Technology entrepreneur Marc Andreessen once famously declared that software will eat the world. Joseph Jacks (pictured), founder and general partner of OSS Capital, has a different twist on Andreessen’s opinion: He believes open-source software will simply eat everything. Developments in open source over the course of 2018 alone could lead some to agree with Jacks’ point. In ...

Fei-Fei Li is a world-renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence, having risen to become head of Stanford University’s AI Lab and the chief scientist for AI at Google Cloud. But when Google LLC began an internal debate last year over how to publicly discuss its AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, ...

In the ongoing soap opera that is the cryptocurrency revolution, entrepreneurs have been trying to jump multiple hurdles, like Olympic sprinters heading down a long track. Getting the blockchain to scale up and figuring out how to turn real assets into tokens without winding up in jail are just a couple of the many obstacles ...

If you can’t beat them, work with them. That’s one clear message coming from the Money 20/20 USA conference in Las Vegas this week as representatives from large financial institutions rubbed shoulders with fintech startup founders in an effort to sort through the future of money. One prime example: Monday’s news that major financial player ...

Most people today don’t think twice about putting their hard-earned dollars into a bank. Yet, there is a growing sense of unease for users in the global cryptocurrency community that the platforms for storing tokens and various digital assets are about as safe as the mattress in an upstairs bedroom. The concern stems from a ...

As another tumultuous year in technology begins to wind down, it would be difficult to make any predictions for the coming year without focusing on the single major topic in the enterprise world: cloud computing. Will enterprise models be public, private or multicloud? What role will containers play? And how will key drivers such as ...

From the mammoth AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to Terminal D of the DFW International Airport, HKS Inc. architects has been designing landmark structures for 80 years. A key element of any building is its foundation, and for the architectural firm’s information technology group, data protection is a critical part of its contribution to the ...

Standing on the Commvault Go stage this week in Nashville, Tennessee, Al Bunte (pictured), chief operating officer of Commvault Systems Inc. described how traditional scripts were no longer helpful in finding data needed to run the enterprise. “It leads to what I call the WTF moment,” said Bunte during his keynote remarks. As the audience began to murmur, ...

On Wednesday, Micron Technology Inc. declared its intention to invest $100 million in startup firms working on artificial intelligence. The move is in keeping with a trend toward providing the technology needed for what Wikibon analyst David Floyer (@dfloyer) describes as “matrix applications,” fast-growing technology, such as internet of things devices, virtual and artificial reality, ...

In their keynote presentation at Commvault GO on Wednesday, the top two executives from Commvault Systems Inc. presented a view of the enterprise tech industry that focused more on attaining desired results than new outcomes. It’s a key distinction offered by Commvault’s Chief Executive Officer Robert  “Bob” Hammer and Chief Operating Officer Al Bunte, because today’s multicloud world ...