What is user identity in the cloud and multicloud world? With infrastructure and applications scattered about, it could conceivably get messy and fractured. But enterprise employees increasingly demand easy experiences that mirror those in the consumer realm. New bring-your-own-identity services might make the “forgot your password?” popup a thing of the past. “Organizations have been ...

Anybody who’s looked at their medical bills lately knows something deep in the machinery of the healthcare industry is broken. The U.S. has some of the highest drug prices in the world — high enough to prompt President Trump to declare that drug companies are “getting away with murder.” Silicon Valley is exporting cost-cutting solutions ...

Connected gaming lets players connect with each other and, perhaps, a game’s creators via a range of interactive media. The device might be a mobile phone, a PC, or a virtual reality headset, to name a few. The makers are pooling creative juices and technologies from open source and elsewhere to multiply players’ gaming pleasure. ...

Despite the popularity of cloud object storage, file storage’s more structured data repositories are still swinging it in the enterprise. Google Cloud Platform just moved to beef up its file options, striking up a bidirectional partnership with 26-year-old storage legacy NetApp Inc. to integrate each other’s services and provide customers flexible storage options. The story is ...

Google Cloud Platform is signaling hybrid-cloud readiness with its latest product announcements and partnerships. The state-of-the-art network its built over the years is coming in handy for tasks like hurling containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) from one environment to another. Google now turns to networking legacy Cisco Systems Inc. to bring its cloud ...

How does a business secure all of its digital data these days? It might be on-premises, in the cloud, or in containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). Is there a peephole through which to see all data assets and detect security vulnerabilities? It might be a tool that skips individual stops and goes straight ...

Bleeding-edge technologies, such as serverless computing and functions-as-a-service, might feel too experimental for many businesses. But if they look squarely at what these progressive tech solutions can accomplish, businesses might very well begin to address some of the tech-derived issues, such as server glut currently overwhelming company resources. Many businesses right now face a snafu that all but begs for serverless functions, according to Oren ...

Not every company has the safety net to move fast and break stuff  like Facebook. But they badly want to move fast with agile software deployment; can they do so and merely shake, scratch or scuff their stuff, then return it to like-new condition? A startup whose chief architect is none other than a Facebook ...

More and more businesses are pressed to find technologies that can hold and crunch massive data sets. A business specializing in geospatial data, including satellite imagery of the entire globe, will likely the feel the squeeze more than most. What lessons can they share with the rest of the business world on meeting unprecedented data demands? Descartes ...

What’s with all these speed bumps en route to big data monetization and artificial intelligence in the business world? Enterprises are hungry for it, and the cookware’s on the shelf, so where’s the steak? We asked a data and analytics adviser in the thick of the struggle to fill in the blanks. Where to start? ...