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It was a gutsy decision back in 2009. Video distribution pioneer Netflix Inc. was weighing its options on whether to stay with its traditional data center model or move its fledgling movie streaming service to public cloud provider Amazon Web Services Inc. …
Warba Bank confronts network security challenges in Middle East
Near the end of 2016, software-defined storage provider Nutanix Inc. added three veteran executives to its Europe, Middle East and Africa team. The company’s renewed focus on this emerging area of the global technology market is beginning to show results, at least in …
Experienced entrepreneurs bet cryptocurrency craze is more boom than bubble
Cryptocurrency is suddenly one of the most volatile and fast-moving areas in technology these days, so much so that seemingly no one can agree whether it’s a bubble or a bona fide boom. Investment firms are deluged with coin offering proposals at the …
Best of CES: Kika Tech’s Tami Zhu wants to put emotion into AI
Updated with Kika Tech Inc.’s Consumer Electronics Show product introduction and award: The development of artificial intelligence has followed a roller coaster path over nearly 50 years. First there was great promise in the early 1970s, followed by stagnation from 1974 to …
Car premiums that go down? HPE helps King Price drive unusual insurance model
When King Price Insurance Co. Ltd, a short-term insurance firm based in South Africa, opened its doors in 2012, the company had a noble goal to revolutionize the policy-writing industry. Its novel approach ran counter to the common model for car insurance, …
PTC, HPE bring digital twins to the intelligent edge
When it comes to the product development process, simulation is a big deal, and the ability to integrate simulation with real products in the design phase is even bigger. That’s why Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and its partner PTC Inc. are particularly …
Tech unites veterans, first responders in Team Rubicon disaster relief
When a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian city of Port-au-Prince in 2010, the world was appalled as scenes of dangerous conditions and unstable situations began to circulate around the globe. Galvanized by the need for help, two U.S. Marines assembled a …
Cisco consultants provide aspirin and vitamins for network health
As enterprise reliance on information technology systems continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the state of a network’s health at any given time becomes critical to routine functioning of the business. Are there frequent hiccups (downtime), feelings of sluggishness (latency), or …
CES 2018: Tech devices are ready to get personal with us
If there is a single image that sums up what can be expected in consumer technology over the coming year, it appeared barely three hours into the press conference cycle Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: Steve Koenig, senior director of …
HudsonAlpha’s developer-centric approach transforms IT operation
The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a non-profit genomics organization, built one of the world’s first end-to-end medicine programs with the mission to diagnose rare diseases. The Institute’s work demands a data-driven information technology infrastructure that can handle the genomics applications and algorithms …