Kathryn Buford

As a scholar, social entrepreneur, and consultant, Kathryn has led and consulted on projects for The Embassy of Jamaica, Americorps, BBC, Sony Entertainment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and various small businesses, creative agencies, nonprofits and media brands. Her writings and commentary have appeared in publications like BBC, GOOD, CNBC and Live Unchained -- her former blog (of 6 years) for women and creatives across the African Diaspora. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park with concentrations in social theory and social and cultural entrepreneurship.

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Tech’s best stories for social good: 2019 in review

At its best, technology doesn’t just make society more efficient and economically competitive. It also helps make the world better. Unprecedented steps, such as Google’s 1 Billion Initiative, reflect a continuing and growing trend that links technology with positive social impact. Increasing “tech for good” is paralleled by a broader societal trend that connects business and investing with positive ...

Inside Dataiku’s data-science, future-proof platform

At the risk of becoming irrelevant, many legacy companies are making greater efforts to harness cloud-based technology. Dataiku is a data-science platform that provides a collaborative environment for data scientists and business analysts to design and launch data reports and predictive machine learning models. Whether companies are “born in the cloud” or have been around ...

How automated reasoning is making enterprise operations more secure

Automated reasoning is a subfield of artificial intelligence that is as essential and advantageous as AI itself. Amazon Web Services Inc. is optimizing its use of automated reasoning to improve data security and enterprise use. “One of the powerful things about automated reasoning, [is that] it doesn’t need data, or logs, or who has accessed ...

Saildrone optimizes AWS to crunch massive amounts of ocean data

The ocean is essential to human livelihood, but oceanographers have not had sophisticated technology to understand its vastness. Building entirely on AWS infrastructure, Saildrone Inc. is gathering massive amounts of data to help organizations like tee National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company’s unique technology, known as “saildrones,” are ...

Navigating the new data sprawl in a multicloud world

“This is not your father’s data ecosystem” is the idea that cloud customers and big providers are still understanding and navigating the emerging world of computing. The days of data-in-a-box are gone. Now, customers are tasked with cobbling together different cloud services to meet their overall needs. “It’s a horror, right? … What’s happening with data is it’s ...
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Finding headroom to lead the next generation of storage

Those that fly under the radar are the ones flying the fastest. The rise of storage service provider Infinidat Inc. makes it seem that simple. The organization claims technology at the price point of hard drives with the performance capabilities of solid state media, DRAM, and flash. Deploying such services at scale makes Infinidat a stand-out in ...

Data security is still everyone’s responsibility

As cloud computing has become more expansive and complex, so has the world of hackers. Threats to the cloud have become even more prevalent and difficult to detect. Within just one month, during September 2019, at least 57 malware apps generated around 15 million unique installations on Google Play, according to the “Sophos 2020 Threat ...

Edge compute creates exciting possibilities for emerging technology

Edge computing provides groundbreaking innovations to enterprise cloud organizations, including nearly instant code transfer, reduced latency, and enhanced performance. The lightning speed of edge compute is due to the placement of the platform. Unlike public cloud, edge compute is placed as close as possible to the point of interaction with humans, electronics, and various connected devices. Edge compute becomes more and ...
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Trust is money in the bank, but most companies are leaving it on the table

For large technology companies, the success playbook has definitively changed. It’s not enough that these businesses win; how they win matters more. Unethical practices cost a company in many ways. A significant, but tragically underestimated cost, is damaged consumer trust.  “And so, when the CEO sits there, I have to believe he feels the pain of the ...

From dirty data to healthy companies: SiSense CEO shares the surprising benefit and bottom line of Big Data

Big Data analytics skeptics like analyst Rob Enderle suggest that companies too often choose a Big Data strategy simply because the competition does the same. “The sad reality is that most firms selling and buying are focused on the technology, not the problem,” he says. “If you don’t understand the problem that you are trying to ...