At OpenStack Summit in Boston last May, some speculated that the event might be the last gasp for the open-source platform for cloud computing and infrastructure as a service. Granted, OpenStack was one of the less hyped open-source projects of the past year. But renewed community and end-user interest is breathing fresh life into the platform, ...

Data protection is hot again, making this the perfect time for data management and backup company Veritas Technologies LLC to rebirth itself. The company was relatively quiet for the past few years, but it’s back now honking a message of data value for multicloud. At today’s keynote during the Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas, speakers were ...

Hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI — with its commodity hardware packaged with software-defined storage — departs radically from traditional siloed data center architectures. Vendors banging on about how revolutionary and disruptive HCI is may not realize that that is precisely the problem for some holdouts. “When you introduce HCI to a large enterprise, you’re changing the ...

Private cloud environments are gaining new powers thanks to hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, and public-cloud compatibility. These infusions are making private clouds easier to manage and giving them the agility and elasticity of public cloud, according to Yanbing Li (pictured, right), senior vice president and general manager of storage and availability at VMware Inc. “Private cloud ...

Change is good, but only in measured doses and for well-defined goals. At least, in the world of enterprise storage arrays where the latest is rarely the greatest, according to Randy Arseneau (pictured, left), chief marketing officer of Infinidat Inc. “We never shy away from the concept of general purpose storage. That became very unfashionable about five ...

Can an academic approach to analytics predict the best efficiencies for developer operations? Fact: Seventy-one percent of businesses have adopted some form of DevOps to streamline software development and deployment, according to VersionOne Inc.’s 2017 “State of Agile Report.” The most popular DevOps tool is container technology from Docker Inc., according to a separate report from ...

Multicloud — is it the logical evolution of infrastructure or a barely-feasible fantasy? In theory, when multiple clouds link and interoperate with each other, the resulting mesh is “multicloud.” How is this hybridized monster managed? A motley mix of vendors — from hyperconverged infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. to specialized software providers — have attempted an answer. MarketsandMarkets Research Ltd. ...

Automation not only cuts costs by abstracting away undifferentiated labor, it’s also grease on the wheels that keep developer operations rolling along in the technology sector. Elements stuck in manual mode can cause hiccups. That’s why information technology customers are “looking for the operating system to be a little more automate-able,” according to Matt Micene (pictured), senior evangelist, ...

Kubernetes — a hot orchestration management platform for containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) — typically gets lots of hurrahs at developer conferences. Then a small voice in the crowd asks, Have you guys actually tried using this thing?  Kubernetes’ complexity is forgivable once users realize that it’s still under construction. “We [the Cloud ...

The open-source community used to thrive on rebellion against profitable proprietary corporations like Microsoft Corp. and others. All have since reconciled, and are now joining forces to fight common enemies holding back agile development. “Open-source doesn’t have that enemy anymore. It’s the standard,” said John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. “So the ...