When the Swedish telecom giant Ericsson AB announced in March that it was withdrawing from Mobile World Congress Barcelona, the news was swiftly followed by similar decisions from Nokia Corp., Sony Corp. and Oracle Corp. It appeared that MWC, the first major technology gathering to return in 2021 as a live event, would have a ...

The onslaught of ransomware attacks has continued unabated, with a sevenfold increase in ransomware activity in the second half of 2020 over the first half of the year, according to the latest report from FortiGuard Labs. Perhaps even more troubling is that cybercriminals have turned ransomware into a booming business, complete with help desk support ...

When Oracle Corp. acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.5 billion in 2009, there was some concern expressed in the tech community that the company would view Sun’s open-source database – MySQL – as a troublesome competitor, destined for oblivion. Instead, Oracle has taken the MySQL car into the garage, added a new engine, fine-tuned the steering, ...

The use of cloud applications has grown to a point where few, if any, businesses can operate without them. Apps enable people to connect, create, save money and time, and generally power key engines of the global economy. A growing problem, however, is that cloud application optimization has moved beyond human scale. The size of ...

Oracle Corp. is strengthening its offerings for monitoring and management automation in the hybrid cloud. The company announced the newest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager in late April. The latest version – 13c, Release 5 – is designed to create a unified management center for businesses seeking one set of tools for running IT operations ...

With a net worth of $50 billion, according to Bloomberg, Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies Inc., should by all rights be the richest person in Austin, Texas. He’s not even close. That distinction belongs to recent Texas transplant Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX Inc. and Tesla Inc., whose ...

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 ...