Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure, from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. …
Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the booming global cloud market. …
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
Since launching GreenLake in 2018 and promising that all of its portfolio would be available as services by next year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been on a sprint to build up the capabilities of the platform. …
The cloud era started off with the belief that, eventually, enterprises would migrate all of their workloads to the public cloud — drawn by the promises of greater flexibility and agility, cost reductions, manageable OPEX payment models, and the ability to shift responsibility for management of IT environments to the cloud providers themselves. …
There is a growing number of vendors big and small going hard to the hoop to make processors for artificial intelligence workloads. …
VMware is a company that has always embraced change. As we have noted before, the company that started off roiling the datacenter with virtualization technology that initially changed the dynamics — from efficiency to flexibility to costs — of servers and eventually expanded to include storage appliance and enterprise networks, creating what it referred to as the software-defined datacenter (SDDC). …
Enterprises and tech vendors alike for the past few years have been talking about the growing importance of the edge in the increasingly distributed IT environment. …
Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving it deep expertise in the non-volatile flash memory space at a time when enterprises were looking for expanded storage options in the wake of the rise of the cloud and the edge. …
Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in the IT industry, fueled by the massive growth in the data being generated and the increasing need in HPC and mainstream enterprises for capabilities ranging from analytics and automation. …
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