For a company built on the premise of big-data management, the challenge for Hortonworks Inc. is to keep its eye on where enterprise information is going. As big-data applications move between on-premises and cloud platforms and customers increasingly demand workload flexibility, the information technology landscape has changed drastically since the company was founded just seven years ago. ...

When Lenovo Group Ltd. acquired the personal computer business from IBM Corp. in 2004, some skeptics questioned the venture’s future success. Yet the company managed to expand the business to a position as the world’s largest supplier of PCs by 2013. Lenovo is at it again. On Thursday, the company announced plans to partner with NetApp Inc. in launching a ...

Less than a year ago, Red Hat Inc. announced Ceph, a major upgrade to its scalable, software-defined object storage platform, following up with news in May that the open-source software provider would combine the latest release with OpenStack Platform 13. The news was significant because it represented Red Hat’s response to what it had been discussing with customers seeking to deploy ...

When Hadoop made its entry into the big data picture 13 years ago, it offered a necessary platform for big data management while the cloud was still a mere speck on the enterprise horizon. Now, the largest three Hadoop players — Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc. — have big data workloads running ...

Responding to continued vulnerability of systems to security threats as more internet of things devices attach to networks, information technology security company Fortinet Inc. has introduced a new network access control solution to enable visibility at scale across multi-vendor environments. FortiNAC is a next step following the acquisition of Bradford Networks Inc. in June and is ...

When VMware Inc. made headline news last week with the announcement that it would launch its cloud service on Amazon Web Services Inc., a number of companies began scrambling to see how they might fit into the new picture. That wasn’t necessary for CloudEndure Ltd. because it already had a seat at the VMware table. ...

When Dell EMC rolled out its PowerEdge 14G server line last year, the company emphasized features such as automated server setup, security, and faster hyperscale workload performance in anticipation that the software-defined infrastructure would become a key element for enterprise data centers. One year later, prior to VMworld last week, Dell EMC announced its PowerEdge ...

Over Labor Day weekend, the Dell Technologies Championship golf tournament in Boston made headlines as Tiger Woods played in contention throughout the event. Faced with a chance to close within two shots of the lead midway through Monday’s final round, Woods left a putt right on the edge of the cup and failed to win. ...

As more enterprises move workloads into multiple clouds, the need to manage that infrastructure has become greater. To meet this demand, Cisco Systems Inc. has created CloudCenter, a multicloud management tool designed to provide preconfigured integration capabilities for a number of cloud platforms. “CloudCenter manages over 15 clouds today,” said Zach Kielich (pictured, right), senior ...

Being first to market often has benefits, and it can take a special kind of vision to be the initial investor before others join the bandwagon. Which is why when Andy Bechtolsheim (pictured), founder, chief development officer and chairman of Arista Networks Inc., gets excited about an evolving technology, it’s probably a good time to ...