When the weeklong agenda at a tech conference includes a former president of the United States, the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. and a Grammy award-winning artist performing her hit song “Girl On Fire,” that’s heavy celebrity lifting. Yet the real star at Salesforce.com’s Inc.’s annual Dreamforce conference this week may actually turn out ...

Among members of the U.S. intelligence community, the sensitive data they handle could literally mean the difference between life or death for thousands of people. That may explain why a small startup called Immuta Inc. with 70 employees and $20 million in Series B funding is beginning to gain traction in the data-governance market. Founded ...

Thanks to artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technology, mirrors in retail stores are now making judgments about people reflected in the glass. Is that progress or a descent into digital apocalypse? This was a question recently pondered by Bob Friday (pictured, left), vice president and chief technology officer of Mist, a Juniper company, as he strolled ...

If there is a glue that binds two companies seeking to make advances in the hybrid computing space together, it is trust. Customers must trust the companies have the right solutions to solve complex issues that are part of the hybrid world today, and the tech providers have to trust that a partnership will yield ...

As a provider of industry-specific cloud and mobile software, Vlocity Inc. has learned what drives customer interest in today’s fast-paced digital world. Social media, cloud, mobile and analytics have emerged as the “Big Four” of digital transformation, according to Rip Gerber (pictured), chief marketing officer and chief innovation officer at Vlocity. “We’re about a decade in for ...

While the world is still waiting for flying cars, it’s proving just as hard to advance the cause of innovative vehicles with wheels still firmly planted on the ground. For a field that looked highly promising only a few years ago, autonomous driving has experienced a year of harsh realities. In just the last six ...

People don’t think twice about moving from room to room inside their own home because they own the entire structure. But what about moving across the vast virtual landscape of the internet, which is owned by no one entity and has reached over 6 billion indexed pages according to the latest statistics? For enterprises moving ...

Dell Technologies Inc. announced today the release of Dell EMC PowerOne, an autonomous infrastructure designed to make the deployment and management of information technology an easier process in the enterprise. With built-in intelligence, PowerOne can automate thousands of tasks and provide readily available resources with a few clicks. The all-in-one system will provide automation for Dell ...

The good news for software developers is that a cloud-native services delivery model is proving to be reliable and scalable by construction. However, it’s the construction part that still needs more work. In the second installment of a series of interviews with thought leaders around “Demystifying Cloud Native,” Dominik Tornow (pictured), principal systems engineer at Cisco ...

Seventy years after the first television remote control device was created, it has now become a conversational friend. When Comcast Corp. introduced a voice-activated remote called the XR11 in 2015, the intent was to provide TV viewers a way to more easily find their favorite shows. The nation’s largest cable TV provider soon found that ...