If there is a single image that sums up what can be expected in consumer technology over the coming year, it appeared barely three hours into the press conference cycle Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: Steve Koenig, senior director of market research at the Consumer Technology Association, flashed an image on a ballroom ...

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a non-profit genomics organization, built one of the world’s first end-to-end medicine programs with the mission to diagnose rare diseases. The Institute’s work demands a data-driven information technology infrastructure that can handle the genomics applications and algorithms needed for accelerated research. HudsonAlpha relies on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. to provide ...

When the dust settled following a flurry of announcements from the HPE Discover EU conference in Spain last November, customers and analysts were left with a clearer understanding over how Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was going to answer questions about its future direction. The conversation begins and ends with data, specifically the applications needed to ...

It’s often a common theme in the tech world that the rich get richer. Amazon.com Inc., an already successful online merchandiser, starts a cloud business (Amazon Web Service Inc.) that becomes an enterprise colossus. Apple Inc., a household name in personal computers, decides to enter the smartphone space and ends up poised to become the ...

For centuries, modern medicine has grappled with the problem of finding the right drug treatment for the correct disease. While incremental progress is made every year, the lag time and expense of bringing a drug successfully to market has frustrated doctors, scientists and patients. In search of a potential solution to this problem, one startup ...

Two seconds. Sometimes, that’s all it takes to make a difference in the competitive cruise line business where booking volume fuels profits and growth. Which is why Carnival Cruise Line, a division of Carnival Corp., spends a considerable amount of time monitoring network performance and resolving issues fast. “If our home page loads in five ...

Last year, Accenture Plc mistakenly allowed four Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 databases containing customer information and confidential application program interface data to be exposed to public download. Fortunately, the exposure was caught in September and the assets were secured, but the incident was a sharp reminder that the cloud carries cybersecurity risks of its own. ...

When Fortinet Inc. recently announced a broad set of solutions for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers, the latest integrations gave the network security company the largest breadth of security applications within the AWS Marketplace. The news was part of Fortinet’s cloud-based approach to security, which included sandboxing capabilities for the first time on the AWS ...

The avalanche of data currently flowing through the enterprise world has created its own vocabulary. Categories of size are now necessary to explain how information technology systems handle massive amounts of information. In an effort to challenge conventional thinking around how file storage is handled, one company has branded itself as WekaIO Inc., named after ...

A glance at the portfolio of companies for the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Greylock Partners pretty much says it all. With a focus on startups and growth stage businesses, Greylock has successfully parlayed investments in areas of technology that have spawned some of the industry’s major players, including Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Red ...