Although it seems like Bluetooth’s wireless technology has been around forever, if it grew legs and walked into a bar, it still wouldn’t be old enough to buy a drink. But as it celebrates its 20th year, Bluetooth’s global impact makes it seem mature beyond its years. And that impact is set to sweep rapidly across ...

Through a series of acquisitions and enhancements to its family of products in less than two years, Syncsort Inc. is cementing its role in big iron to big data software. Last week, the company added new capabilities to Syncsort Integrate that enable real-time data streams from multiple sources to applications. The new features are designed to ...

Today’s development operations staff eats, sleeps and breathes data, and they rely on a set of tools to provide the critical information they need, especially when the system slows to a crawl or applications fail to work. These are tools seldom visible to the general public, but they serve a vital role in making sure ...

For a company built on the premise of big-data management, the challenge for Hortonworks Inc. is to keep its eye on where enterprise information is going. As big-data applications move between on-premises and cloud platforms and customers increasingly demand workload flexibility, the information technology landscape has changed drastically since the company was founded just seven years ago. ...

When Lenovo Group Ltd. acquired the personal computer business from IBM Corp. in 2004, some skeptics questioned the venture’s future success. Yet the company managed to expand the business to a position as the world’s largest supplier of PCs by 2013. Lenovo is at it again. On Thursday, the company announced plans to partner with NetApp Inc. in launching a ...

Less than a year ago, Red Hat Inc. announced Ceph, a major upgrade to its scalable, software-defined object storage platform, following up with news in May that the open-source software provider would combine the latest release with OpenStack Platform 13. The news was significant because it represented Red Hat’s response to what it had been discussing with customers seeking to deploy ...

When Hadoop made its entry into the big data picture 13 years ago, it offered a necessary platform for big data management while the cloud was still a mere speck on the enterprise horizon. Now, the largest three Hadoop players — Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc. — have big data workloads running ...

Responding to continued vulnerability of systems to security threats as more internet of things devices attach to networks, information technology security company Fortinet Inc. has introduced a new network access control solution to enable visibility at scale across multi-vendor environments. FortiNAC is a next step following the acquisition of Bradford Networks Inc. in June and is ...

When VMware Inc. made headline news last week with the announcement that it would launch its cloud service on Amazon Web Services Inc., a number of companies began scrambling to see how they might fit into the new picture. That wasn’t necessary for CloudEndure Ltd. because it already had a seat at the VMware table. ...

When Dell EMC rolled out its PowerEdge 14G server line last year, the company emphasized features such as automated server setup, security, and faster hyperscale workload performance in anticipation that the software-defined infrastructure would become a key element for enterprise data centers. One year later, prior to VMworld last week, Dell EMC announced its PowerEdge ...