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It’s time to Uber and Airbnb the telecommunications industry

Verizon, can you hear me now? I am sounding a call to arms to shake up, break up and decentralize your old industry. I’m not alone. I’m joined by hordes of telecom geeks decentralizing giants like you, AT&T and Vodafone. Your old ways aren’t fit for modern life. Your semi-monopolies should disintegrate like dandelions in ...
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The top trends driving technology providers in 2022

Technology’s impact on society and national economies continues to intensify, in turn increasing the business responsibilities of technology service providers and what their customers expect from them. This deeper entrenchment in business has also made technology providers much more sensitive to factors beyond information technology. It’s no longer sufficient for them to address client needs ...

What to expect at DockerCon 2022: theCUBE livestream May 10

Reaching double unicorn status, Docker Inc. is fresh off a Series C round of funding in March injecting $105 million into the company. Known for pioneering modern container solutions, Docker’s revitalized spin on developer tools is proving popular. Ahead of DockerCon 2022, the company’s latest developments will be top of mind. Last month Docker acquired ...

Modernization platform provider vFunction releases tool for assessing technical debt

Application modernization startup vFunction Inc. today added a companion to its automated software modernization platform that organizations can use to calculate the impact of technical debt across their application portfolio to help in setting priorities for which applications to modernize. The company, which raised $12.2 million in seed funding in early 2021 and $26 million more late ...
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Experience as the new uptime: Why automation is the silver bullet to get us there

The shift to remote and hybrid work was a sudden change brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with this change also came a rapid surge to move applications to the cloud. Although the shift to the cloud was in process before the pandemic, businesses had to shift to a higher gear quickly to access ...
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Three ways to build cost resilience into your cloud

Data center outages are expensive. Many organizations actually rush to migrate to the cloud, in part, to obtain the 99.9% or more availability that public cloud providers promise them. In their haste, those same organizations often fail to guard against the potential cost of “unexpected uptime” in the cloud. Because leaders of infrastructure and operations, or ...

How cybersecurity leaders can reframe their roles to succeed

Cybersecurity, once strictly a function of the information technology department, is turning into a business concept with societal implications. Investor interest, public pressure, employee demands and governmental regulations are strengthening the incentives for organizations to track and report cybersecurity goals and metrics as a business requirement. As a result, the role of the cybersecurity leader ...
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How to crack the code on data and analytics governance

Data and analytics leaders, including chief data officers, are facing an increasingly challenging business landscape. As the volume and velocity of data rises and CDOs are under pressure to support digital business outcomes, data and analytics governance is no longer just a matter of remaining compliant with regulations – it is a critical business capability. ...
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Seven intriguing enterprise startups for 2022

Despite the irrational exuberance around questionable innovations such as nonfungible tokens and the metaverse, there remain areas of steady innovation in enterprise information technology. I’ve beaten the bushes for some intriguing vendors and came up with seven startups with real stories to tell. Unsurprisingly, a few common themes emerged in my discussions. Observability – especially based ...
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Predictions 2022: Here’s what will happen in enterprise technology this year

The pandemic has changed the way we think about and predict the future. As we enter the third year of COVID, we see the significant impact it has had on technology strategies, spending patterns and company fortunes. Much has changed, and although many of these changes were forced reactions to a new abnormal, the trends ...