At this year’s South by Southwest the theme for our conference tech coverage is “AI for good.” Technologists will be discussing how they are using new developments in artificial intelligence to solve complex, long-standing social problems, including crimes against children. Federico Gomez Suarez (pictured), senior technical program manager at Microsoft, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...

The network bottleneck is still causing headaches for the sensor-heavy Internet of Things and next-gen networking with 5G, having to manage big data applications and real-time data processing. Until this bottleneck is addressed, cloud computing can’t take off in the enterprise, according to Praveen Akkiraju, chief executive officer of Viptela Inc. “It’s essentially the last leg ...

Just as companies like Google Inc. are now offering cloud services to win enterprise customers, hardware producer Intel in turn is optimizing products with cloud providers in mind. “We completely restructured Intel to be a cloud and [Internet of Things] company,” said Raejeanne Skillern, vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager of the Cloud Service ...

Last week’s Amazon Web Service S3 storage service outage sent jitters through IT departments — if this could happen at Amazon, it could happen anywhere. Many are wondering which cloud vendors they can depend on and if a multi-cloud strategy might help protect data. Nelson Nahum (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer at Zadara Storage Inc., doesn’t ...

A Verizon 2016 report on security found that two-thirds of breaches now involve stolen credentials. Another recent report from the analysts at Forrester Research Inc. found that 80 percent of breaches involved privileged or root accounts for infrastructure and so forth. The takeaway, says Tom Kemp, chief executive officer at Centrify Corp., is that a simple username ...

Google Cloud is currently a distant third place on the podium with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Is this not odd for a company with such enviable tech inside its own walls? And can Google turn its collection of geeky IT tools, particularly those in artificial intelligence, into a comprehensive offer that enterprises can’t refuse? “[Google is] ...

Digital transformation means many things to many people. To Tarun Thakur (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Datos IO Inc., it means that the application now defines the choice of IT stack underneath. Often, he said, this means moving to the cloud, which in turn, requires a fundamental rethink of disaster recovery. Enterprises need to be ...

Cloud providers that have tried to best Amazon Web Services at their own game have not met with success. To avoid winding up scrap metal in the AWS derby, Google Inc. is taking a detour; by offering enterprises services honed for specific use-cases, can they cut corners and finish first? “They’re creating a lot of really compelling ...

Internet of Things and 5G are among the new technologies that attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain, were all abuzz about this week. The elephant in the room, of course, was the networking bottleneck that has to burst before organizations can really evolve. Open-source expert Lauren Cooney (pictured), told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE ...

Some self-driving car makers are incorporating more and more extras like face-recognition and augmented reality displays. Bob Stefanski, managing director of eLab Ventures, said that this may be a winning approach for manufactures looking for an edge in the market. But, Stefanski told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, that one ...