Cisco Puts Webex and AI at Center of Collaboration Strategy
SAN DIEGO—Now that it has connected much of the world's enterprise networks, Cisco is working on connecting other critical enterprise assets: employees and customers.Cisco celebrated its 30th annual Live user conference here last week by talking up its new "cognitive collaboration" strategy that spans Webex tools for video meetings to contact center interactions.While cognitive implies plenty of artificial intelligence...
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency’s Future Debated at Consensus Conference
NEW YORK—If you are still confused about what blockchain is and what it can be used for, don’t worry. The crypto industry is still trying to figure that out, too.Here at Coindesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, fledgling software companies pitched new pieces for future incarnations of blockchain, while new advocacy groups discussed why it is important to normalize the technology...
Kurian’s Enterprise Chops Enable New Deals for Google Cloud
Maybe all that was keeping Google Cloud from being a true challenger to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure was to be less like Google and more like Oracle, or even SAP.That's what it looks like in the wake of the Google Cloud Next conference, and yesterday's news of former Oracle executive and current Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian...
SignalFx Turns on Real-time Monitoring for Google Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO--At the Google Cloud Next conference here this week, Google outlined a new strategy for managing cloud applications, microservices and serverless functions across on-premise, hybrid and "multi" cloud environments, as it seeks to catch up with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.SignalFx, a third-party specialist in application performance monitoring (APM) and visibility, was ready with news of its...
New Wearables Cut Health Care Costs With Better Monitoring
The trend toward value-based care coupled with new devices and algorithms is pushing wearables makers further into the health care market.At the recent HIMSS health care IT conference, dozens of vendors showed a range of solutions that are designed to do a better job of monitoring patients once they leave the hospital and head into rehabilitation, long-term facilities or...
Health Care Still in Hacker Cross-Hairs, but Defenses Improving
ORLANDO, Fla. -- There is both good news and bad news in health-care security trends: The bad news is that 74 percent of health care organizations were hit by "significant" security incidents in the past year, of which 56 percent were conducted by so-called bad actors targeting specific organizations with sophisticated, targeted, financially motivated attacks. The numbers were flat...