What's on the forecast? 'Technology innovation and disruption'

What technology experts have said for years is now making its way into the mainstream market narrative: Digitization and adopting advanced technology will help companies separate from competitors.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 15, 2017

IBM offers quantum platform to customers, breaks qubit record

Big Blue began launching publicly available quantum computing systems in May 2016, and the 20 qubit system will be the fourth generation of development. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 14, 2017

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Top 5 stories from CIO Dive

Shifts in compute infrastructure, ongoing AI adoption plans and talent challenges ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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Microsoft is using its sales team to win over cloud customers

Instead of traditional pitch presentations, the legacy software provider is engineering applications for potential customers during a sales call. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 14, 2017

Being 'bullish' on AI pays off, Deloitte says

Companies jumping into AI and cognitive technologies are more likely to innovate and transform with the tech, but those that only test the waters are more likely to pursue automation.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 13, 2017

Mary Jane, meet blockchain: IBM touts tech for pot market

Blockchain will offer Canada a transparent view of the supply chain "from seed to sale," which will facilitate regulation and quality checks, reduce fraud, and support consumers' health and safety.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 10, 2017

Technology disTrumption: How 45 has impacted the tech sector

One year after Donald Trump won the election, the technology enterprise has not significantly changed under his hands-off approach. AI may change that.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 8, 2017

Why the Salesforce partnership is a big deal for Google Cloud

The companies have prior relations from a deal in 2008 that brought Salesforce into Google Apps but nothing to this extent. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 7, 2017

Cloud market remains SaaS-centric, but PaaS growing rapidly

The SaaS market is an already well-established enterprise fixture, and most companies have cloud-based software integrated into core systems.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 7, 2017

How to create a 2018 SaaS budget with confidence

IT may not care about every single SaaS application, but understanding the entire enterprise software spend is valuable to help justify the overarching budgets and identify cost savings.

By Eric Christopher • Nov. 7, 2017

Under Armour faces losses after ERP update

Despite disappointing Q3 data, the company expects to regain lost ground after adjusting to the new system.

By Jennifer McKevitt , Kate Patrick Macri • Nov. 7, 2017

A case for democratized AI and ML

From medical imaging to cotton weeding, niche use cases of AI and ML abound. But for the average company struggling to keep up with digital transformation, the tech is still far out of reach.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 3, 2017

Fintech needs to keep AI and ML risks in mind, board warns

Though the Financial Stability Board recognized the benefits of the advanced technology, risks and potential dependencies on third-parties could persist. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 2, 2017

5 fresh business technology startups making a splash

With so many startups crowding the enterprise technology space, it can be difficult to tell the promising from the not. Sometimes $100 million in funding is seen as a metric of success, but other times success is filling a niche role for a critical technology.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 1, 2017

As email hinders productivity, automation helps enterprise workers

Email has potentially hit the ceiling of its productivity as a work management tool and now gets in the way of primary job functions.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 31, 2017

NVIDIA and HPE hop on board the AI accessibility train

New tools that ease development and deployment are key to spreading advanced technology solutions among companies without the resources for a comprehensive in-house AI team.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2017

Domestic outsourcing on the rise

Questions and qualms about outsourcing today come amid a period of introspection, largely driven by politics, about American companies' relation to domestic and international workers.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 27, 2017

AI salaries burning a hole in companies' wallets

A small talent pool coupled with competition from the auto industry is driving AI salaries into the six-figure range, and companies without the resources of Google or Microsoft may miss out.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 25, 2017

Why Microsoft is pushing for interoperability with its competitors

As a software and service provider with a hold on most tech markets, Microsoft has more reign to collaborate with other tech giants without sacrificing its own profitability.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 25, 2017

Move over, Siri. AI is coming to the iPhone

The extension of AI through mobile devices like phones and tablets could make access to AI feel as regular as access to the cloud.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 24, 2017

Kaspersky CEO defends security products, claims innocence

The Russian security firm claimed that the recent allegations seem to be rooted in damaging the security software provider's reputation without the opportunity of due process.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 24, 2017

Google to offer AI 'crash courses'

Recognizing the limited pool of talent capable of AI development, the tech giant will begin offering access to free, online learning materials to help coders take up machine learning.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 20, 2017

Long-awaited Windows 10 Fall Creators Update drops

Although Microsoft made promises to slow its roll for Windows 10 updates, this version and its "fluent" designs were widely anticipated. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 17, 2017

Google's AI can now help create AI

The machine and deep learning system can propose and train "child" architectures more efficient and powerful than human-generated ones. Sundar Pichai hopes AutoML will help democratize AI for the enterprise.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 16, 2017

AWS, Microsoft work together for open AI ecosystem

The two companies don't often appear in the same sentence unless its about competition and the cloud, but the pair turned heads Thursday with the announcement of a deep learning partnership.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 13, 2017

Oculus for Business brings VR to the enterprise

Facebook may soon face competition from Amazon, which is reportedly working on its own VR smart glasses integrated with Alexa.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 13, 2017