W.R. Grace and Co. has been manufacturing chemical compounds since 1854. But when Srini Vanga (pictured, right) took over the leadership role for the firm’s IT department four years ago, he did not want to rely on decades-old models to meet the demanding technology needs of his company. “I made a decision that I no ...

Positioned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. as a key part of its as-a-service, hybrid computing strategy, GreenLake offers a robust set of services tailored for the private cloud. This is not an afterthought bolted on to satisfy a niche enterprise market. According to data provided by HPE during the recent HPE GreenLake Day event, 95% of ...

If a business experienced revenue growth of 100%, it might be cause for celebration. And 200% would call for champagne. Kong Inc. has reported 618% revenue growth over a two-year period, earning it a spot in the top 30 of California’s fastest-growing private companies. The firm’s rapid growth has been fueled by enterprise interest in ...

If predictions are correct, the shift to cloud-centric, application-based models is about to leave the pace of change over the prior year in the dust. When IDC released its “FutureScape Highlights” report in October on what will happen next as the IT industry responds to disruption caused by a global pandemic, its top-rated prediction stood ...

Data warehouses have proven to be great repositories for enormous amounts of critical information, but the process of preloading data into the necessary structure to run business analytics workloads can take weeks. One startup company has found a way to change that model by delivering sub-second query response times using cloud data lakes instead. Dremio ...

A company with the size and longevity of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. doesn’t remain a major technology player for decades without periodically reinventing itself to keep pace with change. This accounts for why HPE jettisoned its software business and rebuilt a new one, tailored specifically for the cloud era. Nearly five years ago, HPE sold ...

When Teradata Corp. delivered its fourth quarter earnings report last month, the numbers contained a surprise for Wall Street observers. Annual recurring revenue for public cloud-based services grew to $106 million, a 165% increase year-over-year. The news has led longtime followers of the 42-year-old database and analytics services provider to take a closer look at ...

A wave of digital transformation has swept the world during the past year, driven by a global pandemic and wholesale adoption of cloud-connected tools. But there’s little sign of all that change when you try to do something as seemingly simple as buying something in a store. As many a shopper can attest, paying for ...

As many tech users know, when a device suddenly slows to a crawl, the best solution is to simply clear the cache and reboot. That is essentially what Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. did with its software business in 2016. Nearly five years ago, HPE sold its software portfolio to Micro Focus International PLC for $8.8 ...

GreenLake’s growing contribution to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s as-a-service business strategy is emerging as one of the company’s more notable story lines for 2021.  Introduced as a pay-per-use suite of IT solutions for customer workloads, GreenLake hit the market in 2017. Less than a year later, HPE had already accumulated $5 billion in assets under ...