After two straight weeks and a steady drumbeat of new product and service announcements during re:Invent 2020, Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off the third week of it’s three-week event by sitting back and taking a breath. Today’s keynote presentation by Werner Vogels (pictured), chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon.com Inc., was notable ...

Back in the 1990s, the casino industry unwillingly provided the seed capital to found what became one of the major providers of 3D computer-aided design software. SolidWorks Inc. got its start in 1993 thanks to capital and entrepreneurial initiative provided by Jon Hirschtick, an MIT graduate who was part of a team of students that ...

When his career as a fitness instructor and plans to open a workout studio were suddenly upended by a global pandemic, Jarred Gaines needed a restart. He found it this year through an Amazon Web Services Inc. retraining program. A few months ago, Gaines (pictured) enrolled in Per Scholas, an East Coast nonprofit that trains people for ...

The stated goal for Nationwide Inc., the Fortune 100 insurance services provider, is to “help protect families, businesses and futures.” Based on news released this month, Nationwide’s own business future will be in the cloud. On Thursday, Amazon Web Services Inc. announced that Nationwide had selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will move ...

Amazon Honeycode was only launched in beta form six months ago, but its own team members have rapidly embraced the promise of a fully managed service that allows customers to build powerful mobile and web applications without the need for any programming. “Among the Honeycode team itself, we use it for managing all of our ...

The announcement today that Arm Ltd. will move a substantial portion of its electronic design automation applications onto the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud platform is a move that bears watching for its future enterprise implications. That is because Arm’s reduced instruction set-based processor designs, already a mainstay in mobile devices, are poised to take on a large ...

One of the messages coming from nearly two weeks of announcements as part of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference is that artificial intelligence and machine learning are ready to abstract away a lot of manual work involved in moving data around the enterprise IT infrastructure. Two products unveiled by AWS in December showcase this ...

The current state of data in the medical field is akin to a tornado, a whirlwind of information that gathers material from a variety of sources and is remarkably difficult to control. This includes data from scribbled doctors’ notes, recorded audio and video via telemedicine, x-rays and images, wearable devices and healthcare applications. How to manage ...

Data has gravity, complexity and value. It also has pain points within most enterprises, and this is both a challenge and opportunity for Io-Tahoe LLC to adapt its own business alongside clients through automation. The company’s platform enables organizations to discover and search data across a wide range of repositories, including data warehouses, data lakes and traditional ...

Because venture capitalists are often early-stage investors in companies that occupy the leading edge of technology change, they are positioned to see new trends develop before the rest of the world. This can mean changes not just in the products and services being built for the future, but an entire paradigm shift in the technology ...