David Needle

It’s hard to believe the CEO of Intel could give a keynote speech without mentioning its latest CPUs models to power the world’s desktop and notebooks PCs. Brian Krzanich’s CES 2018 keynote in Las Vegas focused on how Intel is helping to power a new generation of data-driven services, drones and self-driving cars that the […]

The latest cloud data management service from cloud data integration company Informatica is designed to help companies make the transition to cloud platforms or expand their cloud implementations, especially those with a big stake in more traditional on-premises infrastructure. Informatica released on Dec. 19 a new version of its iPaaS (Integration-Platform-as-a-Service) that uses artificial intelligence […]

SAN FRANCISCO—HPE and Rackspace gave more details as to why they think their recently announced partnership of a pay-per-use on-premise infrastructure service will succeed. At a media briefing here Dec. 12, the companies announced the OpenStack Private Cloud with pay-per-use infrastructure as a managed service. Rather than pay to buy and maintain servers, this service will […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Some of virtual reality’s biggest boosters shared words of caution at the recent VRX Conference and Expo here on Dec. 7-8. “We don’t want to mad rush this technology and say it solves everything,” said Frank Soqui,general manager of virtual reality and gaming at Intel. During a panel discussion on enterprise use cases for […]

Top 10 Gadgets to Help You Get Your Geek On This Holiday Season The holidays are a time of giving, and that means finding just the right gadget or new doohickey for your favorite techie. The recent GetGeeked event in San Francisco showcased a number of innovative products that could be perfect stocking stockers, Hanukah […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com expects more than 170,000 people to take part in its annual Dreamforce conference here Nov. 6-9. Many of those attendees came to look over or show off the applications they have developed for their companies that extend the Salesforce customer relationship management ecosystem. One reason why the Salesforce CRM platform has grown so […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com is moving to make several of its services more accessible and customizable. During a media briefing here ahead of its Dreamforce conference that kicks off Nov. 6, Salesforce detailed enhancements to many of its services, including the Trailhead learning platform. The new myTrailhead is designed to let companies create their own interactive learning […]

HALF MOON BAY, CALIF. —The practical and potential applications of AI were a hot topic Oct. 24-27 at the Constellation Research Connected Enterprise conference here. “Today, AI augments what we do, but in the future you’ll see decisions made by (AI) entities,” said Bernt Wahl, executive director of the Brain Machine Consortium. Wahl argues a […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Looking to give enterprises and other organizations better access to relatively underutilized content, Box has announced Box Skills. The initial release of Box Skills covers three areas—image, audio and video. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) company said Box Skills leverages different aspects of machine learning such as computer vision, video indexing and sentiment analysis, to give […]

Asserting that a new approach is needed to combat cyber-crime, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison introduced two new cloud security suites at Oracle OpenWorld that rely primarily on machine learning to automatically detect and resolve threats rather than rely on human intervention. “Companies are losing the cyber war every year and it’s getting worse,” said Ellison. […]