Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Songkick, a U.K.-based concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. Annually, Songkick helps over 175 million music fans from all around the world to track their favorite artists, discover concerts and live streams, and buy tickets with confidence online and via their mobile apps and website. Here’s how […]

On any given day, music streaming service Spotify might process an audio file a hundred different ways—identifying a track’s rhythm and tempo, timestamping beats, and measuring loudness—as well as more sophisticated processing, such as detecting languages and separating vocals from instruments. This might be done to develop a new feature, to help inform playlists and […]

As we’ve all seen firsthand this year, our universal dependence on a secure and reliable internet has never been greater. The global response to the pandemic highlights all of the ways we rely on the internet to ensure that families stay connected with one another, patients receive care, students continue to learn, and businesses continue […]

Business continuity is a top priority for enterprise IT organizations, and today we are excited to announce that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Actifio.  Actifio is a leader in backup and disaster recovery (DR)—offering customers the opportunity to protect virtual copies of data in their native format, manage these copies throughout […]

Information technology has been moving fast for several years, bringing more powerful and agile computation in the cloud, richer software, better analytics, mobility, and sensors. If only most enterprise technology vendors were keeping up. The incumbents were schooled in the old world of proprietary systems, higher switching costs, and vendor lock-in, and it shows in […]