As the keynote presentations during day three of the IBM Think conference in Las Vegas came to a close, the message was hard to miss: IBM is all in on the blockchain, and it intends to use its considerable technology clout and finances to build a significant business around the extrasecure, distributed ledger platform. “IBM has a tendency ...

The cybsersecurity industry has a basic problem. There will soon be too many attacks and not enough trained human beings to deal with them. In what IBM Corp.’s top executive proclaimed as the “man and machine” era, the company has placed its own bet on intelligent systems to fill the gap. “The security industry has ...

The problems holding many companies back are not technology-based. What inhibits digital transformation growth are process and organizational strife, at least according to one Dell EMC executive. “Some organizations still treat big data and analytics like they do the digital warehouse,” said Matt Maccaux (pictured), global big data practice lead at Dell EMC. “The most ...

The centerpiece of the second day at IBM Corp.’s major gathering in Las Vegas this week was an address by Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM, who methodically outlined a vision for the company based on a theme of “Putting Smarter to Work.” The focus was on IBM’s intelligent software and data ...

Upon its founding in 1992, NetApp Inc.’s original business model was based on selling Unix workgroup filers to software design teams. From there, the company branched into becoming a leading network-attached storage provider. Now, the company’s website promotes itself as the “Data authority in the hybrid cloud.” This is a company that has learned to evolve ...

One well-known global shoe manufacturer had a real-time problem. Its highly identifiable, brand-name shoes were being diverted in shipments around the world and sold outside of channels in gray markets. But tracking the shipments took weeks, and by the time an investigation had been completed, the shoes were long gone. Working with the real-time application ...

The kickoff of this week’s inaugural IBM Think event in Las Vegas, Nevada, represents a new approach by the technology company now well into its second century of operation. For years, IBM Corp. held smaller, niche events focused on various technical areas of the business. Now, the company is following the model used by Salesforce.com Inc., ...

One of the challenges confronting the data science industry is finding ways to make sophisticated analytics tools easier to use across cloud and data center platforms within multiple industries. The data layout matters, and Intel Corp. has issued the latest version of its Math Kernel Library in an effort to help developers leverage instruction sets ...

The technology behind cyberattacks is becoming more sophisticated, and the recent frenzy surrounding cryptocurrencies is driving criminals to become more adept at taking over vulnerable computer systems. Those were two of the key findings from the newly released “Threat Landscape Report,” a summary of security intelligence from Fortinet Inc. The quarterly report is based on ...

Recent Wikibon research has shown that a compute model that keeps as much data as possible at the edge can save enterprise customers more money than a process that ships data to the cloud (Wikibon is owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE). Industrial internet of things startup FogHorn Systems Inc. has set out to prove that ...