In 2011, the best game show player in the world lost to a computer, and the world has seemingly not been the same since. The player was Ken Jennings (pictured, third from right) who had amassed a 74- game winning streak on the “Jeopardy!” TV quiz show, a feat which made him the best trivia ...

It may be hard to imagine now, but there was a time not so long ago that video conferencing required expensive, complicated equipment, a ton of bandwidth… and patience. Lots and lots of patience. That’s because the video feed was often unreliable, it was difficult to join from multiple locations and the resulting experience was ...

The cloud native wave is coming. Capgemini SE has reported that while only 15% of new enterprise applications are cloud native, adoption will more than double by next year. Its potential as a cloud-based, elastic and resilient service delivery model has appeal in the enterprise information technology world. But cloud native is also still in ...

Samsung is open for business-to-business. There were plenty of new consumer gadgets and hardware releases as part of the Samsung Developer Conference this week in San Jose, California, but the company’s decision to devote the entire second-day keynote session for its business-to-business initiatives was a clear indication that this will be an important market for the ...

Venture funded Lacework Inc. emerged from stealth mode in 2017 with the industry’s first zero-touch cloud workload security platform. As it has grown adoption of its services in companies large and small, Lacework has seen many of its customers struggle with the challenge of melding sound security practices within a fast-moving DevOps culture. “Every company ...

As Cisco Systems Inc. continues to build relations with enterprise developers, particularly through its growing DevNet program, the company is paying close attention to what that audience needs. This focus can be seen in how Cisco has enhanced its CloudCenter Suite. Since January, the company made the platform available globally in a software-as-a-service deployment and ...

Dell EMC’s Data Domain, the purpose-built, backup array leader according to IDC Research Inc., has been rebranded and retooled as a bigger, faster system. Now part of the recently launched PowerProtect DD Series, the technology has been enhanced for speed, security, efficiency, and multicloud data protection. “With the improvements that we’ve made with instant access ...

Less than 10% … that’s how many artificial-intelligence test projects are estimated to be deployed into full-scale production in enterprise environments, according to a recent report from the International Institute for Analytics. There are a number of reasons for this surprisingly small amount, including an overwhelming amount of data and the lack of easy-to-use tools ...

There are not many tech startups that emerge from stealth mode with a chairman who formerly ran one of the leading networking companies in the world or whose founders accounted for literally billions in value for the chairman’s previous business. Yet that’s indeed the story behind Pensando Systems Inc., a programmable, edge-accelerated platform that emerged from ...

One company transports people in 600 cities around the world, and the other connects 2.37 billion monthly active users online through social media. Both may soon be found at the center of a significant transformation of the global financial industry. Ridesharing provider Uber Technologies Inc. and social media giant Facebook Inc. each made news in ...