Hewlett - Packard Enterprise Co. has developed the HPE Universal IoT Platform , designed to collect and analyse data collected by many different Internet - connected devices . HP Enterprise hopes to set itself apart from the competition posed by Apple Inc. , General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. by converting the collected data into consistent formats for easier analysis and allowing operation on most servers , including customer - run servers , machine servers or public cloud services . HP is the latest in a number of investors in IoT while Cisco and Oracle Corp. both have further investments in the field .
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. has introduced the HPE Universal IoT Platform, designed to collect and analyse data collected by many different network-connected devices. HP Enterprise hopes to set itself apart from the competition posed by Amazon.com Inc., General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. by converting the collected data into consistent formats for easier analysis and allowing operation on most servers, including customer-run servers, machine servers or public cloud services. HP is the latest in a number of investors in IoT while Cisco and Oracle Corp. both plan further investments in the technology.