David Needle

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Aiming to simplify and expand the utility of its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offering, Nutanix kicked off its annual .NEXT conference here on May 8 by announcing several new features. The company also previewed a version that customers will be able to run on Amazon Web Services, essentially moving infrastructure to Amazon’s cloud as part […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.––Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the HP that produces enterprise IT systems but not printers, laptops or workstations, showed off its new headquarters here in the heart of Silicon Valley on April 30. The event included a media tour of its wide-ranging research facilities. Among other projects, the tech giant is looking to vastly improve data […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Enterprise collaboration network provider Slack served up a bunch of new features at its Frontiers conference here on April 24. The event kicked off with tennis star Serena Williams in an on-stage conversation with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. Some of the features are available now, while others are due out this summer. Slack announced […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Even as cloud applications grow in popularity, it can be a pain for IT to manage and secure both cloud and more traditional on-premises applications. Google’s answer is Anthos, a hybrid cloud platform available now that lets companies run all their applications, unmodified, in either Google Cloud or on their existing on-premises data center. […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The start of Google’s annual Google Cloud Next conference (April 9-11) here at Moscone Center includes several news announcements by the search giant. Heading the list is a partnership announcement with seven leading open-source cloud services providers, but this is more than an agreement to interoperate and work together. The partnership lets customers use […]

PHOENIX—Intel has introduced a bevy of products aimed at data center customers, including 2nd-Generation Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Optane DC memory and storage solutions, and software and platform technologies it says are optimized to help companies get more value from their data. Use cases range from cloud computing and network infrastructure to intelligent edge applications. […]

PHOENIX—Intel continues to bet big on new technologies, specifically tech startups funded by its venture capital arm, Intel Capital. On April 1 at its annual Intel Capital Global Summit conference here, the company announced that it’s invested $117 million in 14 tech startups. Since its founding in 1991, Intel Capital has invested $12.4 billion in […]

LAS VEGAS–Adobe announced a series of product updates and partnerships March 26 at its annual Adobe Summit. Headlining the announcements is the global release of Adobe Experience Platform (an update to what was earlier called Adobe Cloud Platform). Partnerships with Microsoft, LinkedIn and ServiceNow were also announced that are all aimed at improving the personalization […]

Previewed at its Frontiers conference last September, Slack says Enterprise Key Management (EKM) is now available. EKM gives Slack’s Enterprise Grid customers better control over sensitive data in messages, files and comments. Slack, best known for its messaging and collaboration features, said EKM will let large organizations connect and manage all of their Slack channels […]

Moving aggressively in the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) space, LogMeIn has rebranded its popular GoToMeeting online meeting service as GoTo and on March 13 introduced GoToConnect and a new conference room solution, GoToRoom. “Traditionally, the talk has been about individual products, an audio tool, a video tool and so on. The question companies are […]