Pedro Hernandez

Aparavi, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based storage software startup, announced the soft launch of its eponymous cloud-enabled long- data retention platform. Aparavi, from the Latin word apparare, means to prepare and equip. It’s a fitting name for a company whose aim is to equip mid-market firms for long-term and cost-efficient data retention in the cloud era. […]

OpenIO, an object storage and serverless computing startup based in France, announced today that it had raised $5 million in a round of financing headed by Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures and Nord France Amorçage. The company, which has offices San Francisco, Tokyo and the French cities of Lille and Paris, produces open source object storage […]

The cloud computing market may be firing on all cylinders, but not all enterprises are reaping the rewards. Nutanix today released the results of a new survey of 400 European IT leaders conducted by Quocirca, suggesting a significant disconnect between the cloud’s explosive growth and the value businesses are deriving from it. Hailing from Germany, […]

Businesses appear ready to say goodbye to their trusty, yet aging Windows 7 PCs, spelling good news for vendors. The PC market will grow modestly next year in the face of accelerating business demand for Windows 10 PCs, said market analyst firm Gartner in its latest forecast. “Despite the fact that prices have been rising […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a measurable impact on both IT budgets and on how enterprises conduct business. Thirteen percent of organizations have adopted AI, according to Spiceworks’ latest survey of over 1,000 IT buyers in North America and Europe. Another 17 percent plan on adopting AI solutions in the next year. Larger organizations are […]

These days, it’s good to be a public cloud services company. In a new Gartner forecast, the analyst firm predicted that the world’s public cloud services providers will generate $260.2 billion in sales this year, an 18.5-percent annual increase. By 2020, that figure is expected to jump to $411.4 billion. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits […]

Also see: IT Salary 2018 And: Top 10 Factors that Influence Your IT Salary Spiceworks had some welcome news for CIOs and the IT pros who answer to them today at its Spiceworld conference here in Austin, Texas. A “budgetary bounty” awaits them in 2018, discovered the company. Forty-four percent of organizations expect their IT […]

Technology professionals are gathered here at Spiceworld in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks’ annual conference, to share their tips and tricks on making their CIOs happy, ensuring their end-users satisfied, and more importantly, keeping their IT operations up and running. But these days, no discussion about IT is complete without mentioning effects that the Internet of Things […]

Public cloud companies crossed a big milestone during the second quarter (Q2) of 2017, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) latest research. The public cloud now accounts for just over a third (33.5 percent) of worldwide IT infrastructure sales, a 34.1-percent year-over-year increase. Revenue totaled $8.7 billion. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s […]

The market for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets got off to a slower than expected start at the beginning of 2017, but things are poised to turn around toward by the end of the year. “Virtual reality has suffered from some unrealistic growth expectations in 2017, but overall the market is still […]