Today’s privacy-conscious environment presents mounting challenges for enterprise data processing infrastructure. The confluence of legislation and consumer sentiment is pressing both digital natives and transforming enterprises to reshape their customer data strategies to embed data privacy in their operations. In reaction, enterprises are reorienting how they collect and process customer data to optimize around consent, ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $7.5 million in seed funding. It’s pitching a “user-first” web browser security offering that’s designed to prevent malware infections and prevent so-called “phishing” attacks that result in data loss and compromised passwords. Today’s funding round was led by Glilot Capital Partners and Kmehin ...

Given the rapid growth that robotic process automation leader UiPath Inc. has shown over the last few years, it’s no wonder that the small robotics process automation pond isn’t enough for the company to swim in. Instead, it wants to be the big fish in the expanding enterprise automation lake. I covered last year’s Forward ...

When artificial intelligence augments or even replaces human decisions, it amplifies good and bad outcomes alike. There are numerous risks and potential harms created by AI systems, including bias and discrimination, financial or reputational loss, lack of transparency and explainability, or invasions of security and privacy. Responsible AI enables the right outcomes by resolving dilemmas rooted ...

Historically, VMware Inc.‘s VMworld conference was one of the big three enterprise tech conferences, along with the RSA Conference and AWS re:Invent, that was large enough to transcend its primary sponsor, thus becoming one of the must-attend conferences of the year. In contrast, this week VMware hosted the newly renamed VMware Explore conference – about one-third ...

The precise direction of VMware Inc.’s future is unknown, given the planned Broadcom Inc. acquisition, but one thing is clear: The subject of what Broadcom Chief Executive Hock E. Tan plans will not be the main focus of the agenda at the upcoming VMware Explore event next week in San Francisco. We believe that despite ...

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s oft-quoted prediction that “software is eating the world” is borne out by Forrester Research Inc.’s latest global software industry forecast. Inflationary pressures, higher interest rates and geopolitical turmoil are expected to have little impact on a market for infrastructure and application software that should exceed $400 billion by 2023. That reflects ...

Cybersecurity professionals packed the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas this past week for the annual Black Hat USA confab, largely discarding their masks as they thronged into pre-COVID-style crowds. Security vendors large and small plied their wares, giving enterprise security professionals plenty of products to add to their cyber shopping list. Although many ...

Hyperscale cloud providers are increasingly making headlines with the launch of new “industry cloud” platforms. Industry clouds platforms create value for enterprises by bringing together traditionally separately purchased cloud services in a pre-integrated, but adaptable way. Industry clouds offer not just technical but also business capabilities that are specifically relevant to identified vertical industries. Leaders ...

Sustainable business is a strategy that incorporates environmental, social and governance factors into decision-making, and it is becoming an increasingly important component of business strategy. In fact, in a recent Gartner survey, chief executives identified environmental sustainability as a top 10 business priority for the first time in a decade. Technology is an essential part ...