With customers scattering data like marbles to different cloud and on-premise locations, its good to be the guy on the side selling coverall data protection. Well, venture capitalists think so — they just invested $80 million in Druva Inc.’s infrastructure-agnostic data protection as-a-service. “The more data gets decentralized or fragmented, the more centralized the data management has ...

VMware Inc. — long entrenched in hundreds of thousands of private data centers — is now getting its cloud legs. Its own secure public cloud platform vCloud Air basically flopped. Will its Amazon Web Services Inc. partnership shore up its future in cloud or accidentally hand-feed its customers to AWS? Despite the trend away from ...

The mountain of software tools and social platforms available to marketers haven’t budged conversion rates for most. E-Commerce conversion rates in the current year are 2.5 percent, according to Statista Inc. Not terrific, considering 70 percent of marketers say converting leads is their top priority, according to Hubspot Inc. Perhaps they’d do more effective digital marketing if they’d watch how consumers actually engage ...

At face value, the Software-Defined Wide Area Network is a packaged information technology solution for organizations with multiple branch locations. But a boost from the latest cloud technology is revealing SD-WAN’s hidden talents, and it may even attract new customers by accidentally solving the multicloud management snafu. With cloud, SD-WAN becomes more than just a network solution ...

Shortly after its founding in 2004, wireless network provider Xirrus Inc. saw that Wi-Fi use and demand were growing faster than the infrastructure to support it. It began developing technology to scale, provision and orchestrate Wi-Fi for large numbers of users. The company recently met its match in Riverbed Technology Inc., which saw Xirrus’ Local Area ...

Software-Defined Networking frees network administrators from constant tinkering with individual boxes. It allows admins to view and program the network from a central software consul. This new agility could elevate the network and its admins to a higher business and operational function, according to Joshua Dobies (pictured, left), vice president of product marketing at Riverbed Technology Inc. Dobies joined Vivek Ganti (pictured, ...

Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. have redefined application deployment for many businesses. In a matter of hours, developers can spin up applications that might have taken days or weeks in the past. If cloud can do this for apps, what can it do for networking? Riverbed Technology Inc.’s answer is its software-defined wide ...

After James Damore’s infamous memo criticizing Google Inc.’s diversity programs hit the public eye Aug. 5, the furor was palpable. Within days, Damore was fired, and his very public battle with the technology giant since then ignited a furious discussion of how and even whether the participation of women and other underrepresented groups in the tech ...

Serverless computing buzz has steadily grown in the last couple of years, now eclipsing even containers, according to some tech analysts. Based on cloud computing, it takes the infrastructure abstraction and application-focus of cloud even further. But what does “serverless” really mean? Is it more than a marketing label stickered on a bunch of different ...

Behemoths Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure might not have the entire cloud market cornered after all. Having tried large public clouds, some businesses find they lack crucial management oversight, according to Mike Franco (pictured, right), principal solution architect at Virtustream Inc. “Clients are saying, ‘That was good, but as we ...