Cloud is a convenient improvement over hardware for customers as well software and service partners — well, mostly. For the latter, cloud presents some tricky competitive issues due to cloud providers’ ability to deliver services themselves. Veritas Technologies LLC came to realize this over the past year as it worked to integrate with major cloud providers. ...

Automation and machine learning are great technologies for Internet of Things and data applications. They’re also handy tools for cyber attackers to infiltrate those applications. “Threats are becoming more sophisticated to try to obfuscate into data flows and to try to remain silent on networks,” said Derek Manky (pictured), global security strategist at Fortinet Inc. Unlike ...

Data protection’s new incarnation incorporates both on-premises data centers and virtualized cloud environments with traditional backup methods and current data management innovations. Are backup legacies or data availability startups better-equipped to streamline all of them together? “We’re going from reactive recovery to proactive, assured productivity,” said Jason Buffington (pictured), principal analyst, data protection, at The Enterprise Strategy ...

Which technology holds the key to unlock big data’s profit potential? Veritas Technologies LLC believes that its backup legacy and new machine learning tools may be the winning combo. “We have all this data that’s essentially sitting inactive,” said David Noy (pictured), vice president of product management at Veritas Technologies. But the huge corpus of data that ...

While some technology companies hope that outside forces will narrow the gender gap over time, others believe they can do it for themselves with hard numbers and stiff deadlines. Women hold 25 percent of computing jobs, according to the National Center for Women & Technology. Despite this obvious gender gap, 58 percent of men and 46 ...

Veritas Technologies LLC once blazoned the phrase no hardware agenda on billboards and T-shirts to promote its software-only storage over competitors like EMC. Years later, the company is again touting its standalone software status — this time in data management. “No hardware agenda is evolving to no cloud agenda,” said Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...

Veritas Technologies LLC’s rebranding as a multicloud data management platform has the company darting in many directions. This week’s Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas is ridden with announcements from a new cloud deduplication engine to a partnership with Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Today, Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left) and Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, right), co-hosts of ...

First converged infrastructure simplified data centers with server-storage-network sandwich appliances. Then hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, commodified the hardware and slapped differentiating software-defined storage on top. Now, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is combining elements of both with composable infrastructure. “We innovated around the best of converged and hyperconveged and put them together into a new category ...

It’s not rocket science figuring out what buzzwords to toss around at a tech conference these days. Multicloud and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) are on the list, and they both popped up at the Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas this week. But is Veritas Technologies LLC putting any weight behind them? Dave Vellante (@dvellante) ...

A single platform for producing real value from data isn’t just one more technology product to throw on the heap. It finally sweeps together the heap, marking the true beginning of the Information Age, according to Bill Coleman (pictured), chief executive officer of Veritas Technologies LLC. “We’ve called this the Information Age for 50 years. But ...