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CBS Last night’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery was in some ways the true beginning of the series. We finally boarded the USS Discovery and met some of our series regulars, including the cynical Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), sunny Cadet Tilly (Mary Wiseman), and tough-as-nails security chief Landry (Rekha Sharma). We also found out what […]
Last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) allowed a Russian defense agency to analyze the source code of a cybersecurity software used by the Pentagon, Reuters reports. The software, a product called ArcSight, is an important piece of cyber defense for the Army, Air Force and Navy and works by alerting users to suspicious activity — […]
GUEST: Conversational interfaces have become increasingly common in daily life, from consumer bots on Facebook to Alexa and Google helping us at home to Slack bots that make our working lives easier and more productive. To understand more about the products helping shepherd conversational UI into the enterprise, I interviewed four companies that are preparing […]
GUEST: Advances in deep learning and other machine learning algorithms are currently causing a tectonic shift in the technology landscape. Technology behemoths like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Salesforce are engaged in an artificial intelligence (AI) arms race, gobbling up machine learning talent and startups at an alarming pace. They are building AI technology war […]
PRESS RELEASE: Cloud deployment of Policy Administration, Billing, Rating and Underwriting accelerates insurer’s speed-to-market and reduces total cost of ownership MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 5, 2017– CodeObjects today announced that United Insurance Holdings Corp. (“UPC Insurance,” NASDAQ:UIHC), a leading property and casualty insurance company, has successfully gone live with Insurance Enterprise in the cloud. Insurance Enterprise […]
GUEST: “Enterprise users don’t know the difference between algorithms and logarithms,“ jokes Marco Casalaina, VP of product management at Salesforce Einstein, during an enterprise AI event Topbots recently hosted for executives and entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Sadly, he’s right. Despite non-stop media hype about “artificial intelligence” and “deep learning,” very few people even know what […]
(credit: Alpha six) Backblaze, the low-cost cloud backup and storage provider, has published its drive reliability numbers for the first quarter of 2017. Over most of its life, Backblaze’s focus on high density and low cost has seen the company use consumer-oriented hard drive models for its storage service, applying replication and Reed-Solomon encoding to protect […]
GUEST: Recent history alone should be enough to prove that enterprise tech is a far more stable, profitable category than consumer tech. Take for instance the dozens of successful exits (either through acquisition or IPO) in the U.S. enterprise tech space in just 2016 and 2017. By contrast, the U.S. consumer tech space has seen […]
Reltio, a company specializing in giving enterprises data, insights, and recommendations through its cloud-based data management platform as a service (PaaS), has raised $ 40 million in a Series C round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Crosslink Capital and .406 Ventures. Founded out of California in […]
GUEST: When Slack introduced its new Enterprise Grid product in January, it pledged to bring “much of the same day-to-day Slack experience that users have come to know and love” to large organizations. Similarly, CRM giant Salesforce unveiled its new Einstein artificial intelligence service this past fall to great fanfare, touting it as “AI for […]
