The big question on attendees’ minds at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas this week is: Can the company compete with Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc. and the like without its own bona fide public cloud? If Michael Dell (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies Inc., is in a panic over this, he concealed ...

Last year Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. shook hands on the biggest technology merger ever. This might appear a boon to both if not for the shoddy track record of such deals, not to mention the wobbly footing of proprietary hardware companies squeezed by growing cloud and open-source providers. John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right) and Paul Gillin ...

Data is an unexciting commodity that can yield very exciting results if exploited across an organization. But how can companies get all hands on deck with few people interested? “Data is not the most sexy topic for a lot of executives in our organization,” said Kristen O’Hara (pictured, right), chief marketing officer of global media at Time ...

OpenStack’s business prospects may be less than stellar, but the open-source infrastructure project’s history has so many twists, one might assume its fortunes could turn yet again. “When this initiative first launched, it was the rocket scientists of NASA and RackSpace down in Texas putting this together,” said Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, right), co-host of theCUBE, ...

The average person generates almost 1.5 gigabytes of data per day, already glutting data centers. What miracle is going to make this, plus the daily 4,000 gigabytes of data self-driving cars will produce, manageable (let alone profitable)? “Everyone is not going to be a data scientist, and everyone’s not going to be able to afford one ...

Enterprises choking on inbound data that’s too expensive to store and too valuable to throw out need relief. But they must look outside the box for it, according to Steve Pawlowski (pictured, right), vice president of advanced computing solutions at Micron Technology Inc. During the Micron Summit in New York, Pawlowski and Tom Eby (pictured, left), vice president of ...

NVMe over Fabric (NVMeF) is an advanced storage technology that, unfortunately, works optimally in small doses. Or it did until now, according to James Meeker (pictured, left), director of enterprise solutions at Micron Technology Inc., and Eric Endebrock (pictured, right), Micron’s vice president of storage marketing. Meeker and Endebrock discussed NVMeF and the future of storage with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) ...

In a time when companies are packaging others’ open-source code into nebulous services, it’s refreshing (or nostalgic) to see a company start from scratch with a product it test drove and perfected itself. Micron Technology Inc. is, first and foremost, a manufacturing company, committed to making such products, mainly semiconductors, according to Trevor Schulze (pictured, right), chief information ...

Open source is more than technology. It’s a mentality and a set of principles that may, in fact, be applied to realms outside of technology. Open-source technology and philosophy together may be a potent combo for attacking real-world issues, as this year’s Red Hat’s Women in Open Source Award winners suggest. “It’s a way of doing ...

In the words of Red Hat Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst, “Selling free is hard,” but the company’s open-source packages are selling indeed. Last year, Red Hat raked in $2.4 billion in revenue, and to top that off, Whitehurst publicly stated a goal of $5 billion within five years. “Red Hat seems ...