The centerpiece of the second day at IBM Corp.’s major gathering in Las Vegas this week was an address by Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM, who methodically outlined a vision for the company based on a theme of “Putting Smarter to Work.” The focus was on IBM’s intelligent software and data ...

Upon its founding in 1992, NetApp Inc.’s original business model was based on selling Unix workgroup filers to software design teams. From there, the company branched into becoming a leading network-attached storage provider. Now, the company’s website promotes itself as the “Data authority in the hybrid cloud.” This is a company that has learned to evolve ...

One well-known global shoe manufacturer had a real-time problem. Its highly identifiable, brand-name shoes were being diverted in shipments around the world and sold outside of channels in gray markets. But tracking the shipments took weeks, and by the time an investigation had been completed, the shoes were long gone. Working with the real-time application ...

The kickoff of this week’s inaugural IBM Think event in Las Vegas, Nevada, represents a new approach by the technology company now well into its second century of operation. For years, IBM Corp. held smaller, niche events focused on various technical areas of the business. Now, the company is following the model used by Salesforce.com Inc., ...

One of the challenges confronting the data science industry is finding ways to make sophisticated analytics tools easier to use across cloud and data center platforms within multiple industries. The data layout matters, and Intel Corp. has issued the latest version of its Math Kernel Library in an effort to help developers leverage instruction sets ...

The technology behind cyberattacks is becoming more sophisticated, and the recent frenzy surrounding cryptocurrencies is driving criminals to become more adept at taking over vulnerable computer systems. Those were two of the key findings from the newly released “Threat Landscape Report,” a summary of security intelligence from Fortinet Inc. The quarterly report is based on ...

Recent Wikibon research has shown that a compute model that keeps as much data as possible at the edge can save enterprise customers more money than a process that ships data to the cloud (Wikibon is owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE). Industrial internet of things startup FogHorn Systems Inc. has set out to prove that ...

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. bills itself as the world’s leading live entertainment company, with 86 million fans using its services in more than 40 countries. The company, which was formed with the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. in 2010, selected Amazon Web Services Inc. as its cloud provider last year, moving the ...

When it comes to the representation of women in the technology industry, the numbers continue to be startlingly bad. The number of females in the science, technology, engineering or math fields has been dropping since the 1980s. In 2016, only about a quarter of the computing workforce were women, and less than 10 percent were women of color. In 2015, women in ...

Peter Drucker, an early pioneer and leader in the field of management education, famously wrote that “the purpose of business is to create a customer.” His 20th century business philosophy has carried into the digital age with a new twist. Drucker might be more tempted to say that the purpose of business today is to ...