The software-defined wide area network represents a technology solution that is quietly working its way into the enterprise picture. Once viewed as a valuable connectivity solution for organizations with multiple branches, SD-WAN is gaining traction within the enterprise for its ability to manage applications delivery in the multicloud world. “It is a combination of factors ...

With the release of Kubernetes 1.10 in March, developers and users familiar with the project will have plenty to discuss when the community gathers in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 through 4 for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference. The first update in 2018 revealed a stronger focus on security, networking and storage, themes that will ...

It’s probably a safe bet that when Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison wakes up in the morning, he doesn’t converse with Alexa. The company’s founder spent more than an hour Tuesday during a presentation at the company’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, alternately trumpeting the merits of Oracle’s Autonomous Database Cloud and ...

Artificial intelligence holds tremendous promise, has been a major disappointment or is a threat that will derail civilization as we know it. All of those views, in fact, were apparent during discussions this week at EmTech Digital 2018, the MIT Technology Review conference held this week in San Francisco. Which characterization is right depends a great deal ...

Picture a room of information technology professionals where they are asked a simple question: How many have been working on a data science model that still has not gone into production after nine months? Then imagine that more than 90 percent raised their hands. That is what’s known as a real business opportunity. “It all ...

Salim Ismail (pictured) has a vision for the organization of the future, and it doesn’t look anything like what exists today. Centralized authority will become distributed, closed decision-making will move toward openness and transparency, and predictability will transition into flexibility and rapid change. “We now have the ability to scale an organization structure as fast ...

Walk into any National Football League stadium on game day and the scene is similar in many ways. There are cheerleaders, music, a very large scoreboard, vendors hawking food and drink in the aisles, and two helmet-clad teams doing battle on the field. Yet, what many people may not realize is that the game taking place in ...

The U.S. dollar accounts for two-thirds (63.5 percent) of global reserves held in central banks around the world, according to the latest data from the International Monetary Fund. It is essentially the de facto global currency and has been since the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. However, the expanding ecosystem of digital currencies and growing adoption of ...

When Satoshi Nakamoto released his seminal whitepaper on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called bitcoin in 2008, he also outlined the underlying technology to operate the fledgling digital currency. That platform — the blockchain — has since evolved into a major global force for powering transactions on a distributed ledger database. IBM Corp.’s focus on ...

Last year, the National Basketball Association implemented a decision to allow sponsors to place small logo patches on player uniforms. It was the first time that the NBA had permitted jersey advertising, and it led to a key question: How would sponsors know whether their advertising investment was worth the multi-million-dollar cost? One company recently ...