Dealing with computers is a complex job. As companies go to the cloud, this job hasn’t gotten any easier. The complexity of a modern business information technology setup is a stumbling block for many companies. Because of this, IBM Corp. is developing new technologies to help smooth that path. “The trend we’re seeing is people ...

If you want to secure a computer, lock it in a safe and throw the safe in the ocean. If you want a computer system people actually use, there must be a way for them to access the system. This presents a security risk. While cybersecurity is good at making sure only the right people ...

There’s no such thing as a perfect cloud. While business as a whole is taking its first steps into the cloud, each company must find the specific clouds that serve its needs. Recently merged industry giant Dell EMC has taken a long look at how businesses use clouds. Although every company is different, Dell EMC ...

The security game never ends, and it never stays the same. Hackers, agents and malware are all adapting to hunt the weak points in every security system. Now, savvy cybersecurity experts look to protect not just the data centers, but also the users. “Attackers have recognized that it’s getting harder to directly attack the data ...

Artificial intelligence has been a hot buzzword for a while now, but AI applications are now making the leap from the lab to the boardroom. This change goes beyond dark boxes humming away in a server room. Soon, AI will touch every business application, according to Bob Griffin, chief executive officer of Ayasdi Inc. “The ...

Some say the mantra of every programmer who works on networked systems is ‘the client is the enemy,’ because the user’s client program simply cannot be trusted. But, now, Node.js, a JavaScript runtime based on Chrome’s V8 engine, allows developers to run JavaScript server-side in a controlled environment. Intel is working with the open-source community to ...

Where data processing is concerned, speed is life. Companies can ship off some workloads to batch processing, but they need to process the critical stuff in real-time while a customer or system interaction is happening. Not all companies have the resources to make this happen, however. That’s where big data company Confluent Inc. and distributed ...

It’s hard to appreciate just how large organizations can be until someone has to get all those departments and splintered businesses talking to each other. They need a common platform to share data. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., a company currently in a downsizing transition of its own, found that common platform in the open-source data management ...

It’s no secret that migrating to the cloud is hard. It’s even harder when a company must support legacy software applications because that means they need a hybrid cloud solution. As hybrid cloud plants one foot in the cloud, and one on-premises, it shares the complexities of both worlds. To succeed, companies need a partner who ...

Not every business is a tech company; most simply use technology to keep up in a changing market. Still, the digital revolution leaves no one behind, not even the staid educational sector. One example is Scholastic Corp., a company that has seen the need for digital transformation. “Scholastic is the world’s largest children’s book publisher ...