It seems as though the technology industry has been trying to bury Big Iron (a.k.a. the mainframe computer) for the past 30 years. The demise of Big Iron was the premise behind Sun Microsystems Inc. in the 1980s, but Sun is basically gone now (absorbed by Oracle) and the mainframe keeps rolling along. In fact, ...

When it comes to managing data in the enterprise, words like “cleansing,” “wrangling” or “preparation” are frequently used to describe the work necessary to place information in the right shape and form so it can be effectively used. If this sounds like a lot of work, it is. So IBM has introduced its Integrated Analytics ...

One of the key principles in today’s enterprise data “lake” repository is that real-time data integration streaming is needed from multiple sources. It takes specialized tools to capture data in this environment, and Attunity Inc. has built its reputation as one of the vendors that operates in that space. The challenge in data integration has ...

If the definition of a swamp is low, uncultivated ground saturated with water, then a data swamp is found in enterprise architectures that are inundated with too much information to handle. The push is on not just to manage the data-saturated enterprise, but to get information flowing in ways that will add business value across ...

There’s hybrid cloud, hybrid clusters, hybrid cars, and even hybrid theory (crossing varieties of fruit). But the mention of hybrid data will draw quizzical looks and prompt some head scratching. Actian Corp., a Silicon Valley data integration and management company, has big plans to change that. “It’s a shift that people aren’t talking about. We’re ...

Robert Herjavec (pictured) is known to most people as a “Shark Investor,” one of the stars on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank.” On the show, he and other figures from the world of business hear pitches from budding entrepreneurs and decide whether to invest in a startup enterprise. But what many people probably don’t ...

The competitive landscape for dominance in the data infrastructure field is similar to a car race on a wide stretch of straight open road. No one is especially worried about taking a corner too fast, because this is just a flat-out, pedal-to-the-metal blast to see who can bring the fastest storage performance to the enterprise ...

The opening day of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing attracted 18,000 attendees (a record turnout for the event), and included a number of women with inspiring stories. Among these were a former White House official, the previous leader of one of the largest public school systems in the nation and two pioneering technology ...

In the never-ending quest to add yet another candidate for the “Next Big Thing” technology list, drones are looking like a solid choice. For the first time, investment in drone companies exceeded $1 billion in 2017 and when the Federal Aviation Authority opened a commercial drone pilot licensing program late last year, 300 new operators ...

Despite a culture that promotes disruption, there are times when the technology industry finds itself in the spotlight for actions or positions that are not positive. When an internal Google memorandum that said that the firm’s attempt to create a more gender-balanced workforce was hurting the company leaked out, a public firestorm erupted and the writer ...