The model with most technologies that emerged over the years has been for technology companies to develop a technology and then take it to market, educate businesses about how it can increase their profits, cut expenditures, and make them more efficient. Blockchain represents an interesting paradigm shift, according to Joyce Shen, director of emerging tech ...

Last year Amazon revealed its plan to introduce a service deploying drones to deliver packages to consumers in 30 minutes. While many found the idea high tech and innovative, others wondered at the technical issues involved: How would they keep the drones from crashing into each other? Would it require the company to hire air ...

As the data mining rush really gets going, it feels as though we all are awaiting the big breakthrough — we just don’t yet know how it will look or how we’ll arrive there. Yet the data scientists remain optimistic, continually promising us, “There’s gold in them hills.” To help move us closer to that ...

What’s not to like about the cloud? Businesses can export architectural, maintenance and operational concerns to a cloud service provider for a reasonable subscription fee and cut their IT expenditures in the bargain. Well, there’s a small wrinkle that has been there since the beginning: security. Though many cloud service providers have made improvements in ...

The OCP Summit 2016 has been a bustling affair, with heavy hitters like Goldman Sachs, Facebook and even Google showing up to get the scoop on Open Compute innovation. Stu Miniman and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, assessed the summit regarding the overall tone and highlights. Miniman said he had ...

Self-driving cars, real-time video collaboration, data decision-making algorithms — the technologies and applications exciting businesses and consumers all have lightening fast memory as their backbone. But the reality, according to Eric Endebrock, VP of storage solutions marketing at Micron Technology, Inc., is that flash memory and storage has yet to penetrate the industry — only about five percent ...

Everyone wants to move to the cloud, but surprisingly few know exactly why. They’ve heard things about pay-as-you-go, efficiency, the ability to spin up and spin down applications — but is it right for them? All of it or some of it? To answer those questions, Mike Schutz, GM of cloud platform marketing at Microsoft, ...

These days placing a call from a cellular phone in public is looking like a pretty old-fashioned way to get in touch. Technology is growing telecom into a multi-armed communication wizard, combining more and more ways to send messages and media between business collaborators and friends. Stephen Brough, global director of business development and sales ...

Americans have long cherished freedom of the press and the open competition of views in what’s called the marketplace of ideas. But, if you think our system is as open and democratic as possible, Jeff Fairbanks, global head of AV and media technology at Bloomberg LP, wants you to know you ain’t seen nothing yet. ...

“Digitize or die” seems to be the ultimatum facing businesses these days, as competitors race for the technological tools that can give them an edge. Many find themselves wondering where to begin the transition. According to Rowan Trollope, SVP & GM of the collaboration technology group at Cisco Systems, Inc., the first order of business ...