zscaler guards the cloud
During a major computer security conference two years ago, Zscaler set up a booth on the tradeshow floor and spent the week destroying various security devices made by other companies with a large hammer. The point did not go unnoticed. As business moved to the cloud, the need for appliances to guard the network was ...
Distributed data challenge: Unifi develops tools to democratize data
The growth of big data has led many organizations to store petabytes of valuable information in a centralized repository, more out of necessity than by design. But the value of a central data lake is increasingly being questioned, as end-users demand access to key datasets for running distributed applications. That’s why companies such as Unifi ...
Twitter uses Node.js to slim down and speed up its mobile web app
Many years ago, a beverage company advertised its latest low-calorie product by proclaiming that “it tastes great and is less filling.” Now Twitter has borrowed a page from that script with the release of Twitter Lite, a Progressive Web App that could be described as one that “launches faster and takes less space.” Twitter Lite ...
Why is this GitHub desktop, app-building framework so popular?
A GitHub framework to build desktop applications with Web technology and distribute it across three platforms automatically has become a global phenomenon, according to the project’s manager. And he’s officially lost track of the number of new applications being published. “I’ve never been in this situation before where something that I’m working on has been ...
Microsoft project manager sees good fit for Node.js in Azure
Microsoft’s recent announcement of Azure Container Instances, a new service designed to run software containers in the cloud more easily, is yet another example of how the company is interested in attracting Node.js developers to join the party. “We want to make it a much easier for developers to move on from their existing paradigms ...
