Even digital transformation rookies know that big data is the guiding principal of digital business — or was, at least. Now the big data noise has largely harmonized into a signal: artificial intelligence. If AI is the evolution of big data, do businesses now just follow the AI trail straight to the digital, data-driven promised ...

For anyone who’s been hiding in an underground bomb shelter: Cloud is more than infrastructure commodities like compute and storage. Advanced services built on top of clouds — like serverless functions for app development — far from just providing a landing for businesses, can possibly transform them. At last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, Sandra Stonham (pictured, right), ...

Crawl-paced .govs are good places for Silicon Valley investors to sink dollars they never want to see again, right? Maybe — five or 10 years ago. Today, venture capitalists are actively seeking to expand their portfolios in government verticals, according to Teresa Carlson (pictured), vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services Inc. There’s been a change in ...

Organ donors have saved lives for years. Now anyone can help to fight heart disease, the leading cause of death globally, by donating their data to researchers at the American Heart Association. The AHA has established the Precision Medicine Platform for its researchers to analyze vast data on heart disease and stroke. “What’s so awesome ...

Many information technology departments today won’t commit exclusively to on-premises data centers, private or public cloud infrastructure. It can be tough for vendors to cook up the mishmash of services they require. Can smart partnering and cross-compatible interfaces help companies like Veeam Software Inc. be everything to everyone? “Everything that Veeam does and develops is generally ...

The basic framework for artificial intelligence has existed since the 1940s, and organizations have been innovating atop AI advancements ever since. In recent years, big data and advanced deep learning models have pushed AI into the spotlight like never before. Will these new technological ingredients finally produce the intelligent machines envisaged in science fiction, or are current AI trends just the same wine in ...

The so-called single pane of glass for managing multicloud environments remains largely an information technology admin’s fantasy. Whether or not it ever materializes is anyone’s guess. In the meantime, could a holistic enterprise cloud operating system be the next best thing? “The enterprise doesn’t have a good operating system,” said Binny Gill (pictured, left), chief architect ...

Think securing a boatload of venture capital guarantees a startup success? Obviously, some funding is essential; what may not be obvious is that too much cash can bury the company its supposed to buoy. “Money rarely makes the company,” said Sunil Dhaliwal (pictured, right), general partner at Amplify Partners. Generous early investments cannot shore up a company ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is the undisputed king of cloud, but competitor Google Cloud Platform is steadily winning developer fans. Do those developers have the clout to tip the buying decisions of businesses in GCP’s favor? “If you’re going to attack Amazon right now, you can’t do the breadth of services,” said Jerry Chen (pictured), partner at ...

Child trafficking criminals use technology to operate under the radar online. One nonprofit aptly decided to make technology the main weapon in its fight to stop them. “I think a lot of times, people look at social issues from the impact angle — which we do,” said Julie Cordua (pictured, right), chief executive officer of Thorn: Digital ...