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 ...

For many years, the pace of cloud adoption was slowed by concerns over data security. But when the Central Intelligence Agency awarded a $600 million contract to Amazon Web Services Inc. in 2013 to move some of the nation’s most sensitive information into the cloud, it was widely viewed as a seminal moment for the ...

Rules are important in the computing world, but they are everything for a government agency. That’s why Fugue Inc. has built a new kind of cloud-native automated operating system designed to mitigate risk and streamline system governance. “Fugue builds it, monitors it, self-heals it, modifies it over time and alerts if anything drifts. It’s really ...

With five satellites streaming 100 terabytes of satellite-captured global images every day, DigitalGlobe Inc. had reached a point this year where it had to do something with its massive tape storage archive. The solution started with small, shippable storage devices and ended with a massive semi-truck driving a secret route to safely deposit the company’s ...

It’s been 10 years since Apache Hadoop, open-source-based software used for storing, processing and analyzing big data, was brought into the technology picture. And executives at Hortonworks Inc. are increasingly focused on a single word to describe both its success and long-term mission: community. The company’s business strategy from the start has been centered on ...

Whether it’s shopping for a pair of shoes or running a large multi-tier data center, everyone is looking for value. The increasing complexity involved in managing the vast store of raw data, the data lake, has information technology executives looking for tools that can perform predictive analytics accurately and rapidly while making a real contribution to ...

After years of presentations that focused on how to analyze, enhance and even expand views of data as it landed in the cluster, Hortonworks Inc. finally admitted that it conveniently ignored how to actually build a process that streamed in the data itself. With the company’s announcement this week of the Streaming Analytics Manager as ...

Apache Hadoop, the open-source-based software used for storing, processing and analyzing big data, has taken its share of lumps over the past year based on its integration complexity and concerns about data governance. Yet, the news that IBM Corp. and Hortonworks Inc. will be teaming up to infuse combined data management platforms with machine learning and ...