As a Microsoft Most Valued Partner, Jared Rhodes (pictured), an independent consultant at QiMata Technologies LLC, spends a lot of his time looking for the right mobile, cloud and edge computing solutions for his clients, which include firms in the oil and gas industry, facility security and driverless cars. The common link among most of ...

This month marks the 50-year anniversary of the world premiere of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a film that captured a futuristic world where computers have the intelligence to control destiny. A half-century later, computers may not yet be in position to control our lives completely, but they are poised to make the very movie that ...

While a kaleidoscope creates beautiful and colorful patterns, its images are complex, change continuously, and can be often hard to decipher. It therefore makes sense that when four of the technology industry’s leading research analysts decided to form their own firm last year, they chose to name the new venture after the optical instrument. “We ...

When data needs a place to stay, Storj Labs Inc. has the welcome mat waiting. Just as Airbnb Inc. has transformed the hospitality industry by drawing on a global network of citizens with spare rooms for rent, or Uber Technologies Inc. has revolutionized transportation through a network of cars and drivers with extra time on their hands, ...

In the terminology of enterprise computing, there are plenty of ways to describe data. There’s hot data that is accessed via fast storage, cold data obtained through slower storage, and real-time data, generally viewed as information delivered immediately after collection. Now WANdisco Inc. has provided another addition to the lexicon: live data. “This is more ...

When Del Monte Foods Inc. began to consider migrating its entire information technology operation to the cloud on Amazon Web Services Inc., it was looking at a time frame of at least seven months to make the move. By the time Del Monte had completed its migration plan, in partnership with Accenture, that window had ...

Before the 9,000 attendees at the AWS Summit in San Francisco could find their seats at the conference’s morning keynote session today, Amazon Web Services Inc. had already announced the addition of image publishing service Shutterfly Inc. and vehicle services firm Cox Automotive Inc. to its expanding list of cloud customers. “They are going all-in on ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off its one-day summit in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday with keynote presentations that covered a number of cloud services, but the company’s focus was clearly on SageMaker, designed to create and deploy machine learning algorithms. AWS announced multiple updates to SageMaker at the event, including a “local mode,” which ...

When Pivotal Software Inc. partnered with Google and VMware Inc. in 2017 to create a managed Kubernetes offering called Pivotal Container Service, or PKS, it was only a matter of time before the initial beta release progressed to general availability. That time came in February, when it was announced that the service would now enable ...

During one social event at a data conference in San Jose, California, last month, Murthy Mathiprakasam (pictured) pulled up a chair and began to chat with the information technology executive of a large insurance company, an Informatica Corp. customer. The IT executive was blunt: He was preparing to remove an entire portfolio of cloud technologies ...