Impressive customer testimonials and a strategy for big data management at the edge of computing networks were a major part of the dialogue during the first day of PentahoWorld. But as executives from the newly created Hitachi Vantara business defined their vision of the computing future, there were still questions among analysts around how a ...

One of the more fascinating battles in technology today is playing out between Amazon and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Surging earnings have allowed Alibaba to grow nearer to Amazon.com Inc. in market capitalization over the past three months, and the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse briefly surpassed Amazon as the most valuable retailer in the online world. ...

IBM Corp.’s gathering of 150 chief data officers in Boston was a prime opportunity to have a frank discussion about the role and responsibility of a CDO in implementing the enterprise architecture blueprint. It’s an approach not without risk in today’s information technology community, since the CDO’s role has increasingly evolved into one where monetization ...

When Hitachi Data Systems Corp., or HDS, acquired data analytics firm Pentaho Corp. for a rumored $500 million two years ago, it marked yet another step in Hitachi’s business model transformation. What was once known as a company in the hardware, infrastructure and storage space was rapidly becoming a software and services vendor. And HDS was anticipating ...

A recent industry study showed that there will be 20 billion connected, data-generating “internet of things” devices in the market by 2020. Who is going to own all of that data? That’s the central question that is under much discussion in the information technology world these days as companies gaze warily at the internet of ...

For any chief data officer today, the job description sounds like a cross between every other top-level information technology position in the organization. Data quality, governance and management are all required skills, in addition to information strategy, business analytics and data science. Oh yes, and make sure that this can all be monetized while coming ...

The wild world of initial coin offerings got a little wilder on Tuesday as the husband-and-wife team who founded blockchain startup Tezos appeared publicly for the first time since a behind-the-scenes battle over control of the nonprofit fundraising foundation erupted into the open last week. Speaking at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference in Las Vegas, ...

When Alibaba Group Chief Executive Officer and Founder Jack Ma decided to hold the first Computing Conference, the cloud technology event drew 120 people. This year 60,000 attendees participated, and the partner list included major names in the industry, including as Intel, Nvidia, Cisco and SAP. What a difference eight years makes. The public cloud ...

Intel’s recent announcement that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration as a service feature in the Alibaba Cloud shines a spotlight on a changing landscape for the integrated circuit market. FPGAs let customers configure the chip after it leaves the factory, opening up a new realm where circuits can deliver ...

A Gartner Inc. report places Alibaba Cloud’s (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group), market position in fourth place, and the share (2.6 percent) does not even come within sniffing distance of Amazon (30.3 percent) and Microsoft Azure (13.8 percent). Even third place Google LLC has more than twice the share at 5.9 percent. Yet, one of ...