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Nutanix Steals VMware COO to Lead Company

“Rajiv is the right leader at the right time,” outgoing CEO and Nutanix co-founder Dheeraj Pandey said. Read more.

FireEye Hit by ‘Highly Sophisticated’ Nation-State Attack

“Based on my 25 years in cybersecurity and responding to incidents, I’ve concluded we are witnessing an attack by a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities,” FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said. Read more.

HPE Brings HPC to GreenLake

HPE SVP Keith White described the new offering as “supercomputing-as-a-service.” Read more.

Zscaler CEO: Network Security Is Dead. Long Live SASE

“Network security is not really very meaningful,” CEO Jay Chaudhry said. “We decouple network access and application access with zero trust.” Read more.

Firebolt Emerges With Guns Blazing At Snowflake

Firebolt emerged from stealth with a cloud-native data warehouse that builds off of Snowflake's weaknesses: cost, efficiency, and speed. Read more.

Open Source Community Conquers 2020’s Pitfalls

The open source community is looking to build positive outcomes on some of the most troubling aspects of the past year. Read more.

Arista Drives Big Switch, Awake Deals Into DMF

The Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric combines its legacy Data Analyzer with Big Switch’s monitoring fabric software and runs on Arista’s switching platform. Read more.

AWS Exec Predicts IoT Namesake’s Demise

“I believe IoT will disappear as a term. The Internet of Things is really a snapshot in time because fundamentally everything will be connected,” AWS' Sarah Cooper said. Read more.