VMware Inc. is making Dell Technologies Inc. fat and happy. The acquisition is paying off generously, generating 10 percent of Dell’s revenue and more than 50 percent of its free cash flow. But how long can Dell ride the gravy train, especially with some question marks remaining in VMware’s cloud journey? Without a doubt, founder and Chief ...

Five years as a private company allowed Dell Technologies Inc. to scuba dive deep into questions about its future direction. It spent the time and considerable funds on research and development in hybrid computing infrastructure. Now, coming up for air and going public, it’s advocating for the edge-everywhere over the center-of-the-universe-cloud school of thought. “I think ...

VMware Inc. is doing a lot of cloud-on-premises cross-pollination these days. Its research and development toils in NSX virtualized networking and an software-defined wide area network acquisition are giving the company steam to iron out the kinks of running workloads across hybrid environments. “People just want that cloud experience, whether they do it at the edge ...

Dell Technologies Inc. brought a big, fat cash cow back to the farm when it acquired VMware Inc. Despite VMware’s health in sheer revenue, some have muttered that it’s 2018, and the virtualization legacy needs to up its cloud-first game already. In response, the company is bringing new networking research and development out of hibernation and ...

Cloud infrastructure and services are more popular than ever — but are they any easier to get a handle on? The Amazon Web Services Inc. Marketplace now has more than 4,000 listings for customers to sift through. And let’s not get started on managing workloads across multiple clouds. Can anyone reign all this complexity with a human-friendly ...

Companies take one look at some software applications and decide to keep them on-premises because of legacy baggage, security or what-have-you. Then, there are brand new apps they opt to build the cloud-native way thanks to modern microservices. But often, apps aren’t so easily sussed out; they might require a seasoned hand to help them pick ...

What is Web 3.0? Ask the blockchain folks, and they might say it’s the internet of value. Others say it’s the semantic web, or the internet of intelligence, or the Metaverse of virtual and augmented reality. A comprehensive yet simple answer might determine it’s all of those things and more; bringing Web 3.0 into being requires a new ...

What’s the takeaway from a week in which cryptocurrency prices crashed to alarming lows and a blockchain conference attracted a slew of tech industry stars (and Larry King)? Perhaps it’s that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and fidgety market analysts are too myopic to see blockchain and crypto’s unfolding grand plan. There were some ...

Anyone who still thinks blockchain’s encrypted ledger technology is just an account book for cryptocurrencies is in for a squirt of high-octane disruptive diesel in the eye. Its potential to decentralize businesses and organizations could be the biggest technology wave to crash since cloud computing infrastructure. Erasing the middleman from all kinds of transactions could create a ...

The niche technology once developed to boost PC gaming is all grown up. Specialized graphics processing units are gaining popularity in enterprise-grade computing for their ability to aid in artificial intelligence, thanks to their parallel processing muscle. Some say that as the trend barrels forward, GPUs will essentially become the new central processing units in data centers of enterprises and ...