As activity around the enterprise edge continues to heat up, some major technology players are building data processing architectures around multi-access edge computing, or MEC. The services model emerging from this trend will be a point of exploration at this week’s Dell Technologies World. MEC technology moves compute of traffic and services from a central ...

The partnership between Io-Tahoe LLC and Snowflake Inc. represents an acknowledgement that the power of the cloud combined with intelligent automation is going to play a central role in the future of enterprise data management. When it comes to data the needs are clear. Enterprises want data quality and a central repository where information can ...

For Dell Technologies Inc., 2020 set the table for what promises to be a very active 2021. The company achieved a record fiscal year, generating $94.2 billion in total sales, which included a high of $48.4 billion in sales for its Client Solutions Group. More recently, Dell announced plans to spin off its 81% equity ownership ...

Enterprises are learning that integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into a data analytics strategy can result in two significant benefits: increased innovation and reduced costs. These two outcomes are fueling interest in the application of AI analytics to massive data stores. A 2019 report from Enterprise Management Associates quantified the reasons why firms were ...

The challenge for enterprise IT is to stay at least one step ahead of the next technology wave. When it comes to data, that means preparing for the unstructured tsunami. Unstructured data is predicted to grow for most enterprises by over 50% per year, reaching 80% of all data by 2025, according to IDC. This ...

For Jim Whitehurst, becoming the chief executive of Red Hat Inc. in 2007 was like ordering a five-course meal and only receiving a couple of appetizers. He expected to find a customer list that represented the core global industries and biggest information technology consumers. Instead, it was financial institutions, some phone companies and not much ...

In baseball, when a player rises from the minor leagues and earns a spot with a major club, it’s called “going to The Show” and it’s cause for great celebration. Tech’s turn in the batter’s box for “The Show” has not so fun. A number of tech companies that began as startups with innovative ideas have ...

Recent research is beginning to offer a clearer picture of what a post-pandemic world might look like, confirming what many might expect. Entire sectors of the economy and social life are being transformed virtually overnight, unleashing a new set of expectations from technology service providers. A new Harvard Business School survey found that more than ...

Whether information is stored in raw form in massive data lakes or in more structured data warehouse environments, one truth is constant: Enterprise users must still be able to find what they need at any given moment. This need has created a compelling market opportunity for data discovery firms such as Snowflake Inc. and Io-Tahoe ...

GoldenGate, Oracle Corp.’s software for replicating data from one database to another, is being released as a fully managed and automated cloud service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle’s latest move, in what has been a busy 2021 for the enterprise database giant, is geared toward providing simplicity with flexibility in scaling and pay-per-use pricing. “Traditionally, data ...