Scot Petersen

NEW YORK—Amazon is dealing with striking workers in Europe, site disruptions during its Prime Day sale event and protestors inside and out of the Javits Convention Center, site of this week’s AWS NYC Summit 2018.  None of which appeared to bother Amazon Web Services executives at the Summit, who announced new capabilities for its artificial […]

The world’s food producers are facing a big problem: The rising global population means the world will need to increase food production by as much as 70 percent over the next 30 years. With the acreage of farmland remaining constant, how will this goal be met?  The obvious answer is to continue increasing crop yields, […]

BOSTON—The prognosis for the health care industry in the digital age is not good, but that hasn’t slowed efforts to use technology and connected devices to improve patient care.  At a special event as part of the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Technical Meeting here this week, health care professionals and vendors discussed the latest innovations […]

The Linux Foundation’s LF Networking group announced availability for the second version of ONAP,  or the Open Network Automation Platform that is codenamed “Beijing,” which is being used by AT&T and several other large carriers to manage and automate network traffic and security.  Beijing follows “Amsterdam,” which was a first release late last year that […]

Oracle picked the opening day of chief rival SAP’s SAPPHIRE conference to tout a new program to encourage Oracle business application customers to move to the cloud faster.  Oracle’s Soar program also signaled a new, more aggressive tack by the company to get its customers to shift from legacy, on premise E-Business Suite (versions 12.x […]

People who visit their doctor regularly know that something is complicating the physician-patient relationship—namely, the office’s electronic medical record system (EMR).  While progress is being made with EMR maturity and usability, physicians spend as much as half of their time typing data into the EMR, according to Nuance research and several other studies. Data entry […]

Things do move quickly in the cloud-native computing space. Just a year from its public launch, the technology known as Istio is close to becoming an everyday part of developing microservices. Jason McGee, vice president and CTO of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, said in an interview with eWEEK that Istio, a “service mesh” that […]

While tech giants continue work out the details of their workplace collaboration strategies, upstart Slack continues to grow and is working toward making its product smarter and more productive. Among moves being made by the biggest players in the market, Microsoft recently announced a one-year trial offer for its Teams product to spur customer interest. […]

NEW YORK—With video traffic on pace to make up more than 80 percent of all internet traffic within two years, the tech industry is working on ways to move the bits more efficiently and increase viewer engagement in the process. At the Streaming Media East conference here this week, Facebook said it is starting to […]

LAS VEGAS—health care industry, historically slow to adopt new digital technology and to gain efficiencies from that technology, is starting to show signs of success with cloud computing.  That was one news item from Dell Technologies World this week, where Dell subsidiary Virtustream, an enterprise cloud services provider, announced that it is seeing traction in […]