Commander and NASA astronaut Dr. Peggy Whitson broke a record last week for logging more time in space than any other astronaut in U.S. history. A few days after speaking with President Trump via phone, she added another milestone by live streaming with Sam Blackman (pictured, left), co-founder and chief executive officer of AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web ...

The media and entertainment industries are not immune to the digital transformation. In fact, these industries are facing two data challenges: data collection and data storage. As digital technology produces Ultra High Definition assets and as the number of new outlets for people to consume entertainment increase, there is a need to develop standards for ...

As the world becomes more connected, through technology and social media, neighborhoods are becoming disconnected. A recent report cited that neighborly bonds are declining, noting that about one-third of Americans say they have never interacted with their neighbors. The report also indicates that even though technology and social media are connecting people, Americans are more ...

The enterprise is ready to move into the container world, where the modularized virtualization method eases the deploying and running of software apps in the cloud. Dealing with legacy systems and a lack of simplicity has been the main issue in getting there. This week at DockerCon17 in Austin, Texas, Docker Inc. announced that help is on ...

Understanding Apache Flink, an open-source stream processing framework, requires a fresh take on data processing. Flink goes beyond the capabilities of the last generation of stream processors by enabling new types of applications and microservices, said Jamie Grier (pictured), director of applications engineering at data Artisans GmbH. “Stream processors in the past have been oriented for analytics alone. ...

Apache has been leading the way for many big data trends, with data processing tools Apache Hadoop and Spark having helped the enterprise turn data into capital. As connected devices and machine learning are becoming more pervasive, the key to success is real-time data streaming from bound or unbound sources. Apache Flink manages this type ...

Software-Defined Networking has finally arrived, says Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and the networking industry will never be the same. The pioneer of software-defined networking, the concept of connecting computers through software instead of dedicated hardware, joined Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and guest host Scott Raynovich (@rayno) of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during ...

There is an old adage in computer science: “Garbage in; garbage out.” This statement is more relevant today than ever before, as artificial intelligence, bots and machine learning technology advance through the enterprise. Referring to the term learned from her father, Sandy Carter (pictured), chief executive officer at Silicon Blitz, explained the rationale for diversity in ...

Deploying or managing software applications can be a challenge for many information technology departments across the enterprise who are trying to keep up with the rapid pace of technology. As organizations move business apps to the cloud, usually employing hybrid solutions, they seek quick, reliable and consistent methods of deployment regardless of existing infrastructure. Container ...

The path to digital transformation is full of potholes for much of the enterprise. The industry-wide issues at hand are hundreds of billions of dollars of legacy equipment and the time it takes to get a project accomplished. Most importantly, one of the largest problems is handling the explosion of data across the enterprise and determining who ...