Scot Petersen

NEW YORK—As traditional enterprise technology leaders Cisco and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise give up trying to compete with Amazon Web Services in the public cloud, at least one relatively smaller player is doubling down on its efforts. The budding success that DigitalOcean, the New York City-based cloud provider, is having is due to the fact that, unlike […]

Amid the uncertainty of the Dell and EMC merger this fall and what it means for customers, there’s one for whom things are working out quite nicely. Revionics, a producer of price optimization software in Austin, Texas, turned to Dell partner Nexenta to lower its storage costs and gain more flexibility in the management of […]

LAS VEGAS—The annual Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure and Operations Management Conference kicked off here today, offering attendees advice on how to deal with the myriad changes, challenges and choices they have to deal with today, from budgets to business outcomes. Dave Russell, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, and Robert Naegle, a Gartner Research vice […]

LAS VEGAS—Amazon Web Services this week showed once again just how much farther ahead of the pack it is in cloud computing and how high it is setting the bar for the future—not just for cloud computing, but all of IT. At the company’s re:Invent conference here, AWS CEO Andy Jassy and CTO Werner Vogels […]

LAS VEGAS—Amazon Web Services kicked off its 2016 Re:Invent conference with its annual Global Partner Summit here at the Venetian, touting several new and expanded programs for vendors looking to sell software, solutions or services around the AWS cloud. “Topping the news is an integrated partner program built around VMware and AWS, an extension of […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The EMC takeover of Dell is now complete, or so it seemed at the first combined Dell EMC World show. Despite the exuberant presence of Michael Dell, it wasn’t quite clear whose show this was. It was Dell World in Austin, but it had all the trappings of EMC World in Las Vegas. Call […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle has been accused of being late to the party when it comes to cloud computing—almost 10 years too late—but now the company is moving like Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt rounding the turn in the 200-meter sprint. The Silicon Valley stalwart and its irrepressible Executive Chairman Larry Ellison are as confident and brash […]

LAS VEGAS—The concept of internet time—where everything seems to happen much faster than the normal pace of life—may or may not be a myth, but it is a double-edged sword for VMware. Here at the annual VMworld conference, the virtualization pioneer is working fast to make VMware viable in a cloud-native world—but maybe not at […]

NEW YORK—Amazon Web Services is showing it has not run out of ways to improve or expand the AWS cloud, especially for application developers. At the company’s New York City Summit here Aug. 11 at a packed Javits Center, AWS CTO Werner Vogels discussed several developer initiatives based on its contention that the cloud’s economic […]

LAS VEGAS—There was plenty of news last week during Black Hat USA about new cyber-threats, vulnerabilities and exploits. The good news is that security technologies are more advanced than ever and researchers are getting better at spotting hacks and malware. The bad news is that most threats are preventable by following “Security 101” practices that […]

NEW YORK—Infor is the big Enterprise Resource Planning application company you may not have heard of, and it likes it that way. Like Avis, the No. 2 car renter to Hertz in the “We Try Harder” era, Infor is happy to tell everyone that despite trailing SAP and Oracle in business software revenue by a […]

LAS VEGAS—This year’s Discover 2016 conference (June 7-9) got a lot more interesting as a result of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s announcement last month of a deal to spin out its Enterprise Services division to Computer Sciences Corp., creating a new services company. The deal cut the size of HPE by about another third, after its […]