Mark Albertson
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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 …
An experience, not a destination: How cloud as infrastructure fits HPE’s GreenLake strategy
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 …
Dremio shifts analytics processing from data warehouse to data lake to speed up self-service
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 …
Watch live: Ezmeral’s data fabric highlights HPE’s renewed focus on software, March 17
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 …
Teradata’s cloud-first vision shows results with customers and Wall Street
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 …
US inches toward payments modernization while China races ahead
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 …
HPE Ezmeral redefines the power of data analytics and containers in March 17 event
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 …
Watch live: HPE hybrid solutions will highlight GreenLake Day on March 10
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 …
Observability moves to the center of the distributed systems conversation
In an age of distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and workloads, the act of “monitoring” has morphed into “observability,” yet both remain important as enterprises manage complex hybrid and multicloud infrastructure. The distinction between monitoring and observability can be tricky to pin down. But the …
Hybrid and as-a-service strategies will be center stage for HPE’s GreenLake Day on March 10
In June 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced that it would offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022. Nearly two years later, that big bet is showing signs of paying off. And a key element driving the initiative is …