While the open-source delivery model has emerged as a highly popular success, the problem remains that free downloadable software does not usually lead to revenue. But a growing number of cloud network entrepreneurs are becoming convinced that focusing their efforts on providing specific services for the enterprise computing marketplace is their path to the promised ...

It’s one thing to apply deep learning and artificial intelligence tools to data. It’s another to realize meaningful results that can make a real difference in your business. Teradata Corp. is seeking to address the value proposition by focusing on use cases and solutions that get to the core of a company’s mission and customers. ...

In today’s multi-cloud world, there is a premium on making an already highly complex information technology infrastructure simpler. Developers want to move software applications across clouds without having to write or adapt new code. That’s why recent news involving a Kubernetes — an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications — ...

With the announcement of ThinkAgile, a new brand for software-defined products, Lenovo Group Ltd. is drawing a line in the sand between its offerings and those of legacy system vendors. Companies who have built their business on selling rich, customized products may now find themselves having to deal with a new competitive enterprise landscape. “There ...

Lenovo Group Ltd.’s transition from a successful consumer products company to a major player in enterprise computing has been clouded in the past by more questions than answers. But the company made significant progress today in clarifying its enterprise strategy, while going to great lengths to emphasize where it expects to find competitive advantage. “We’re ...

When AtScale Inc. released its “Hadoop Maturity Survey” in 2015, some industry observers were surprised that business intelligence had become the number one workload on the open source platform for big data management, Hadoop (in front of data science), given the problems of scaling information technology solutions. But a customer partnership between AtScale and GoDaddy ...

Lenovo Group Ltd. threw a birthday party for itself today by announcing a significant expansion of the company’s server portfolio on the 25th anniversary of the x86 introduction by IBM Corp. (Lenovo acquired the x86 server portfolio in 2014.) The news was accompanied by the creation of two brands — ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem — which are ...

Most of us have heard about the “three V’s” of data: volume, variety and velocity. Yet there’s a fourth “V” that is getting plenty of attention these days, especially in the C-suite: value. This is leading one particular executive at Dell EMC to encourage others in the enterprise computing world to think about the value of ...

The massive rise in business-critical information flowing through information technology systems today has put enormous pressure on enterprise data centers to keep up with demand. With chips finally reaching physical limitations in processing power and no longer governed by Moore’s law, companies such as IBM Corp. are increasingly joining forces with other industry leaders to ...

A big problem among telecom companies today is churn, subscribers who leave a particular service provider and move to another. Understanding why customers leave and how to reduce churn is a major goal for any firm in the telecom space. And that’s why a recently announced partnership between IBM Corp. and Hortonworks Inc. is raising hopes ...