When Dell Inc. sold off its software division in 2016 prior to the merger with EMC Corp., the only company it kept was a small integration and data management company called Boomi Inc. Last March, the renamed Dell Boomi acquired an even smaller firm called ManyWho Inc., a unified cloud and faster “low-code” software development platform. ...

Millions of data points from smartwatches and fitness trackers generate tremendous amounts of digital records every second, and most of this information goes right into object storage servers, where it’s organized more flexibly than traditional hierarchal methods. Bundled along with metadata and a unique identifier, this fitness data has the potential to alert users of health risks, if ...

When PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, surveyed legal and technology executives from major global firms earlier this year, it found that nearly all (92 percent) considered compliance with new European regulations governing data privacy to be the number one priority on the data management and security agenda. It didn’t take long after that for firms to begin calling ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s acquisition of flash array company Nimble Storage in April was like reaching into a bowl of candy and pulling out three treats instead of only one. For $1.2 billion, HPE added all-flash and hybrid flash/disk array lines, the ability to store data in the public or private cloud near big provider ...

Talk to any chief information officer and phrases like “single-click deployment,” “easier implementation” and “lower costs” will generally get their attention. That’s why the recent news from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. about a composable platform that combines VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation with its Synergy product sounds like music to the ears of enterprise technology managers seeking ...

In the multicloud, software-defined, hyperscale world, Veritas Technologies LLC is all in. The company that separated from Symantec Corp. over two years ago is now firmly on the path to identify itself as a leading data management business, recognizing that information is the coin of the realm. And Veritas made a series of major product ...

A $52 million investment earlier this year has put customer success startup Gainsight Inc. closer to the rarefied air of a $1 billion valuation. That a company with a business model based on making other firms successful might achieve unicorn status itself is testimony to the growing importance of customer service in the growing software as ...

In what might well be a technology industry first, an enterprising student at the Holberton School of Software Engineering in San Francisco, California, penned and posted a three-minute in-class rap performance about bash scripting. As the video went viral (at least inside the software community), it even caught the attention of Linus Torvalds, creator and ...

Being able to mix and match software components in container configuration has become an important part of virtualizing the distribution of applications in the enterprise stack. So when Docker Inc. announced the Moby Project at DockerCon earlier this year, it was both an opportunity to capitalize on innovations in the open-source community to further the container cause, ...

An ambitious project to recycle plastic refuse in developing countries that have little or no waste management systems is being powered by the IBM Blockchain. Big Blue’s use of the tamper-proof ledger system is only half the story, because the recycling project is also designed to pay people who bring in their plastic, a tricky proposition ...