The cloud is a stepping to stone to the Industrial Internet of Things. This is vital, because sensors and cloud computing can offer an instant response at the point of interaction; closing the sale, fixing a machine before it breaks or smoothing out a process to run more efficiently.  However, not even the cloud’s power ...

Technology is complex, and becoming even more so. It used to be that a company could get by with just a few smart people in their tech department. Now, creating and managing tech solutions on an enterprise scale is beyond the power of even the most talented people. As such, industry giants and smaller players ...

For some time, Google Inc. has been whispering of rolling out their own enterprise cloud solutions, but few companies had reason to choose them over the competition. To make up for this slow start, Google reached out in strategic partnership to other companies who could bring a unique perspective to the cloud. One of those ...

Medicine is a complex field. So complex that any given person can’t know more than a fraction of what’s going on. Keeping up with the latest discoveries is impossible. Machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence offer a new way of looking at medicine and a great power to automate medical tasks. At the ...

Reality and the digital world are coming together. Cheap sensors, combined with the Internet of Things and big data processing, allow a company to monitor equipment, product, environment, and more. The end result is instant reaction at the point of interaction. This is a radical change in how business operates, according to Suresh Acharya (pictured), head of ...

Technology is a wiggly beast. Every system and application has its own strengths, but few are designed to work together. To get the most from their tech infrastructure, companies must run a patchwork of solutions, every one demanding its own environment. Kubernetes, an open-source system for managing containerized applications, helps to tame this unruly herd by ...

The world has changed since the days of the old datacenter. Now, companies are moving their storage and compute to the cloud. However, most companies see little need to throw everything into the cloud at once. Rather, they find it prudent to migrate a small step at a time as applications and storage needs require, ...

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix Inc. has had one heck of a year. Bolstered by an initial public offering in fall 2016, it has gone from a company of hundreds of  employees to thousands, producing north of $1 billion in revenue. This growth has been powered by the rise of cloud computing and extensive partnerships across the ...

For some time now, Google Inc. has been the underdog of the cloud world. Although it has great expertise in running online services, some companies have found Google’s products difficult to use and its business models mercurial, but a just-announced partnership with SAP could put the Google Cloud Platform on more user-friendly terms. “The reaction [to the SAP-Google partnership] is ...

The tech world stands at the bottom of a great waterfall. All around, data comes down upon businesses in a flood, coursing from smartphones, sensors and computers across the globe. Collecting and using this torrent of data as it streams past is a challenge that still has no good answers. Business is not prepared for ...