Customers are demanding more and more technologies be delivered as a service. It’s not just infrastructure commodities like storage and compute; it’s also well-honed solutions like data protection. VMware Inc. and Dell EMC are working to deliver data protection as a service to cloud providers themselves, who in turn deliver it to their customers. At ...

Add Infinidat Inc. to the collection of storage companies pivoting toward data protection. Rather than viewing their storage legacy as baggage, the company says it provides a wrought iron foundation for its end-to-end data backup and protection services. Infinidat designed its architecture for mixed flash and non-flash workloads (with speeds actually beating all-flash) from the ...

What’s data backup and protection have to do with data availability? Infrastructure planning? Developer operations? Everything now that data is becoming central to the whole information technology operation. So companies had better start packaging backup and protection into early-stage planning for all of those things, according to Stefan Renner (pictured, right), technical director of global alliances at Veeam ...

If a company’s in the Fortune 100 and its information technology budget has a whole bunch of zeroes, then their cloud options are pretty much endless. If, however, it is a mid-market business with a slight IT staff and modest budget, an all-in push to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Cloud might not be in ...

Many companies are aware that the data they own could return dividends if they’d learn to churn insights from it. But many aren’t used to thinking of data as a commodity that requires economical storing, handling, slicing and dicing. Choosing smart technology for storing and backing up data can save a lot of space and ...

Loads of vendors see the enterprise train chugging toward multicloud in all its mismatched glory. Naturally, they want to sell customers the panacea that fits all those clouds onto a single pane of glass. It’s a lot harder then it sounds. In the end, their efforts may be hopelessly superficial. To compete in multicloud, they ...

What’s the state of technology around internet of things-connected devices? Some say the jumble of piece parts, complexity, and lack of end-to-end solutions can best be defined as an “absolute disaster.” Maybe a company that has put in some work lately smoothing hybrid cloud complexity can spread some of that grease to the edge. Maybe that company ...

Another VMworld has come and gone, with almost 100 exclusive interviews on theCUBE for viewers and readers to nosh through. Each year, VMware serves as a powwow for SiliconANGLE to take stock of itself and float new ideas about where its media organization will go next. This year, theCUBE introduced some especially groundbreaking new content and ...

Staying afloat as a storage provider these days requires a creative, out-of-the box (literally) approach. A storage array needs the ability to stretch out of its confines into the public cloud, as well as provide high value-add data-management and analytics capabilities. Storage legacy NetApp Inc. is pivoting its entire business model in this direction, and Dell ...

Changes in cloud-connected computing infrastructure are presenting hackers with new inroads to attack organizations. Staying informed about new vulnerabilities is challenging, as is implementing strong, cost-effective defenses. How does an information technology organization choose among new security postures and vendor products and services? “It”s going to sound weird coming from a security guy, but I ...