Scot Petersen

NEW YORK—IBM presented its latest vision for the cloud today, announcing several new data management products as officials argued that data, not infrastructure, is what the cloud is all about. First, IBM announced availability of new tools on the Watson Data Platform—Data Catalog and Data Refinery—and general availability of a third tool, the Analytics Engine. […]

NEW YORK—Cisco and AppDynamics made a big splash in January when the two agreed to Cisco’s $3.7 billion acquisition literally on the eve of AppDynamics’ highly anticipated initial public offering. Since then, AppDynamics has been meeting with customers and explaining what Cisco will bring to App Dynamics. But more important is what AppDynamics will bring […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A few weeks before Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference kicked off, Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison promised news about a revolutionary “Autonomous Database.” He did not disappoint. Ellison spent two hours on the first night of the conference here on Oct 3, touting Oracle 18c, a new version of the company’s database that “manages itself, […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Until recently, hybrid cloud computing has been more myth than reality, an idea promoted by tech vendors threatened by Amazon Web Services. Users only had to create a private cloud (i.e., in an on premises data center) internally and use AWS or another public cloud service and voila—they have a hybrid cloud. But in […]

NEW YORK—Application performance monitoring may not be as cool a buzzword as Kubernetes, but APM is just as important for companies making the move to DevOps and cloud-native development. New Relic, the leader in Software-as-a-Service APM, today outlined several products that deepen the integration of its monitoring tools into Web and mobile applications that make […]

LAS VEGAS—Since it was founded in 1998, VMware has essentially enabled security of virtual machines and applications from the outside-in, mostly by relying on third-party security vendors. That has changed. Since it bought Nicira in 2012 and productized the fruits of that acquisition—NSX network virtualization software—VMware has had a security story to tell. NSX’s micro-segmentation […]

NEW YORK–For Amazon Web Services customers, the regional AWS Summits that take place around the world every year are a good place to get a snack of AWS cloud services news before the big meal at November’s annual Re:Invent conference. This week at AWS Summit New York, Amazon treated about 20,000 attendees with several news […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—There is a lot of agreement over the latest storage technologies that will drive adoption of flash in the enterprise. At the Flash Memory Summit here this week, every major vendor made an announcement based around non-volatile memory express (NVMe) or NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeF). These protocols will enable flash storage arrays to […]

LAS VEGAS—Even as artificial intelligence is having a bigger role in stopping malware and other cyber-threats, attackers are finding ways to get around it and even using AI as a way to enhance their own attack strategies. “Can we break machine learning? The answer is, yes we can,” said Hyrum Anderson, Principal Data Scientist for […]

NEW YORK—The artificial intelligence metaphors were flying this week at Inforum 2017, ERP vendor Infor’s annual user conference. “AI is the new steam engine, the new electricity, and it will transform everything,” said Infor President Duncan Angove. “AI is the new UI.” Infor’s “Coleman” artificial intelligence platform, unveiled here, was named in honor of pioneering […]