As people around the world compile information on the spread of coronavirus, real-time data takes on special meaning. Snowflake Inc. has created built-in optimizations for Starschema Ltd., a data company that has been providing information for users to track the movement of the virus around the globe. That information is in turn continually updated and reported ...

Doctors are generally more concerned about patients than petabytes, which is why Cerner Corp. provides the medical community with health information-technology solutions. The goal is to make the systems experience for health practitioners as seamless as possible by leveraging tools that can spot potential network problems before they impact the user. “It’s important for an entire ...

Many online users may not realize it, but when a web page is opened on a mobile or desktop device and an advertisement appears, it’s the result of a fast-paced, sophisticated auction process that happens quicker than the blink of an eye. One of the leading auction firms facilitating that process is The Trade Desk, ...

While data privacy has gotten the attention of legislators in recent years, enforcement of new laws seemed to lag. From the General Data Protection Regulation to the California Consumer Privacy Act, regulatory bodies have certainly been taking action against any irresponsible use of consumer data. Yet while the enforcement of those laws may not have been widely felt ...

Vertica, an analytic database management software company and a division of Micro Focus International PLC, kicked off its virtual Big Data Conference today after a four-year hiatus. In his keynote remarks, Colin Mahony, Vertica’s senior vice president and general manager, provided details of the firm’s latest 10.0 release and announced a partnership with Google LLC, according ...

At the Open Source Summit in San Diego last summer, a representative from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation enthusiastically declared that open-source software was entering its “golden age.” This raises two questions: What will that “golden age” look like, and how will open source deal with its success? The evidence for open-source popularity is hard to dispute. ...

Within the past month, two organizations released reports documenting why having a cloud data protection strategy will be increasingly critical in the near future. The “2020 Thales Data Threat Report,” with analysis by IDC Research Inc., revealed that organizations are reaching a tipping point when it comes to storing and securing data in the cloud. ...

The list of concerns around the use of artificial intelligence seems to grow with every passing week. Issues around bias, the use of AI for deepfake videos and audio, misinformation, governmental surveillance, security and failure of the technology to properly identify the simplest of objects have created a cacophony of concern about the technology’s long-term future. One software ...

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. When Pure Storage Inc. began to get signals from its contacts in China that a virus was spreading throughout the country and shutting down plants, the all-flash data storage hardware and software provider began taking steps to minimize the impact to its supply chain. As the coronavirus ...

Ellie Mae Inc. bills itself as the “leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry,” but there is a lot more to its technology story. The software company, which processes more than 35% of U.S. mortgage applications, has emerged as the corporate “electronic Mae” in the financial world. Unlike Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, ...