IBM Corp.’s flagship technology conference Think in San Francisco attracted 30,000 people this week and, by midafternoon on Tuesday, it appeared that every single one of them was trying to enter the convention hall where Chief Executive Ginni Rometty was scheduled to deliver a major address. After getting a closeup view of the traffic-snarled streets and lines that snaked ...

Locking the front door offers a measure of protection, but it’s the key that provides ultimate control. In the world of enterprise computing, data encryption is an important step to guard against network attacks and theft, but the real test involves how security keys are stored and managed. IBM Corp. has recently introduced Cloud Hyper ...

When a professional sports team strikes gold with three championship wins in the past four years, a lot of things can change for the better. As the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association prepare to close out their decades-long tenancy of an arena in Oakland, California, and move into the Chase Center in San Francisco ...

The opening of IBM Think in San Francisco on Monday provided analysts with an opportunity to assess a list of topics expected to be addressed at the weeklong company event. For many industry observers, the question of the impact the acquisition of Red Hat Inc. for $34 billion in 2018 will have IBM Corp.’s business moving forward is ...

Six years ago, digital trends were commonly summarized under SMAC, which stood for social, media, analytics and cloud. Accenture PLC has captured the current digital evolution as DARQ Power, represented by distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, extended reality, and quantum computing. These latest trends, which exemplify what Accenture has termed the key trends characterizing the ...

Ransomware is so 2018. As online criminals have realized that ransomware didn’t yield a recurring revenue stream, they have turned instead to cryptojacking, the takeover of computer networks by massive botnets to mine cryptocurrency. This land grab of networks has proven difficult to stop or even detect because cryptomining code can work in the background ...

In the near future, calls into a customer contact center used for “training purposes” will no longer involve people in seats listening to an instructor. The training will be for machine-learning models, and the participants will be computers. This is the vision that Five9 Inc., a provider of software for contact centers, sees for the ...

When Chris Williams (pictured), enterprise cloud consultant at GreenPages Technology Solutions, was awarded the vExpert Cloud Specialist designation by VMware Inc. in 2017, he expressed his passion for learning new skills and sharing his knowledge with others. That passion has carried over into a number of advanced cloud computing areas, amplified by his dialogue with ...

Many industries have been transformed by a shift to the cloud, and the hair-styling profession is no exception. PS Lifestyle, whose business transformed hair salons in assisted senior-living facilities into professional centers and spas, faced a need to convert from a manual process to a more automated one. Cloud platforms provided a major part of ...

Is the system administrator an endangered species, about to join company with the African wild dog, Bornean orangutan, and the black-footed ferret? One experienced systems administrator doesn’t think so, but it will require refocusing on the major changes taking place in the information technology industry. Automation and the rise of developer operations are just a couple ...