As Accenture Lab celebrated the launch of it’s flagship Innovation Lab in San Francisco last week, the Lab’s core team talked about the innovations they foresee around smart products, artificial intelligence, and the human-machine interconnectedness of the future. “These innovation hubs are something that we’re growing in the U.S. and around the world, but I think here in ...

As artificial intelligence becomes one of the burgeoning technological advances of the 21st century, there are many troubling ethical questions surrounding the proper usage of AI for heavily invested companies. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, global lead for responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, has made it her life’s work to talk to companies about the ethical and ...

Confidence is key when anyone sets out to accomplish their dreams, especially as more and more women reach within to find the strength to plunge into leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation within the science and technology fields. Sarah Gerweck (pictured), founder and chief architect of AtScale Inc., recently received recognition for her work as one of ...

Being recognized as a successful woman in tech is a huge accomplishment, but there are those who are also quick to point out that gender is just one of many aspects a person has to offer the world. Tongtong Gong (pictured), co-founder and chief operating officer of Amberdata Inc., was recently awarded one of the Top Women Entrepreneurs ...

No matter who you are, data talks — especially for women trying to break down barriers in the world of technology. Idit Levine (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of solo.io Inc., was recently awarded one of the Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud by CloudNOW, a nonprofit consortium of women in cloud computing. “My motto is really simple: ...

Diversity is finally being embraced by the tech world, as was clear at the seventh annual CloudNOW Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards that were held on January 29. This year’s event was groundbreaking, selling out quickly with more than 300 attendees and held for the first time at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. ...

As hybrid cloud computing gains ground in enterprise computing, companies are circling around the question of what to do with their data given the newfound mixture of storage and networking solutions between public and private cloud environments. Flexibility is by nature a necessity of hybrid cloud, and Pure Storage Inc. aims to support flexible solutions no matter ...

For the past few years, companies debated between private and public cloud computing. Then hybrid and multicloud options started to help merge these competing forces, bringing more options to organizations that didn’t want to force a choice. And now? With landmark collaborations between companies like Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc., the cloud is back to ...

As cloud infrastructure platforms expand their product portfolios into the world of industry-specific microservices, one of the biggest challenges is to market these innovative solutions effectively. Eron Kelly (pictured), general manager of enterprise services marketing at Amazon Web Services Inc., revealed what AWS is doing to get the word out about the company’s new developments — including 13 new machine learning services, eight ...

The demand for hybrid and multicloud computing infrastructure is forcing companies to learn to collaborate and cooperate rather than just compete — which is something VMware Inc. is doing by partnering with Amazon Web Services, Inc. “People don’t move and change things just because it’s convenient,” said Ajay Patel (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of cloud provider software ...