Going into VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas this week, industry analysts were wondering how VMware Inc. would expand its cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., jointly announced a year ago. They didn’t have to wait long. On Monday, AWS revealed that it would bring its Relational Database Service, or RDS, to VMware. “This is ...

Out of meltdown comes opportunity. In the aftermath of the financial crisis that gripped the world a decade ago, one of the outcomes was that banks began to dictate strict limits on consumer loans and obtaining funds became about as easy as finding a taxi in rush hour during a downpour. Enter peer-to-peer lending. As the ...

With the many technology tools available in the digital age, it would seem impossible to miss the mark on customer engagement. Social media platforms, data analytics, and sophisticated messaging all combine to deliver a powerful connection. How can a company blunder? Tiffani Bova (pictured, right), global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce.com Inc., has ...

By today’s highly interactive standards, the earliest web pages were a pretty dull affair. In the 1990s world of Web 1.0, pages were static without much in the way of video, sound or transformative graphics. The era of Web 2.0 ushered in user-generated content and an explosion of social platforms, coupled with vastly improved technology that made ...

It’s shaping up to be a “Black August” for the digital token world. The cyptocurrency market lost $43 billion over five days this month. Is it time to panic? “The insiders are somewhat scared or saying they’ve seen this movie before,” said John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during this week’s Global ...

Asked to name one of the nations’ historic centers for the internet’s growth, many people would likely single out Silicon Valley. Yet, a small suburban area of Virginia, formerly the home of gravel pits and dairy farms, occupies its own place in the tech story. Tysons Corner, Virginia, is where Steve Case worked to get ...

There were more than 546,000 open computing jobs in the U.S. and only 49,000 computer science students graduated into the workforce last year, according to Code.org. By any definition, that’s a skills gap, and Amazon Web Services Inc. has partnered with a prominent national training organization to do something about it. The nonprofit organization Project Lead the ...

How important is the stability of the internet to the world? All of a sudden, the onetime repository for cat videos and cookie recipes has become critically important, because the stakes are infinitely higher than they were a decade ago. Yet a growing communications gap between the technology community and U.S. policy makers is raising ...

When the blockchain delivered encrypted ledgers a decade ago, the world’s largest financial institutions seemed interested in the technology driving the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but were hardly motivated to build a business around it. Things are different now. Global giant Mastercard International Inc. represents a prominent example. In the space of the past nine months, the credit and debit card ...

In the heat of the desert summer, when the annual cybersecurity circus known as Black Hat comes to Las Vegas, no industry or technology is safe. Flaws are found, vulnerabilities are identified, fixes are issued (or not) and life in the digital world goes perilously onward. This week’s Black Hat USA 2018 gathering was no ...