Although Amazon Web Services Inc. has made plenty of news this week with a multitude of headline-grabbing announcements, much of the talk has surrounded Andy Jassy’s pointed remarks on Wednesday about competitors. The AWS chief executive officer delivered particularly sharp comments about Oracle Corp., which came as a surprise to some because that company lags far ...

New leadership is coming to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on February 1 when current Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman steps down and Antonio Neri (HPE’s current president) takes over. At first glance, it would appear that the company is trading a business and sales executive in Whitman for one with a strong engineering background, but as ...

Today’s string of announcements from AWS re:Invent focused on new cloud tools for writing and debugging code and the migration of Echo‘s artificial intelligence technology into business products. But underlying his keynote presentation, Amazon Web Services Inc. Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Werner Vogels had a more significant message: Amazon is taking a broader view of the entire information ...

The growing focus on data collection and processing by “internet of things” devices is leading information technology executives to seek new solutions that can deliver results at the edge similar to what they know and love in the data center environment. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. believes it has found an answer for that in its ...

The messages coming from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on the first day of its European conference this week validated where many analysts believe the computing industry is headed — and it’s not all about the cloud. HPE’s focus on placing information technology where the data needs it, increased automation in the data center, and building ...

As HPE Discover EU kicked off this week in Madrid, Spain, the conference discussion was initially focused on the news that Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. would be stepping down in February. The most significant action in her tenure was to split the legacy company into two businesses, Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...

Just over seven years ago, Pentaho Corp. founder James Dixon famously coined the term “data lake” in a blog post about his company’s first software release built atop open source data management platform Hadoop. A lot of data has flowed over the dam since then, the lake looks more like an ocean and the challenge confronting enterprises today is ...

Dell EMC’s recent announcement of a significant boost for its PowerEdge C4140 server is a nod towards increased customer demand for high-performance computing in a growing number of fields. It’s not just for high profile research projects anymore. HPC is expanding into the airline industry and financial services world as new applications, such as machine ...

Dell EMC wants to democratize high-performance computing. The plan is to provide its clients with the machine learning and deep learning tools to achieve stronger data insights and apply that knowledge to reach higher levels of merchandising success. “Imagine a day when the machine or the deep learning artificial intelligence actually tells you that it’s ...

Intel Corp. has patiently built its low-latency, high-speed computing fabric over the past six years and the results, in terms of market penetration, are starting to show. After acquiring Fulcrum Microsystems (technology for Ethernet switches) in 2011, the company also added the InfiniBand switch product line from QLogic in 2012. Less than six years later, ...