Those helping to evolve tech in the enterprise must maintain a willingness to learn and grow, whether it’s a developer or a chief executive officer. However, that does not mean a developer, for instance, has to learn each new programming language released. Rather, it means they must remain adaptable to any new situation thrown their way. ...

With an upsurge in companies studying genomic data comes the possible prevention and cures of life-threatening diseases, such as cancer. Often times, however, this data is not actually owned and controlled by the person contributing the trend’s most valuable asset. One company is working to analyze customer data while keeping it in the hands of ...

Imagine a physical map of the world. There is a key with cardinal directions, paths, land boundaries, and perhaps even flow lines for the oceans. Now picture how a map from the year 1400 might look. The United States of America and Mexico, for example, are referred to by names such as “New France” or ...

Among the many announcements from last week’s Google Cloud Next event was a noteworthy update to Google LLC’s BigQuery, adding machine learning capabilities to the SQL data warehousing tool. The addition, dubbed BigQuery ML, makes it easier for developers to work in the perks of machine learning without having to export data from BigQuery to a separate engine, ...

Oracle Corp. has been known by many as a top provider of databases for years. But now the company could be facing some opposition from Google’s newest database technology, Cloud Spanner. Telecommunications companies are looking to have the same power and scalability as Oracle while shifting away from paying tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to ...

As cloud computing has taken the business world by storm over the past few years, both security risks and safeguards have diversified to curb data breaches and protect consumer interests. Now, security responsibilities are being assigned to web developers, whose main focus has historically been scaling software applications, not necessarily security. For the evolving world of ...

Cisco Systems Inc. and NetApp Inc. are turning their FlexPod technology, a pre-validated data center platform, into a vertical application. The move comes as the healthcare industry’s demands continue to increase for improved infrastructures, better latencies, and better performances, according to Arun Garg (pictured), director of product management for the Converged Infrastructure Group at NetApp Inc. ...

Cisco System Inc. has rebranded Cisco Virtual Managed Services as Managed Services Accelerator, or MSX. The rebrand is to better reflect the product’s function and value: helping service providers develop and deliver multiple cloud-managed services supporting multi-tenancy and multi-vendor, according to R. Wayne Ogozaly, cloud data center architect at Cisco Systems Inc. “We’re able to go from service ...

Cloud computing offers extensive flexibility in how businesses can transform, modernize and move around data. However, if the underlying technology — the storage — doesn’t work, the whole thing falls apart, according to Eric Herzog (pictured), chief marketing officer and vice president of worldwide storage channels at IBM Corp. “What we’ve done at IBM is we have ...

Passing the decade mark, non-profit group Girls in Tech Inc.’s focus on the engagement, education, and empowerment of women in technology is just as relevant today as it was in 2007, according to Sandy Carter (pictured, right), vice president of enterprise workloads at Amazon Web Services Inc. and chairman of the board at Girls in Tech. “It’s so ...