In the first century, Greek professor Heron of Alexandria created a coin-operated machine to dispense holy water. Back then, visitors to the city temples took more holy water than they paid for. His ...

The startup's managed, distributed database service is designed to run queries against real-time data in a more cost-efficient manner than batch processing systems. New York-based startup Materialize ...

Google LLC today introduced a new version of Cloud Spanner, one of its managed database services, that will enable customers to process their information faster and more cost-efficiently. The company ...

A decade and a half of enterprise cloud adoption has spread vast amounts of data and processing around the globe, and the onslaught of generative AI – and now agentic AI – is only accelerating it.