Amazon Web Services Inc. is not only infusing its own tools with machine learning capabilities, the cloud giant is also providing technology for developers, scientists and engineers to run and manage thousands of complex machine learning workloads at the same time. An example can be found in how Ampersand Inc., a data-driven TV advertising sales ...

With approximately $3 trillion in enterprise spend running through its Business Spend Management platform, Coupa Software Inc. makes a compelling case for digital transformation and data insight. The company leveraged its Coupa Inspire event in Las Vegas last week to announce an initiative for community-based spending benchmarks using artificial intelligence tools, dashboard support for activities ...

The public sector is moving boldly into the cloud-native future. It’s one thing to employ open source for streaming movies or ordering meals from the convenience of mobile apps. It’s a wholly different proposition when open source drives the military’s F-16 fighter jet, a $64 million marvel flying 1,300 miles per hour at 50,000 feet. ...

Cancer is a leading cause of death among children ages one to 14. Some 10,470 children under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and more than 1,000 will likely die from it. Leaders in the Boston-area technology industry are coming together for an event in June to address pediatric cancer. Today, ...

Startups are serving up plenty of options when it comes to more effective data platform solutions. An ecosystem of newly founded companies has developed around the cloud-native portfolio of Amazon Web Services Inc., and this is fueling the creation of innovative offerings for the data as code movement. Novel approaches to data governance, data lakes ...

In an 1892 collection of Sherlock Holmes detective stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of “the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime,” in which the canine did nothing when a crime was committed. “That was the curious incident,” Holmes said. The absence of significant cyberattacks against Ukraine by Russia during the current war ...

The use of genomics for drug discovery and personalized treatment has allowed scientists to develop more targeted therapies. It has also created enormous quantities of data. One human genome sequence produces approximately 200 gigabytes of raw data, and 100 million sequenced genomes will ultimately account for 20 billion gigabytes. Cloud computing has become an important ...

Two years of a global pandemic brought an acceleration of businesses to the cloud, followed by another important wave of digital transformation. The move to the cloud has also been accompanied by a need to leverage data even more effectively in the enterprise. Cloud provider Amazon Web Services Inc. is in prime position to observe ...

After years of hearing “it’s coming” from numerous industry vendors, 5G is finally arriving for consumers and enterprises alike. With Cisco’s entry into private 5G, the networking giant is seeking to gain a foothold in a 5G infrastructure market that grew 39% in 2021, according to Gartner Inc. In the original 1984 “Ghostbusters” film, the ghost-catching ...

For many years, the database market was a staid, sleepy part of the information technology landscape, occupied by a few large companies that generated infrequent innovation. Times have changed. Oracle Corp.’s recent announcement of enhancements for its MySQL HeatWave database marked the third time the company has added new capabilities to the offering in just ...