Dynamic pricing, the sale of goods or services based on multiple factors, including real-time customer demand, is becoming more widely used across a range of large industries. What’s driving adoption is both the complexity of many businesses (try booking an airline ticket or renting a car these days) and the advancement of artificial intelligence, which ...

George Washington may be known as the first president of the United States, but today he’s a recent new hire at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That’s because George is actually a software robot, designed and implemented by UiPath Inc. to interact with information technology systems and perform business processes. And when George needs ...

The term “self-driving car” has worked its way into such widespread use that it’s become a part of the popular lexicon. Now the “self-driving cloud” may soon become a commonly used term as well. ZeroStack Inc. employs intelligent software to deliver a self-driving private cloud platform as a way to make it easier for developers ...

Every enterprise today has data, but how much of it is really needed on a daily basis? Chances are good that the answer is not much, yet the challenge of managing all of that data in an effective, unobtrusive and cost-efficient manner is an ongoing concern. That’s the business opportunity for Komprise Inc., a data ...

Early last year, a man walked into a hardware store in Oregon, picked up a basket, and began placing a number of expensive items into it. At first glance, that alone would not have been enough to raise suspicion. However, before finishing the purchase process at a self-service kiosk, the man picked up his items ...

Data gathered from personal browsing habits is sold by brokers every second. Ride-hailing drivers must periodically resubmit their photos and license numbers in order to work, information that ultimately gets hacked. People at a border crossing into the U.S. must provide account passwords before gaining entry, placing extensive personal information in the hands of unknown ...

Robotics has moved boldly into new fields, with machines now folding clothes, delivering towels, and offering advice on the best Italian restaurant near a hotel. Now a Silicon Valley company has created a robotics business around an area of growing importance for many organizations: site security. “We take the good things that humans do, which ...

Nokia’s Nuage Networks closed out 2017 with a flurry of new customer announcements, additional evidence that the software-defined network (or SDN) venture was gaining traction in the enterprise information technology world. Nuage added Fujitsu Ltd., Telus Corp. and China Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd. as customers just in the past six months, following previous “wins” earlier in the year ...

A research study conducted by Veritas Technologies LLC in 2017 found that an alarming 69 percent of organizations erroneously believed that cloud service providers were responsible for client data protection and compliance with privacy rules. That gap in understanding, combined with an enterprise-wide shift to multicloud environments, is putting more pressure on data management vendors ...

Some called it a bubble, others called it a bust. Whatever label was attributed to the collapse of dotcom companies in the period between 2000 and 2002, it was a bad time to be the chief executive officer of a fledgling technology business. Yet, that’s the position that John McAdam (pictured), then the chief executive officer at ...