RSA Security LLC President Rohit Ghai delivered his opening keynote at the RSA Conference in San Francisco today with a surprisingly optimistic view of the trouble-plagued cybersecurity industry. “Cybersecurity is getting better, not worse,” Ghai (pictured) told the audience. After a pregnant silence, he added, “Folks, I’m not kidding!” You might expect a seller of ...

Are information technology executives prepared to accept that data stored in the cloud will be 75 percent secure? That’s one of the central questions that emerged today on the first day of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. A report released by McAfee Inc. today found that one in four organizations surveyed, based on a ...

The processing demands for a video content service like Netflix Inc. are almost unimaginable. A consumer audience of over 109 million subscribers enjoys 125 million hours of TV and movie content via the online subscriber service every single day. That places great demand on the company’s data ingestion pipeline and stream processing engines, which must ...

In the complicated world of debugging modern software, metric and log-based tools only go so far. A small team of 25 engineers is hard at work inside a three-year-old startup company to improve viewable insight for event-driven problems in network systems. “We are an observability platform to help people find the unknown unknowns,” said Christine ...

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 ...