When Rubrik Inc. acquired Datos IO Inc. in February, both companies viewed the partnership as an opportunity to expand into enterprise markets with cloud-native applications and support for NoSQL database management. With the release of Rubrik’s Datos IO 3.0 this month, additional new features servicing multiple platforms demonstrate a strategy to capture significant market share in the ...

Midway through the Lincoln Network’s Reboot 2018 conference in San Francisco on Friday, one speaker asked approximately 200 attendees a simple question: How many watched the U.S. Senate hearings on Facebook in April? Virtually everyone in the room raised a hand. The next question: How many felt legislators understood how the technology industry worked? No ...

It’s really hard to overestimate the power of small, game-animated, yellow furry bodies. Since it burst into the world 22 years ago, Pokémon continues to roll merrily along, and the craze that accompanied its release of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go in 2016 made it the highest grossing mobile application in the United States. How big was ...

After becoming the chief data officer for IBM Analytics in 2016, Seth Dobrin (pictured, left) hit the road and talked with as many customers as he could schedule. What he learned was that IBM Corp.’s clients needed help in the data science arena. “We found a consistent theme with our clients,” Dobrin said. “They needed ...

Although it seems like Bluetooth’s wireless technology has been around forever, if it grew legs and walked into a bar, it still wouldn’t be old enough to buy a drink. But as it celebrates its 20th year, Bluetooth’s global impact makes it seem mature beyond its years. And that impact is set to sweep rapidly across ...

Through a series of acquisitions and enhancements to its family of products in less than two years, Syncsort Inc. is cementing its role in big iron to big data software. Last week, the company added new capabilities to Syncsort Integrate that enable real-time data streams from multiple sources to applications. The new features are designed to ...

Today’s development operations staff eats, sleeps and breathes data, and they rely on a set of tools to provide the critical information they need, especially when the system slows to a crawl or applications fail to work. These are tools seldom visible to the general public, but they serve a vital role in making sure ...

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 ...