VR isn’t just for games — it works for the enterprise, too

GUEST: People still view virtual reality as a glorified entertainment platform. But it’s more than just games: enterprise VR is a quietly successful segment of this emerging industry that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Building a successful enterprise VR venture is a complex undertaking with unique challenges that are often unexpected and counterintuitive. This […]

3 guidelines for successful enterprise AI adoption

GUEST: Artificial intelligence has permeated our culture and is revolutionizing our daily lives. Alexa turns off our lights before bed, chatbots manage our online purchases, and Uber tells us when we will arrive at our destination. AI technology is so ingrained in our day-to-day lives that over 68 percent of us use it without even […]

The lesson behind 2017’s biggest enterprise security story

GUEST: The Equifax breach, which impacted an estimated 145.5 million U.S. consumers, was in many ways the enterprise security story of 2017. That’s why so many of us were shocked when, during (now former) Equifax CEO Richard Smith’s Congressional testimony, we repeatedly heard him blame the company’s breach on a single IT person failing to […]

macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 is here with enterprise and security updates

Enlarge / High Sierra wallpaper. The low-hanging clouds in the background may or may not be related to the name. (credit: Apple) Rounding out several days of OS updates that included iOS 11.2, tvOS 11.2, and watchOS 4.2, Apple today rolled out macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 for supported Macs. You can download the update now […]

Meg Whitman, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known execs, is stepping down from the CEO job at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Getty Images Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO, Meg Whitman, is stepping down in February. She will be replaced by Antonio Neri, the current president of HPE. Whitman, who joined HPE’s predecessor, Hewlett-Packard, in 2011, was recently identified as being in the running to be the CEO of Uber, though she ultimately did not get that job. […]

Former GM CEO calls Tesla a ‘losing enterprise,’ and says it’s ‘going out of business’ (TSLA)

Tesla Former General Motors executive Bob Lutz panned Tesla less than 24 hours after the electric-car company revealed its first big rig truck and a new roadster.  Lutz called Tesla a “losing enterprise” and said it’s “going out of business.” Tesla has had problems of late, both on its assembly lines and in the front […]

Enterprise growth is changing in the age of AI

GUEST: Not long ago, reaching audiences through technologies like email was considered breakthrough. Fast forward to today, a hyper-accelerated existence in which the average human checks their smartphone over 150 times daily. This phone-fiddling translates into the average enterprise dealing with somewhere between 200 and 300 million digital signals per day, yet most can barely […]

Audi is taking on Enterprise and Hertz with a rental service that delivers luxury cars to your door — here’s what it’s like

Melia Robinson/Business Insider Audi wants to put you in its vehicles — without the commitment of buying a new luxury car. The luxury automaker launched a rent-a-car-service called Audi On Demand in San Francisco in 2015. The service lets you rent an Audi vehicle for a day (or for as long as a month) from your smartphone. […]

GitHub, the ‘Facebook for programmers,’ has quietly built up an enterprise business that accounts for half its $200 million in sales

GitHub GitHub may have a reputation as a hub for up-and-coming young coders, but the $ 2 billion company has a secret user base driving its success: corporations.   About half of GitHub’s $ 200 million in annual revenue comes from businesses, according to chief strategy officer Julio Avalos. And that number is growing as more and more software […]

Oracle updates enterprise security service with machine learning

Oracle added machine learning to its cloud management product to help better secure businesses from threats. The renamed Management and Security Cloud will take in data from on-premises and cloud infrastructure, then analyze them to help determine what might be a threat to a company’s data. When the system determines that something fishy is going […]