Timothy McCarthy

LAS VEGAS -- Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, said more than a decade of migration headaches and unpredictable pricing woes have soured IT teams on the public cloud. VMware by Broadcom, he argued Tuesday during his keynote at VMware Explore, will provide a comprehensive private cloud offering built on the decades-proven technology of VMware's virtualized compute, storage and networking. "You're all now suffering from PTSD," Tan said to conference attendees. "The private cloud is now the platform to...

Broadcom and AT&T have come to a temporary agreement to continue the customer's VMware licensing contract with a support extension for one month as the telecommunications giant pushes back against the vendor's new subscription sales model.

Broadcom ended its VMware IT Academy and Academic Software Licensing programs on Aug. 15, sending IT educators scrambling for alternative virtualization services. The two programs combined offered significantly discounted licenses and standardized training for the VMware platform, enabling students to learn, earn credits and take certification tests.

Corrupted data in the Federal Aviation Administration's technology infrastructure should make enterprise IT teams consider and test high availability capabilities and recovery timetables for their own stacks.

IT employers still see the value of keeping storage administrator jobs in house despite the allure of savings with managed services.

Tech buyers are interested in the breadth and depth of services sold through the HPE GreenLake service, but want proof of cost savings and data control.

The marketing lingo of Web3 is slinking into the storage industry, but the use cases are few and the technology immature. "There's no agreed-upon definition of Web3," said Martha Bennett, principal analyst at Forrester Research. "It's been appropriated by the blockchain ecosystem. It's largely a designation label to say the future will be blockchain and crypto-economics."

Real estate ads, especially in the old towns of New England, frequently promise you can “own a piece of history.” But what about history you can not only live in, but help sustain?

“If it’s your personal Facebook page, you can put (posts like that) on it,” Lashus said. “But if you’re using the American Legion (imagery), that’s when we’d send the cease and desist.”

"Thank you, for your endless embarrassment and love," wrote Caroline Trustey on her Facebook page. "I hope to someday be half the amazing person you are. Fly with the angels Dad, I love you, and I promise to make you proud."