As enterprises continue to wrestle with multicloud, hybrid cloud, and hyperconverged environment strategies, the actual execution can become much more complex than originally intended — unless they have truly thought through the implications of creating hybrid environments. Even more complexity usually results. Nutanix Inc, has worked hard to offer HCI solutions that give simplicity back ...

If most technology companies are honest, predicting the future of cloud is challenging. It’s a complex, evolving industry, and it’s hard to know if cloud solutions will take 80% or 30% of the market in the next five years. Winslow Technology LLC, an information technology solutions and consulting service, has countless conversations with enterprise customers ...

Satellites are used within a variety of private industries — like weather, communications and media — but they take an enormous amount of money, contracts with ground station providers and data management capabilities. In the past, this has made the satellite industry limited only to those who can manage all of those moving parts and ...

5G, Wi-Fi6 and automation are hot topics as the technology industry continues to wrestle with the demands for larger bandwidths. And while some might not believe in the importance of more bandwidth, Gordon Thomson (pictured, left), vice president of global sales, enterprise networking, at Cisco Systems Inc., and Michael Beesley (pictured, right), chief technology officer of service provider ...

As automation gains interest throughout the enterprise, it’s changing the way businesses operate their computing infrastructures, freeing up time to focus technology resources on new ways to grow. This automated “gift of time,” along with other advancements such as multicloud solutions and 5G networks, ensure faster and faster growth — if a company can truly get on board. So what ...

The digital transformation has been the buzzword of the past five years, but as enterprises try to implement enormous technological initiatives around big data and the cloud, it takes a lot of dialogue to define specific digital innovation needs — especially data storage. While storage used to become highly fragmented — tier-one storage, midrange storage, object storage, etc. ...

Midrange storage systems remain a significant part of every enterprise computing strategy, especially in current markets driven by digital data assets. So even while software was eating the world, hardware must manage to keep up. Today’s customer expects a storage appliance to do more than just house data. “Especially in the midrange, our customers expect the ...

As digital transformation continues to disrupt enterprise operations, a parallel shift is happening in the chief information officer role. Today’s rapid evolution of technology services means CIOs too must be agile and react in real-time. As both witness and recipient of  this evolving landscape, the role of the CIO now doubles as evangelist for change. “[There are] completely different expectations,” Graeme Thompson (pictured), ...

It’s been five busy years in the tech industry since the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system was founded, earning crucial contributions from developers to quickly become a de facto standard across all major cloud platform providers. Sharing their perspectives on Kubernetes’ wildly successful ecosystem are some of its earliest contributors, there from the very beginning of the ...

Considered by many to be the sage and the historian of the technology industry, Bruce Chizen (pictured), board member and special advisor at Informatica LLC, has an impressive decades-long career. He has worked at Microsoft and Apple Computer, been the chief executive officer of Adobe Inc., and sits on the board of many high-ranking technology companies — ...