Whoever said you can’t teach an old hound new tricks failed to get the message out to NetApp Inc. The legacy storage provider is pivoting to software-defined storage and data management, and it wants to run with Silicon Valley’s freshly founded bulls. It has not given up on serving long-time customers, but it throws the bulk ...

Businesses are aiming to digitally transform themselves in hopes of staying abreast of disruptive competition; the bullseye is applied artificial intelligence across a range of business processes. The tyranny of choice visited on them by vendors selling products for AI’s purpose leaves many unsure about what direction to take. Google became the richest company on earth ...

Data cataloging is emerging as one of the surest routes through the big data muddle in enterprises. Its powers lay in combining and collapsing steps that would otherwise run end-users ragged. “There are a lot of data catalog products out there, but our huge differentiator — one of them — is the fact that we ...

Big data analytics projects are flailing like asphyxiating tuna; some analysts claim the failure rate has soared to 85 percent. Could it be that the pile of software tools and formulas aren’t letting human ingenuity breathe? “I think that they’ve got to throw out the old playbook,” said Satyen Sangani (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer ...

The fake news annoyance is spinning into a full-throttle political nuisance. Hackers — state-sponsored and otherwise — are working to weaponize open-source tools and social media to spread misinformation and sway government elections. Facebook’s Russian hacking scandal was a preview of things to come, according to Dave Vellante (@dvellante, pictured, right), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...

Big data is getting the star treatment in many enterprises today. The problem is its lofty position in data lakes and highly secured vaults might put it above the reach of common people in business and analytics. How can they bring it down to terra firma for practical use? The shelves full of big data ...

There’s a wrong way and a right way to change a tire, scramble an egg, and erect a cryptocurrency business. For the latter — don’t rush it, and be sure it fills a yawning market demand, according to Al Burgio (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Fusechain Inc. “We’re seeing a new asset class. But ...

Cryptocurrency is awkwardly strung between mainstream acceptance and threats of regulatory killjoys for the digital currency market. How can startups and investors best play the crypto-token field as it continues shifting and shaking? “I am part idealist, but I’m also part capitalist and realist, where I understand the reality of the situation where I am ...

Let’s take stock of the state of technological advancement for a moment. We have self-driving cars, talking refrigerators and artificial intelligence better than doctors at predicting heart attacks. As for money? We have green paper bills with the faces of former presidents. Why hasn’t this changed? Many people feel money should be something physical that ...

Choke points in the capital markets are making fund seekers antsy for a quicker route to investor cash. Are cryptocurrency security tokens the route through the thicket of barriers to raising capital? They are, according to Trevor Koverko (pictured, left), chief executive officer of Polymath Inc. “This is kind of like light peaking through the ...