Robert Herjavec (pictured) is known to most people as a “Shark Investor,” one of the stars on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank.” On the show, he and other figures from the world of business hear pitches from budding entrepreneurs and decide whether to invest in a startup enterprise. But what many people probably don’t ...

The competitive landscape for dominance in the data infrastructure field is similar to a car race on a wide stretch of straight open road. No one is especially worried about taking a corner too fast, because this is just a flat-out, pedal-to-the-metal blast to see who can bring the fastest storage performance to the enterprise ...

The opening day of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing attracted 18,000 attendees (a record turnout for the event), and included a number of women with inspiring stories. Among these were a former White House official, the previous leader of one of the largest public school systems in the nation and two pioneering technology ...

In the never-ending quest to add yet another candidate for the “Next Big Thing” technology list, drones are looking like a solid choice. For the first time, investment in drone companies exceeded $1 billion in 2017 and when the Federal Aviation Authority opened a commercial drone pilot licensing program late last year, 300 new operators ...

Despite a culture that promotes disruption, there are times when the technology industry finds itself in the spotlight for actions or positions that are not positive. When an internal Google memorandum that said that the firm’s attempt to create a more gender-balanced workforce was hurting the company leaked out, a public firestorm erupted and the writer ...

The tragic deaths and injuries in Las Vegas on Sunday evening overshadowed the NetApp, Inc. gathering scheduled to start in the resort city the next day, but postponed until Tuesday. “We can’t not address the massacre here that happened at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This is a time in history when we’re seeing a ...

When Cybric Inc. launched its new security platform last November, it offered a continuous security-as-a-service platform with a different take on addressing system vulnerabilities in the enterprise. Cybric’s approach was to automate checks at the code development level to build security into any new product before it could be deployed. The idea was to change the direction by trying ...

When it comes to making a list of major advances that have furthered the digital revolution, open-source software would likely be near the top. But open source has one drawback for developers. The documentation for how software and services were built, including licenses, is often contained in binaries that can be a challenge to manage ...

It’s become almost a daily headline in the news now. Equifax Inc. loses confidential information on 143 million Americans in cyberattack. Hackers compromise Deloitte LLP’s usernames and passwords. Whole Foods Market victimized in credit card breach. A steady drumbeat of bad news in online security has many people wondering now if the cyberworld will ever become safe. What’s ...

Is there any better example of the need for reliable “real-time data in motion” technology than a moving car? Automobiles today are computers on wheels, generating critical data such as geo-location and speed, in addition to information from multiple embedded devices and communicating it all back to the cloud. At the center of this real-time ...