Scot Petersen

LAS VEGAS–Amazon Web Services is teaming with satellite services provider DigitalGlobe and manufacturer Lockheed Martin on a venture to bring satellite data “down to Earth.” At AWS Re:Invent here, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS Ground Station, a new service that will be housed at AWS Cloud Regions around the globe. Lockheed’s contribution is called […]

Oracle recently wrapped up its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, where it announced several updates to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). But Oracle was not done there with new features to lure enterprises to its cloud. This week at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas, Oracle is introducing new high-performance computing (HPC) instances for OCI. […]

NEW YORK—By now, it’s pretty much a cliché to say that all companies should be technology companies. But in the case of banks and financial services these days, it’s true. Many finance companies are early adopters of new technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and Kubernetes as well as leaders in open-source development. And […]

Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH (pictured), is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., where she sees patients in pediatric endocrinology. She spends most of her time doing research in medical informatics and health IT, on “how to optimize and make the EHR [Electronic Health Record] less […]

LAS VEGAS—Just a few years ago VMware was counted out as a legacy technology provider that was being overrun by Docker containers and declared a non-player in the cloud after famously selling off vCloud Air.  Today things are much different since VMware is back at the center of the cloud picture—that is the fast-evolving multi-cloud […]

LAS VEGAS—The message was clear at this year’s Black Hat conference: The “culture,” for lack of a better term, of security must change, or society faces living in a world of perpetual cyber-risk.  “We need to be more ambitious, strategic and collaborative in our approach to defense,” said keynote speaker Parisa Tabriz, director of engineering […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google’s enterprise cloud strategy came into focus this week at its third annual Next conference. The search giant announced products that, for the first time, make it a player in the hybrid cloud space. Google’s cloud technology has already helped many vendors establish their own hybrid cloud services—such as Red Hat, IBM, VMware, Pivotal […]

In the area of “smart” buildings and cities, internet of things applications are starting to appear that accentuate convenience and customer satisfaction rather than new revenue streams.  Otis Elevator, for example, is looking to make sure passengers in its elevators get a smooth ride while giving building owners more insight into their infrastructure and making […]

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 […]