It’s no surprise that the blockchain community is moving rapidly with new innovations on an almost weekly basis. What’s surprising is that U.S. regulators have so far declined to step in, while other countries move boldly ahead with their own blockchain initiatives. There was both optimism over new uses for the distributed ledger and nervous ...

More than 90 percent of the world’s searches are driven by Google LLC’s cloud infrastructure. The company rakes in $32 billion of search advertising revenue for the U.S. market, which is nearly $30 billion more than its closest competitor. What’s more, it’s probably the world’s largest cloud company in terms of aggregate resources and has contributed an ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced new features which increase the computing tasks that can be performed with the Snowball Edge appliance for data migration between connected devices, and also boost the level of security. Specifically, a local version of AWS’ web-scale configuration tool Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, can now run directly on the machine. “You can ...

The enterprise world has online advertising to thank for MongoDB Inc. The open-source database platform provider got its start in 2007 when the team behind DoubleClick grew frustrated with the woeful ability of databases to serve 400,000 ads per second. MongoDB’s founders built a general purpose database platform that turned out to be able to handle ...

Among the many countries of the world, there are a group of nations — Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland — that are considered neutral, without entry into military alliances or the establishment of any army bases. In the war-like battles for cloud supremacy, BitRock Inc. (Bitnami) is Switzerland. The company, which specializes in the automated packaging and deployment of ...

Next year, the Mayfield Fund LLC will celebrate a milestone not commonly seen in Silicon Valley: It will celebrate 50 years in the investment business, having been founded well before most of the largest technology companies today became market drivers. The company has parlayed its nearly half-century of experience, with investments in firms such as Genentech Inc. ...

When Mario Armstrong (pictured) talks about the struggle to achieve his dreams, he draws from a wellspring of experience. Ten years ago, the Emmy Award-winning talk show host and his wife, Nicole, had negative bank balances, maxed-out credit cards and groceries bought by their parents. Fast forward to the present, and the picture looks dramatically ...

When the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement approximately one year ago, VMware Inc. Chief Executive Office Pat Gelsinger issued a message to his employees that reiterated his company’s commitment to sustainability. That commitment includes achieving carbon neutral emissions for its operations by 2020 and driving the use of 100-percent renewable energy. The company’s interest ...

As businesses increasingly rely on data to make critical decisions, the accuracy of that information becomes vitally important. Yet, the process for verification has been haphazard at best. Alation Inc., a company specializing is collaborative data cataloging, has introduced TrustCheck, a new tool that will visually put a stamp of approval on trustworthy sources or ...

When Cohesity Inc. announced last month that it had received a $250 million investment from SoftBank Corp.’s Vision Fund, the news was noteworthy for two reasons. It was the largest investment in a U.S. enterprise startup in nearly two years, and it was only the second time SoftBank had chosen to invest in the data ...