In the terminology of enterprise computing, there are plenty of ways to describe data. There’s hot data that is accessed via fast storage, cold data obtained through slower storage, and real-time data, generally viewed as information delivered immediately after collection. Now WANdisco Inc. has provided another addition to the lexicon: live data. “This is more ...

When Del Monte Foods Inc. began to consider migrating its entire information technology operation to the cloud on Amazon Web Services Inc., it was looking at a time frame of at least seven months to make the move. By the time Del Monte had completed its migration plan, in partnership with Accenture, that window had ...

Before the 9,000 attendees at the AWS Summit in San Francisco could find their seats at the conference’s morning keynote session today, Amazon Web Services Inc. had already announced the addition of image publishing service Shutterfly Inc. and vehicle services firm Cox Automotive Inc. to its expanding list of cloud customers. “They are going all-in on ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off its one-day summit in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday with keynote presentations that covered a number of cloud services, but the company’s focus was clearly on SageMaker, designed to create and deploy machine learning algorithms. AWS announced multiple updates to SageMaker at the event, including a “local mode,” which ...

When Pivotal Software Inc. partnered with Google and VMware Inc. in 2017 to create a managed Kubernetes offering called Pivotal Container Service, or PKS, it was only a matter of time before the initial beta release progressed to general availability. That time came in February, when it was announced that the service would now enable ...

During one social event at a data conference in San Jose, California, last month, Murthy Mathiprakasam (pictured) pulled up a chair and began to chat with the information technology executive of a large insurance company, an Informatica Corp. customer. The IT executive was blunt: He was preparing to remove an entire portfolio of cloud technologies ...

In a move to simplify artificial intelligence deployment within enterprise computing infrastructures, Pure Storage Inc. has teamed up with hardware maker Nvidia Corp. Using four Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputers, Pure adds its FlashBlade array to create AIRI, the latest tool for the AI-ready infrastructure. “You pull compute and storage and networking all into this compact design so ...

Running a data analytics division inside a large company today is like being the head coach at a football all-star game. Everyone on the field has a different-looking helmet, but they still need to work together as a team. At any given time, an analytics group might have machine learning engineers, predictive analytics engineers, data ...

In 2011, Yuanhao Sun (pictured) was part of the Intel team that released the first enterprise Apache Hadoop in China. Seven years later, he is leading a team at Transwarp Technology Inc. that built a distributed in-memory analysis engine and real-time, large-scale computation platform, claiming better performance of open-source Hadoop by factors of 10 to ...

With big data and its consequences very much in the news this year, the conversation around the handling of information streams is turning toward issues such as privacy and bias. The big data era has moved from the technical requirements, such as ingestion and storage, into the realm of action, where enterprises need to put data ...