The world runs on engines. Heavy machines grind to make goods, provide power and build cities. These machines represent a new space for software and sensor technology. Since industrial systems run at a huge scale, any gains in efficiency become a serious cost savings. Monitoring and controlling these machines through software is a growing business. ...

The medical field is complex, vast and ever-changing. But doctors are only human. There’s no way for doctors to keep up with the pace of new discoveries and treatments. One solution is to combine advances in computer capability with a doctor’s own experience to create a mobile diagnostic platform with the most cutting-edge information. To ...

Everyone wants to protect what’s important to them. While it’s not yet practical to point a camera at everything, simple ideas, combined with high technology, can come close. One such idea is the Stilla Motion, a device that can detect motion and distance and then respond by sending an alert to its owner. Placed in ...

The digital transformation of business leaves no one behind. While the effects of going digital are obvious in the tech world, other spaces also benefit from new technology. One of the most important is industry — the companies that produce goods and utility services like power and water. Industry relies on machines that operate on ...

Software is changing everything. Led by big data and new applications, there is a digital transformation sweeping through the worlds of tech and business. This transformation has also come to the realm of heavy industry, where mighty engines and massive turbines supply the fuel and resources civilization consumes every day. To better understand the transformation ...

Buried deep within the heart of the digital revolution is a hidden secret. This secret is open-source software. Open-source software has been key to the transformation of business because it is low-cost, often free, and easy for a young company to modify and deploy. Because of these strong points, open-source software has produced powerful technologies ...

Containers are a game-changer in enterprise software development. Being able to move applications through operating environments saves time and money. Even so, simply running applications isn’t the whole story. At scale, the cost to operate that software grows. Most businesses also maintain legacy systems that can’t support containers. Upgrading those systems is an unwelcome expense. ...

When a company’s business is software and support, they want to support a winner. Discovering those technologies and developers who are laying down the groundwork for the future is vital for companies who make their living through support and partnerships. Part of that new future is enterprise-level hybrid cloud services. The ecosystem around these technologies ...

Virtual infrastructure is changing the way IT and data centers operate. Why buy and configure boxes when you can do it all in software? This has sparked an industry in virtualized deployments, leading to new solutions for software-defined infrastructure. One of the companies in that space is Nutanix Inc., which has recently expanded and delivered ...

The trend in the tech world these days is making things simple. Simplicity is definitely needed, since today’s systems are bigger and more complex than ever. That extends to everything from storage, to virtualization, to security. This technology has to come together, and the departments deploying it must be able to react quickly to changes ...