A seat on the board of directors is usually the reward that comes after scaling the management ladder and emerging on top. But in a world where regular business operations are undergoing a digital transformation to remain competitive in a data-driven economy, taking the unusual path from the board to day-to-day field operations could just be the most ...

It is a gathering storm of technological advances: artificial intelligence, network virtualization, 5G, containerized applications and neural processing units. As new technology enables greater connectivity, the race toward a smart society based on the “internet of things” gathers speed. Thanks to open-source collaboration, the journey has become a cooperative one rather than an arms race. Software developers understand that ...

The words “London financier” conjure a picture of gentlemen in bowler hats and umbrellas walking through the gray streets of the City, a pink-sheeted copy of the Financial Times tucked securely under one arm. Finalists for the 2019 Citrix Customer Innovation Award, Schroders PLC are tossing the fuddy-duddy image and redefining the role of the finance professional. ...

From Ada Lovelace to Grace Hopper, women have played an important part in the development of computing. Female executives such as Ginni Rometty and Meg Whitman have opened the doors of the boardroom; and women-led start-ups abound. Yet despite these high-profile successes, the overall percentage of women and minorities in tech is still ridiculously low. One place ...

Winning the Nobel Prize for physics isn’t a goal most people can reach. But thanks to Google Cloud and Kubernetes, performing the same experiments as award-winning scientists is now possible. Open access to data from the CERN Large Hadron Collider experiments that led to discovery of the Higgs boson elementary particle in 2012 means that proving ...

Yesterday’s static big data lakes have become today’s dynamic data assets. But while data is the fuel that fires the digital economy; it can’t go it alone. Without artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring it to life, data would still be stuck back in the swamp, lurking in the cloud, and gathering dust in ...

Riding the virtualization wave to a record billion-dollar year put Veeam Software Inc. in the spotlight of the $15-billion cloud data management market. Act one of the company’s play seems to have concluded, with Veeam the market leader in data management for small and medium companies. Now we enter act two, where Veeam attempts to ...

It was heralded as a shopping revolution. No more dragging the kids around on weekly errands and standing in long lines. Forget driving from place to place, parking and walking into store after store after store. Searching for that elusive item is no longer a day-long trek. Just pull out that smartphone; click, and wait ...

Every year for the past 20 years, virtualization giant VMware Inc. has invited engineers to submit their most creative projects for their yearly research and development event, VMware Radio. Out of a thousand submissions, only 150 to 200 meet the exacting standards for presentation. 2019’s projects cover a broad swath of topics — from technology near ...

The ambulance arrives at the scene of an accident. A critically injured person lies bleeding in the road. EMT personnel must make treatment decisions, and fast. But all they know at this point is the patient’s identification. Is she allergic to any drugs? Does she have a history of heart-attack or stroke? What other medications ...