Big data management platform Apache Spark wants to extend its streaming capabilities to serverless application development via DataBricks Inc., a cloud-based data service founded by Spark’s creators. But will this make it harder to wield data at the Internet of Things’ edge? “I’d like to get a sense for how you optimize Spark deployments in a radically ...

With event-by-event data streaming and serverless application development, has the Apache Spark open-source community readied real-time, continuous applications for enterprise use? “They definitely turned up the volume on what they can do with continuous apps,” said George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) (pictured, right) in a discussion with David Goad (@davidgoad) (pictured, left) and James Kobielus (@jameskobielus), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...

Companies may want to hire talented people with a range of educational and work experience for a number of reasons. Some say that diverse and even dissonant opinions help formulate broadly appealing advertisements, for example. But old habits in the human resources department die hard. Many companies hire predictably from the same talent pool year ...

The new home of the Golden State Warriors NBA team in San Francisco, California, is shaping up to be everything one would expect from a stadium on the edge of Silicon Valley. The Warriors franchise has tapped Accenture PLC to help wire the new Chase Center with state-of-the-art technology. “We’ve been working with them to ...

Separating new-tech hype from tangible value is rarely as easy as reading vendors’ press releases. Accenture PLC operates seven labs around the globe to dig up the facts for itself. Technologies currently under investigation are blockchain, quantum computing and artificial intelligence. “I’ve lived a lot of winters of artificial intelligence; now I think, finally, maybe ...

Many are still in doubt of Amazon.com Inc.’s meandering drone plans. Meanwhile, a much smaller company called Airware Inc. has taken off with enterprise drone analytics. “You’re seeing a huge uptake in what drones can do,” said Yvonne Wassenaar (pictured), chief executive officer of Airware. A few years ago, an Airware customer could not find a drone to ...

Innovation labs are a trendy way for both startups and legacy companies to display a finger on the pulse of new tech. Accenture PLC has been in the game for 30 years with its Accenture Labs network, yielded much more than geek cred, according to Paul Daugherty (pictured), chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture. “We now have ...

Augmented reality is branching out from gaming graphics into high-return business use cases. Its power to render data and images in 3D can fast-forward product development in enterprises, said Joe Mikhail (pictured), chief revenue officer at Meta Co., which develops AR products geared mainly toward enterprises. “It basically overlays digital data and virtual objects in the real ...

Businesses inside and outside technology are learning what happens when cloud takes infrastructure out of the picture. Infor Inc. opted to build its business applications on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud to makes its developers’ jobs easier. They work smarter now, differentiating up the stack with industry-specific suites of cloud applications for enterprises. Is this drilling ...

The gender gap in information technology is an open case, with a range of researchers offering various explanations for the unequal numbers of men and women in the field. Perhaps one way to gauge how the small number of women in tech wound up there and what the industry might learn from them is to ...