On the opening day of the Samsung Developers Conference in San Francisco, connected devices took center stage as the company announced the consolidation of its SmartThings, Samsung Connect and ARTIK services into one “internet of things”-branded label of SmartThings Cloud. The move on Wednesday demonstrates how the software as a service generation may now be ...

Just as oil propelled Standard Oil Co. Inc. to a position of dominant industrial power in the late 1800s, data is doing the same for a number of technology firms today. Half of consumer online spending in the U.S. is controlled by Amazon, a company that relies extensively on mining data so it knows what ...

French fries didn’t originate in France, Bombay duck is a fish, and catgut actually comes from sheep. To the list of life’s misnomers can be added serverless computing, because it still requires hardware to run. But that doesn’t diminish the fact that serverless is becoming an increasingly popular option in the world of information technology, ...

When it comes to making major progress in technology innovation, one of the limiting factors has been heat. Rapid advances in the microprocessor industry have fueled remarkable growth, yet chip makers constantly grapple with the demands of energy released at ridiculous speeds in absurdly small spaces. The storage industry has wrestled with the heat dilemma ...

What are the oldest technology companies still operating today? Before Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Oracle and Microsoft there was IBM, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard. General Electric goes all the way back to Thomas Edison in 1892. These are all household names to be sure, but there is one company on the “half a century and more” ...

The belief that “content is king” may have been codified into the collective consciousness in 1996 when none other than Microsoft Corp.’s Bill Gates wrote an essay by the same name. At the time, Gates believed that anything appearing on the internet would make a lot of money, but more than 20 years later, it’s ...

Late last month Dell EMC announced the Elastic Data Platform, designed to augment big data deployments with scalability and stronger controls around user access. The news was jointly released not just by Dell EMC, but through two of its key partners: BlueData Inc. and BlueTalon Inc. Such partner-driven solutions have become expected in enterprise computing — ...

Data science has made rapid advances in automated understanding of spoken or written text. It’s now possible to take mountains of data from customer feedback, for example, and gain high-level insight into whether a business might soon experience a retention problem. But a new challenge will involve training computers to achieve the same level of ...

In the technology world these days, when someone says that it’s time to shift left, they usually aren’t talking about lining up their friends for a selfie shot. Instead, shift left is an approach that places development tasks, such as monitoring, testing and automation, earlier in the digital workload lifecycle. With the recent introduction of ...

It’s like celebrating a birthday with a huge, nicely decorated cake, but the only view of it is one lonely slice. That’s the feeling that many companies have when trying to visualize and use large data sets in the enterprise. But one four-year-old startup is attracting customers by enabling big-picture views of big data without ...