It’s been a bountiful fortnight for blockchain’s encrypted ledger methodologies — particularly blockchain security. Hosho Group Inc. held HoshoCon — the first conference devoted to blochchain and cryptocurrency security — in Las Vegas, Nevada. And Amberdata Inc. just announced a groundbreaking tool that automates blockchain security audits. “Our goal is to basically make it very ...

Something is missing in the swirl of glitter around blockchain and cryptocurrency: a hard, gristly conversation about security risks. Hosho Group Inc. wants to strike up this conversation without spoiling the party. In Nevada last week, the cryptosecurity provider brought together a group of technical and nontechnical people to exchange ideas and learn substantive skills to make blockchain ...

Who doesn’t like cloud-based plug-and-play software as a service applications? Nobody. And who doesn’t have a flawless internet connection they can depend on to always run them at maximum speed with no hiccups? Well, a lot of folks don’t, it turns out. This is where internet-overlay wide-area networking for optimized SaaS delivery comes in. It’s ...

A business has petabytes of data on initial customers, repeat customers, customers they lost, and customers that returned after trying a different brand. Obviously, that business is able to analyze the data and tweak its offerings to attract and retain more customers, develop artificial-intelligence engines that close more sales, and other cool stuff, right? Not if those ...

With a new breed of software applications emerging, spanning machine learning, artificial intelligence and the internet of things, it can be difficult for businesses to keep pace. Developing and running these novel and highly complex apps is trying. Having a single place to manage and protect the precious data involved can help reign in the tumult. ...

We keep hearing that autonomous cars are going to take over the roads any day now. Yet, how many of us can see ourselves driving hands-free down a city street at rush hour, bumper-to-bumper with other drivers paying no attention to what’s happening around them? We asked some pros in next-gen automotive to explain the ...

What’s a bigger headache than choosing the right on-premises, private-cloud or public-cloud home for decades worth of applications? Managing different data backup and recovery solutions for all of them once they are settled is a solid contender. A single solution that consolidates and simplifies the process can keep the tears of frustration from falling. Migrating workloads ...

The processing demands of artificial-intelligence and deep-learning applications are sparking a renaissance in hardware development. Old commodity stuff isn’t cutting it, even with spanking-new software on top. Chip makers are now called upon to delver rip-sawing, purpose-made graphics processing units, and memory chips, etc., to provide the extra oomph. Applications like image recognition for medical ...

The time from conception to screaming under harsh, fluorescent delivery-room lights is getting shorter for startups. Initial coin offerings are laying tons of cryptocurrency in the hands of founders before they know what to do with it. What’s more is banks don’t quite know what to do with it either, from the security or insurance ...

Digital transformation has companies everywhere reassessing their relationship to data backup and protection. They’re asking hard questions like: Can you recover data at the pace of modern digital business? Do you work seamlessly across multiple on-premises and cloud environments? Can you do more than just sit there 99 percent of the time? “Industry data suggests ...