In the most recent quarterly results, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported an increase of 41% in total order growth for HPE GreenLake, citing “very strong momentum” for the company’s as-a-service offering that brings cloudlike flexibility to datacenters. The results demonstrated a validation of HPE’s as-as-service business strategy, with clear signals that customers were responding to ...

The work of Hewlett Packard Labs is generally focused on the transfer of advanced technologies into next generation products and solutions. Yet on occasion, the Labs’ leadership finds it necessary to step back, assess the landscape in front and make decisions about what lies ahead. This is the process recently experienced by one of the ...

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that software would eat the world. Last month, two members of his investment firm Andreessen Horowitz made the case that cloud has been eating the enterprise’s money. In a post titled “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox,” Martin Casado and Sarah Wang detailed an analysis of enterprise cloud ...

As veteran venture capitalists with lengthy experience working inside the technology startup community, Peter Wagner, founding partner at Wing Venture Capital, and Katie Drucker, head of business development and partnerships at Madrona Venture Group, have plenty of perspective on the ups and downs of opportunity in the tech space. Right now, the arrow is mostly ...

Startups considering which future technology trends to track and build on for the businesses of tomorrow might be wise to take note of research coming out of the University of California at Berkeley. The seven co-founders of Databricks Inc. were previously researchers at the school, motivated by a common mission to find value inside of ...

If numbers tell the story, then the current narrative for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. appears to be a tale of renewal and growth after a rocky stretch of revenue results over the past five years. The company’s second quarter fiscal earnings reported this month included a return to revenue growth for the first time since ...

When the preliminary design of Ingres, the forerunner to PostgreSQL, was first tested at UC Berkeley, the president of the United States at the time was a man named Richard Nixon and tech pioneers Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were still teenagers. That a database technology has this kind of longevity is testimony to the ...

It began as an open-source project incubated by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and today it has become one of the hottest startups in the tech world, with a $28 billion valuation and a highly anticipated initial public offering in the works. Databricks Inc. was founded in 2013 as an AI and data ...

When terms like supply chain, nation-state actors and ransomware become mainstream topics of national conversation, it’s probably a good time to take cybersecurity even more seriously. Over the past six months, a compromise of third-party software used to protect sensitive networks in the U.S. government and four-fifths of the Fortune 500 companies continues to play ...

If there is a singular example that shows how the cloud is paving the way for a new operating model where virtually everything will be delivered as-a-service, consider the mobile banking app. Applications for banking services were already gathering steam before COVID-19. After the pandemic closed many traditional in-person banking functions, the app became a ...