As millennials enter the workplace in growing numbers, an unflattering stereotype persists in the minds of incumbents: Generation Zuckerberg are selfie-snappers that value re-tweets and Instagram fame over the greater good. “I actually think that couldn’t be further from the truth,” said Adam Smiley Poswolsky, author of “The Quarter-Life Breakthrough.” According to research from IBM Corp. and others, ...

While there may be plenty for women in tech to gripe about, the Professional BusinessWomen of California Conference 2017 in San Francisco was no pity party. Organizers and speakers encouraged attendees to roll up their sleeves and be the change they wished to see in the industry. “We need to have the rubber hit the road; we ...

Data can only go so far in an enterprise without human experts who know how to wield it. Even rare and coveted data scientists may provide only half of the needed skillset, according to Ken Jacquier (pictured), Information Governance Practice, North America sales leader at IBM Corp. A new role that goes beyond algorithms and whips together ...

As if technical hurdles to making data fit for use weren’t challenging enough, line of business people within enterprises are often clueless about mapping a big data strategy. Is there a single word that can make all the pieces fall into place? Caitlin Lepech (pictured, right), communications and client engagement executive, Global Chief Data Office at ...

While some say Internet of Things data requires next-generation computing at the edge, others wonder why not just put it in a container and zip it around like an application? “Consider a world where you can just treat a database as a containerized thing and you can just move it from one piece of compute ...

Fields like advertising may have a problem attracting female talent right out of college, but even companies who’ve hired them might be stifling them in some ways, said Greg Jones (pictured), chief diversity officer at United Airlines Inc. “I have a theory that corporate America is probably operating at about 60 percent capacity, because people can’t fully pull ...

Can IBM Corp.’s new Cloud Object Storage Flex compete with Amazon S3? Unique user-friendly pricing might tip the scale its way, said Russ Kennedy, senior vice president of product strategy and customer solutions at Cleversafe, an IBM Company. Currently, available storage is too rigid for many customers’ workloads, Kennedy told Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...

Hybrid-cloud infrastructure is now the norm for enterprises, according to RightScale’s 2016 State of the Cloud Report, making single-brand loyalty hard to come by. Securing these diverse clouds will require something far different than a rigid, monolithic firewall, according to Gregory Pepper (pictured), security architect at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. “No one enterprise is single vendor ...

Private clouds and software as a service applications claiming to mimic the public cloud experience sans migration pains and security holes might seem to good to be true. They usually are, said Ed Walsh (pictured), general manager of storage and software-defined infrastructure at IBM Corp. Mant private cloud offerings currently on the market might bring down costs, improve efficiency ...

Data streaming engines are now drilling down to a single event at a time so enterprises can see consumer behavior in real time. Add machine learning analytics, and it gets better, said Harley Davis (pictured), vice president of operational decision management and France Lab at IBM Corp. “When you take into account predictive analytics models, machine learning, ...