Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is joining a crowded race to help companies get a leg up on one of tech’s hottest trends, the Internet of Things. The company on Tuesday introduced what it calls the HPE Universal IoT Platform, software designed to help manage many kinds of network-connected devices and collect and analyze the data they generate. It...
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.