Technology businesses are discovering a powerful truth: building custom code is no fun. It takes time, it’s a distraction from working on core products and it’s likely someone out there already did it better. The real solution is for a company to integrate mature and tested products into their own systems, but that can be ...

Few things unite people in this modern world like the shared hatred of smartphone battery life. Batteries have fallen far behind the technology they’re meant to power, and while solutions are on the way, perhaps better batteries aren’t really the answer. One interesting angle is wireless power. Radio waves are, after all, just energy. Shouldn’t ...

Every business starts somewhere, even under the dark shade of industry giants. Sensibill Inc. is one such startup, offering business-level billing and receipt management services for banks. In the land of giants in the digital transformation, what lessons did Sensibill learn to compete in this market? “We built our system bank tough,” said Jamie Alexander (pictured), ...

Data is a business’ most precious asset, and in this data-driven world, any company that isn’t collecting, storing and using data will be devoured alive by those who are. Given that, the issue of storing all that data becomes a prime concern. Costs on data storage are dropping, but one bottleneck remains; the cost of ...

There’s a strange sickness in the tech world. It loves to reinvent the wheel. Yet, if the real goal is shipping product, there’s no reason to build up from raw code. In development, abstraction layers let people build on pre-made code, so they don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Now, infrastructure and cloud development are keying ...

Horrible things lurk on the internet, and they all want to live inside a company’s computer network. Viruses, malware, ransomware and more are out there, and all good people wage war against these threats. Malwarebytes Inc. is one of the companies on the front lines of this battlefield. It is also in a unique position, ...

Buying powerful technology is expensive. The most powerful tools are considered enterprise-grade because only large businesses can afford them. However, more and more companies are discovering that renting powerful technology is cheap. Cloud computing allows these smaller businesses to wield enterprise-level tools at a fraction of the cost, and that’s unleashing untold innovation, according to Gaurav Dhillon (pictured), chairman ...

The future of the tech world is too complex for any one company to navigate alone. Industry giant Microsoft Corp. knows this better than most. It has reached out to other companies and other ecosystems to help drive its future innovations. One of those companies is Hortonworks Inc., a big data enterprise software business. Together, they’re looking ...

Faster is better. That’s as true in big data as anywhere else in business. Unfortunately, data is heavy, slow and expensive to move. The most efficient play is to process data at the source, but that’s not always possible. A more practical solution is to cut travel times and bandwidth costs by dropping the processing ...

Data is like water — heavy, expensive to move and countless ways to store it. Working efficiently with data means moving the processing to where the data lives, but if a company’s information comes hundreds or thousands of sources, that can be tricky. One solution is called a data lake, a massive collection of data ...