Businesses spent an awful lot of time talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2017. It appears that 2018 is shaping up to be the year the talk trails off and morphs into reality. And that’s precisely the moment that CIOs and IT…

At the end of 2017 if it didn’t become abundantly clear that artificial intelligence is well on its way to changing everything that matters about the way we work, then you weren’t paying attention. The examples were too numerous to list, but here’s a…

It’s important to say this up front. Mark Curphey loves open source software. “I’m a big fan, and always have been,” the founder and CEO of the security startup SourceClear says. After all, what’s not to like about people pulling together in the same…

Sanjay Mirchandani is a rare breed. And to be honest, he can’t quite figure out why. For the last 14 months he’s been the CEO of Puppet, the Portland, Ore.-based company that specializes in helping companies automate the operations of their tech…

Most of the discussions around artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligent automation tends to occur under the conceit that the changes anticipated by their adoption lie off a few years away as part of some future scenario that we…

You don’t have to be an IT pro to know that there’s an urgent need for some new ideas in security. And if you’re not yet convinced, a concise summary of some of the headline-grabbing breaches of the last few years will probably make the case. For…

I spend a lot of time talking to senior executives at large companies, and if there’s one phrase I hear them all talk about consistently — perhaps a little too often — it’s “Digital Transformation.” Ask 10 people what it means and you’ll get 10…

Let me start this by saying I recently became a new dad. As you would expect, my wife and I have been buying a lot of baby supplies: diapers, wipes and formula are the new recurring items on our monthly budget. Having started out buying them all in…

There was a time in my life, not so long ago when I felt oppressed by tiny pieces of paper: receipts. For much of my working life, I've spent about a third of each year traveling for work, and running up a lot of expenses. About once a month, I spend…

One of the original poster children of the big data software craze, Cloudera, is due for its long-awaited IPO this week. Sometime Thursday afternoon, its shares will price somewhere between $12 and $14 and will open for trading on the New York Stock…

When the history of cloud software is written its beginnings will be traced to 1998 and the founding of NetLedger (Now Oracle-owned NetSuite) an accounting app. Over the course of two decades companies like Salesforce.com, Workday and Concur would…

Millions of words have probably been written about the public market debut last week of Snap Inc., the parent of the social media service Snapchat. [ Related: Snap soars on IPO, now what? ] The IPO was the first tech-related issue of 2017, raised…

Living in San Francisco for a few years, you learn a few things about the fall: First, the weather tends to be hotter and sunnier than the summer months. Second, you learn to avoid the area around the area around the Moscone Convention Center in late…

Slack, the office workplace messaging app used by about three million people a day, took another step in its quest to become the app where you spend most of your working life. It added buttons. They’re called message buttons, and they link to tasks…

Valentina Proskurina / Shutterstock Slack, the office workplace messaging app used by about three million people a day, took another step in its quest to become the app where you spend most of your working life. It added buttons. They’re called…

A group of Apple networking engineers who had worked on a secret internal project to break the company’s reliance on cloud services from outside vendors has left to start a new networking startup called SnapRoute. Apple is not involved with the…

Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images A group of Apple networking engineers who had worked on a secret internal project to break the company’s reliance on cloud services from outside vendors has left to start a new networking startup…

A new world champion in the realm of supercomputing has unseated the juggernaut that has held it since 2013. Sunway TaihuLight is three times more powerful than the previous champ, Tianhe-2, according to the latest edition of the twice-a-year list of…