A case could easily be made that Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration tool first introduced by Google LLC in 2014, was made for artificial intelligence. Support for large, complex environments? Check. Scalability? Kubernetes can automatically scale. Portability? The open-source tool can run in hybrid configurations of public and private instances. Support for traditional applications? Kubernetes helps ...

From the 17th to the 19th century, tall ships dominated the seas, fostering global trade and exploration. Some corporate leaders today believe that a similar era is underway, only this time the tall ships have been replaced by rocket ships. Expansion of low-Earth orbit through new generations of satellites, increased demand for space-based communication networks, ...

The opening of the TED AI conference in San Francisco this week featured a video composed by a single actor, wearing different costumes and adopting varying points of view about AI. Depending on the persona adopted by the actor, AI was either transformative, evil, helpful, addictive, climate-damaging, the future — or the end of the ...

The cloud-native ecosystem is shifting fast — and developers are at the center of that transformation. From Kubernetes to observability stacks, open-source projects are evolving from niche innovations to enterprise-scale infrastructure standards driving AI, security and automation. A mid-year snapshot from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation highlights just how quickly that evolution is happening. OpenTelemetry ...

Expectations for a quick resolution to customer support issues can vary in timeframe, but taking hours is not generally a good standard for cultivating client goodwill. At Smartsheet Inc., the journey from hours to minutes was a challenge until it settled on an artificial intelligence agent-driven solution. Smartsheet uses Agentforce from Salesforce Inc. to help ...

Before OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in 2022 and its explosion into the public’s consciousness, artificial intelligence was quietly being developed in research labs and discussed in scientific conferences. As much of the enterprise world’s attention has been currently focused on AI agents and massive expectations for reshaping enterprise production, a group of engineers and scientists has ...

As one of the biggest names in the food and beverage industry, PepsiCo Inc.’s snacks and drinks are enjoyed over one billion times each day across 200 countries. The complexity of running a business of that size requires a finely tuned balance between delivery logistics, store sales, customer engagement and new product launches. How does ...

Can artificial intelligence move from pilots to production at scale in the enterprise? This was the central question surrounding Salesforce Inc.’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco as the customer relationship management powerhouse sought to make it clear this week that its major bet on agentic AI would do exactly that. At a time when research ...

AI is becoming the rising tide that lifts a lot of boats, and the data storage industry is being carried along with the surge. Storage is moving from its past role as a background service, to the forefront of an enterprise data-platform strategy, and this is shaping the market response from major storage providers such as ...

A major shift in U.S. government sentiment toward cryptocurrencies combined with innovation from AI are making the stablecoin market an emerging force in the digital asset economy. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that crypto is having its “ChatGPT moment” and stablecoins are leading some of the largest companies in the world into programmable finance. Apple ...