As HPE Discover EU kicked off this week in Madrid, Spain, the conference discussion was initially focused on the news that Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. would be stepping down in February. The most significant action in her tenure was to split the legacy company into two businesses, Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...

Just over seven years ago, Pentaho Corp. founder James Dixon famously coined the term “data lake” in a blog post about his company’s first software release built atop open source data management platform Hadoop. A lot of data has flowed over the dam since then, the lake looks more like an ocean and the challenge confronting enterprises today is ...

Dell EMC’s recent announcement of a significant boost for its PowerEdge C4140 server is a nod towards increased customer demand for high-performance computing in a growing number of fields. It’s not just for high profile research projects anymore. HPC is expanding into the airline industry and financial services world as new applications, such as machine ...

Dell EMC wants to democratize high-performance computing. The plan is to provide its clients with the machine learning and deep learning tools to achieve stronger data insights and apply that knowledge to reach higher levels of merchandising success. “Imagine a day when the machine or the deep learning artificial intelligence actually tells you that it’s ...

Intel Corp. has patiently built its low-latency, high-speed computing fabric over the past six years and the results, in terms of market penetration, are starting to show. After acquiring Fulcrum Microsystems (technology for Ethernet switches) in 2011, the company also added the InfiniBand switch product line from QLogic in 2012. Less than six years later, ...

In the competitive world of Formula One racing, teams of engineers work around the clock to modify car designs in the never-ending quest for a few more seconds of speed. For Red Bull Racing Ltd., one of the leading Formula One racing teams in the world, that quest means using the IBM Spectrum high-performance computing ...

Most people probably aren’t aware of this, but the 2016 U.S. Presidential election included a candidate who had a radio-frequency identification chip implanted in his hand. No, it wasn’t Donald J. Trump. It was Zoltan Istvan, a nominee representing the Silicon Valley-based Transhumanist Party and his body-worn chip unlocked his front door, provided computer password ...

It’s every chief financial officer’s worst nightmare come true. On the night of April 28, 2015, an early and unintended release of Twitter’s disappointing earnings results erased $8 billion in the company’s value over the course of just a few hours. The information had been scraped by another website’s bot from a Nasdaq page and ...

In an interesting move by Sony that will be closely watched by the security industry, the Japanese technology giant recently filed a patent application that combines multifactor authentication with the blockchain’s extra-secure digital ledger. The concept, as outlined in the filing, is to use two different blockchain platforms in coordination with a potential user login ...

There are nearly two billion usernames and passwords available for sale in the black market, according to a recent joint study carried out by Google LLC and the University of California. A significant percentage of those login credentials can be used to directly access Google accounts, driving security researchers’ new focus on machine learning methods to keep password authentication processes from ...