As a digital tsunami engulfs the medical profession, Google is stepping in with life preservers. The National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research, announced Tuesday that it would join with Google Cloud on an initiative to broaden access to research data, utilizing storage, computing and machine learning technologies. “Doctors and researchers are ...

The emergence of Arrcus Inc. from stealth mode and the release of its first product, ArcOS, represents an opening salvo in what could become major disruption in the networking world. The multi-billion networking industry has been dominated by a small yet powerful number of vendors, and Arrcus has a grand plan to change that situation. The ...

If Amazon Web Services Inc. really wants to make machine learning services as ubiquitous as vanilla ice cream, its approach so far is turning it into something quite different. It’s more like Vietnamese coffee with frosted almonds and peanut butter curry, a flavor that can actually be ordered at one ice cream shop in San Francisco. AWS announced a ...

It’s no surprise that the blockchain community is moving rapidly with new innovations on an almost weekly basis. What’s surprising is that U.S. regulators have so far declined to step in, while other countries move boldly ahead with their own blockchain initiatives. There was both optimism over new uses for the distributed ledger and nervous ...

More than 90 percent of the world’s searches are driven by Google LLC’s cloud infrastructure. The company rakes in $32 billion of search advertising revenue for the U.S. market, which is nearly $30 billion more than its closest competitor. What’s more, it’s probably the world’s largest cloud company in terms of aggregate resources and has contributed an ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced new features which increase the computing tasks that can be performed with the Snowball Edge appliance for data migration between connected devices, and also boost the level of security. Specifically, a local version of AWS’ web-scale configuration tool Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, can now run directly on the machine. “You can ...

The enterprise world has online advertising to thank for MongoDB Inc. The open-source database platform provider got its start in 2007 when the team behind DoubleClick grew frustrated with the woeful ability of databases to serve 400,000 ads per second. MongoDB’s founders built a general purpose database platform that turned out to be able to handle ...

Among the many countries of the world, there are a group of nations — Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland — that are considered neutral, without entry into military alliances or the establishment of any army bases. In the war-like battles for cloud supremacy, BitRock Inc. (Bitnami) is Switzerland. The company, which specializes in the automated packaging and deployment of ...

Next year, the Mayfield Fund LLC will celebrate a milestone not commonly seen in Silicon Valley: It will celebrate 50 years in the investment business, having been founded well before most of the largest technology companies today became market drivers. The company has parlayed its nearly half-century of experience, with investments in firms such as Genentech Inc. ...

When Mario Armstrong (pictured) talks about the struggle to achieve his dreams, he draws from a wellspring of experience. Ten years ago, the Emmy Award-winning talk show host and his wife, Nicole, had negative bank balances, maxed-out credit cards and groceries bought by their parents. Fast forward to the present, and the picture looks dramatically ...