Do those companies that divide workloads between physical data centers and the cloud need backup systems tailored for each? Sticking with blanket product makes life simpler for the information technology department and by itself can improve recovery times, according to Christopher VanAsselberg (pictured, right), manager of server operations at Hologic Inc. In the past, Hologic had trouble settling on ...

Data backup and disaster recovery methods are seemingly stuck in a time warp. The problems of 20 years ago are still present and pressing, according to Dave Russell (pictured), vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Inc. While underlying infrastructure has come and gone, many backup and DR pain points have stubbornly remained, he pointed out. They ...

After nine years of selling backup and recovery solutions to small and mid-size businesses, Veeam Software Inc. now boasts 45,000 channel partners and is setting sights on large enterprises. The company intends to maintain intimate partner relationships as it moves up the chain, according to Kevin Rooney (pictured), vice president of channel sales at Veeam Software. ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shelled out more than $1 billion to buy Nimble Storage Inc., it was not simply padding out its flash portfolio, according to Gavin Cohen (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Nimble Storage. “The thing that sets us apart more than anything from not just the storage startups, but from all ...

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is not exactly top-trending news for tech analysts at the moment, according to Calvin Hsu (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Citrix Systems Inc. The virtualization technology hosts desktop operating systems on central servers within data centers. After generating a thick flurry of hype several years ago, many industry experts have pronounced ...

VMware Inc. customers have long favored Veeam Software Inc.’s backup and recovery services tailor-made for virtual machines. But since goliaths Dell Technologies and Amazon Web Services Inc. have joined with VMware, some wonder if they will crowd Veeam out. “We have a very good relationship with VMware,” said John Metzger (pictured), vice president of product marketing ...

The complexity of hybrid infrastructure gets devilish at the application layer where the needs of traditional bare-metal and cloud-native apps often clash. “The network brings this together,” according to Frank Palumbo (pictured, right), senior vice president at Cisco Systems Inc. Applications must be able to move about the network free of infrastructure conflicts, Palumbo stated. Palumbo joined Andy ...

A single Internet of Things-connected device is nice, but two or three put together are better. That is, the data each device collects yields smarter insights when analyzed together. But crunching many converged data streams at once can strain ordinary data centers’ compute power. May research from Cisco Systems Inc. breaks down the struggle in numbers: 73 ...

Developers at Google Inc. are rethinking the standard client-server model in rendering applications. Apps might better serve individual web browsers or entities like Facebook Inc. or Twitter Inc. depending on which side they fall, according to Stephen Fluin (pictured), developer advocate at Google. “There’s a lot of consumers of content that we don’t necessarily think about ...

IBM Corp.’s Emerging Technology Group in the United Kingdom needed a way to speed churn proofs of concept for clients. The resulting development platform, Node-RED, hides complexity so well, even code-illiterates can use it, according to Nick O’Leary (pictured), Watson Internet of Things developer advocate at IBM. “It allows people to start playing with the rich capabilities of the ...