“Check my spacewalking gloves, HAL.” The HAL 9000 computer that starred in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — and made such a mess of maintenance issues on the Discovery One spaceship… Read More
If your cell phone went out 17 times a day, for anywhere from 1 second to 20 minutes, you’d get a new wireless provider. That’s basically what astronauts on the… Read More
The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing to the International Space Station. HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-2, which is… Read More
Highlights from today’s top stories. Subscribe here to receive this rundown daily. Satya Nadella owns a soccer team. At least, he owns a piece of one. An all-star roster of Seattle tech… Read More
Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy, capable of conducting 3D simulations at unprecedented speeds to better… Read More
Cray decided to sell its supercomputing business to HPE for $1.3 billion last week in part because it was worried about the long-term impact of cloud providers like Amazon Web… Read More
HPE is doubling down on the supercomputing game, announcing plans Friday to acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in a deal that links two iconic brands in computing history. The… Read More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise says it’s been selected to build a supercomputer designed to simulate the inner workings of the mouse brain by 2020. The computer, known as Blue Brain 5,… Read More
Kate Isler says her company, Daysaver, needs to start growing. Isler wants to show off her cloud-based patient scheduling software to gigantic healthcare providers — and she wants to prove… Read More
It’s been a rough few years for old-school IT companies, but HPE easily outpaced Wall Street expectations for its first fiscal quarter thanks to growth in demand for its IT… Read More
HPE CEO Meg Whitman, who led the company through some turbulent times it hasn’t quite escaped, will step down as CEO at the end of next quarter, the company announced… Read More
The most powerful computer ever sent into space proved its mettle this month by registering a processing speed in excess of a trillion floating-point calculations per second, a measure that’s… Read More
Amazon Web Services is arguably Amazon’s second-greatest creation, after the construction of a retail empire that has done so much to influence the way just about everything is bought and… Read More
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has sent a robotic Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station with three tons of supplies and scientific experiments, including a supercomputer that could help… Read More
If you’re the kind of person who enjoys spending time sifting through tech company press releases (and who doesn’t, right?) you might have noticed something strange in an otherwise routine… Read More
Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce Wednesday that it will distribute $258 million in funding… Read More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s agreement to buy hyperconverged-infrastructure provider SimpliVity for $650 million in cash, announced Monday, gives HPE one less competitor to deal with and a bigger market for its… Read More
As cloud computing grows and swells the coffers of companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, it’s instructive to also note which firms the cloud’s growth is hurting. For example, revenue… Read More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a cloud, server and storage company that split from Hewlett Packard in late 2015, laid off an undisclosed number of employees today in North America. HPE spokeswoman… Read More
In a move that emphasizes hybrid private-public cloud computing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has sold some of its “non-core” software assets to Micro Focus, a U.K.-based software company, in a transaction worth… Read More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is undergoing another management and organizational shift as the company seeks to find its place in the cloud-driven world dominated by Amazon, Microsoft and others. Long-time Seattleite Bill Hilf, the… Read More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today acknowledged the growing popularity of containerized software, saying it will bundle Docker Engine with its servers and will provide varied forms of support for Docker. The emphasis on Docker is… Read More