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Silicon Valley called out by keynoters at Women Transforming Technology event, say analysts
While tech conferences often revolve around granular hardware and software discussions, the Women Transforming Technology conference is taking a different tack, with speakers talking about social issues that affect Silicon Valley and the world. On-site at the event in Palo Alto, California, Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, left) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...
Artificial intelligence is the new infrastructure for connected devices, says VC
Bridging the gaps from the Internet of Things concepts to real-world use cases are sobering up those companies with high hopes for connected devices. Can Artificial Intelligence fill in those gaps and streamline users’ IoT experience? Christina Ku (pictured), director at NTT Docomo Ventures Inc., says her firm has its sights set on software and services startups. ...
Software doesn’t have the juice to break network bottleneck, says GM
Companies waiting for cloud service providers to make them more agile shouldn’t hold their breath, according to technology executive Tom Joyce (pictured, right). He told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, that agility has become a buzzword for good reason. “If I can reconfigure everything and build a new service and I can ...
Can SAP and Apple patch each other’s holes to makeover enterprise apps?
SAP SE and Apple Inc. have both been synonymous with software applications for years. But only now, with a much touted partnership, are they moving to truly revolutionize apps in the enterprise as SAP opens its cloud platform to iOS developers, sweetening the pot with specialized tools for the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence interests. Where Apple falters, ...
As companies convert to cloud, why has security become the ‘department of no’?
All these cutting-edge, cloud-based solutions are going to help everyone crunch workloads in no time and turn larger profits — as soon as they can get them past security. Companies pursuing a cloud-first model are hitting a snafu: “They view their IT folks, their security folks, as the ‘department of no,'” said Amit Sinha (pictured), executive vice president ...
How companies can tackle security and compliance for multi-cloud workloads
As if managing multi-cloud workloads were not difficult enough, security threats and tightening compliance regulations are adding even more to the pot. Can companies keep it from boiling over? “Yes, there is hope,” said Kapil Raina (pictured), vice president of product marketing at HyTrust Inc. He said that HyTrust specialized in simplifying security and compliance for multi-cloud ...
Oops, hackers can use AI and machine learning too. Now what?
There’s a catch in all the hurrah about businesses using AI and machine learning to secure data: Cybercriminals have them too, and they may be even better at using them. “It’s not a technology problem anymore,” said Rohit Ghai (pictured), president of RSA Security LLC. “All of the things like advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, all of ...
Tech-telecom alliance aims to solve the burning issue in IoT: security
“What about security?” is the burning question as the Internet of Things starts to transform entire industries. There is so much for all to lose and gain that even competitors are putting their heads together for the greater good. At the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, where more than 40,000 attendees meet to ...
‘It takes an ecosystem’ to secure the cloud, says security VP
The old way of securing data simply isn’t cutting it in the cloud. The irony is that the scale and complexity of enterprise cloud that give security staff nightmares might become the very tools for building better security on-prem, according to George Gerchow, vice president of security and compliance at Sumo Logic Inc. Gerchow told Jeff Frick ...
Will security staff get a helping hand from AI with automated ‘SecOps’?
Despite automated threat detection and protection, companies are still short on staff to actually deal with threats once they are found. Unless automation can pick up the slack, the skill gap will continue to leave companies vulnerable. That’s according to Muddu Sudhakar (pictured), senior vice president and general manager at ServiceNow Inc. “I think the area of threat detection, ...