We have never seen a time like this, where IT is being besieged on multiple fronts, according to Steven Kaplan, author of The ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders. On one side is the public cloud and on the [See the full post…]

It is important for developers to build up their own empathy in order to design APIs with a UX mindset. That makes APIs easier for other engineers to use more effectively, according to Kollivakkam Raghavan, Director of Engineering for Prism [See the full post…]

“In the early days, people had no idea what hyperconvergence was,” recalled Steven Poitras, principal solutions architect at enterprise software company Nutani. Hyperconverged (HCI) infrastructure combines compute, storage and networking in a single location, vastly simplifying data center operations that [See the full post…]

Today’s monolithic mainframe approach to computing will soon be shattered and dispersed because that’s the nature of computing, according to Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey. This animation brings to life a talk Pandey gave to technology analysts at .NEXT in Anaheim, [See the full post…]

With the average cost of a data breach for a company now at $3.8 million and the emergence of regulations like GDPR and the CCPA, businesses have more than customer distrust to contend with if their data is not [See the full post…]

“We’re reinventing how we do IT right now,” said Steve McDowell, senior tech analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. He reads signs from technology’s past and sees a future that is increasingly powered by software. What was once difficult, [See the full post…]

In what he calls one of the most volatile regions in the world, Matt Young is helping companies modernize their IT. In this segment, Nutanix senior vice president of sales for Asia-Pacific-Japan region describes how he deals with demanding managers [See the full post…]

Zach Hilliard always loved cars and started his career as a diesel mechanic. Today he’s senior director of site reliability engineering for Cyxtera Technologies, a Texas-based provider of data centers around the globe. He sees the Uberization of data centers, [See the full post…]

As a professional ballplayer, he became fascinated with the power of team chemistry. His next career in business showed him that team chemistry was confined to sports. “At my very first job I realized, ‘Oh, that’s not a sports thing…that’s [See the full post…]

With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT), IT departments are facing a significant shift as human demand for data is surpassed by machines. Machine-to-machine communications ­from robots, retail store sensors and other connected devices are forcing IT departments to [See the full post…]

Many say DevOps makes companies more agile and focused on business value. Gene Kim sees the practice helping developers and operations professionals work together faster while maintaining secure and reliable IT systems. In this interview, the co-author of The Phoenix [See the full post…]