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ServiceNow bets on AI, defies market limitations at Knowledge 2018
When experts thought it couldn’t be done, ServiceNow Inc. dominated as an information technology help desk platform to blow through market limitations to take on additional lines of business. As ServiceNow strives to hit the $5-billion valuation mark, can this enterprise software powerhouse take on its new competitors across its newly targeted markets and maintain ...
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Google’s Kelsey Hightower: Kubernetes needs startups to thrive
Can the rising tide in open-source computing lift all the boats in the business? Kelsey Hightower (pictured), co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, thinks so. Hightower’s tolerant view on collaboration may have surprised even the most open-minded attendees of this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU conference last week, ...
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As more applications get ‘cloudified,’ Kubernetes is key
As the largest project at the Linux Foundation, Kubernetes has seen marked growth in the past year. The open-source platform for managing container orchestration is piquing interest for software developers worldwide, enabling workload portability and supporting the new trend toward microservices in the fast-paced world of cloud computing. “Outside of Silicon Valley, most have heard ...
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‘AI doesn’t run on software’: Michael Dell jockeys for an infrastructure takeover
The curious transformation of Dell Technologies Inc. began with a decision to go private, scaling down to become a more agile player in the cloud computing era. Yet the subsequent merger with EMC Corp.’s federation of storage and virtualization products meant that Dell was once again a massive company subject to slowed innovation, with the ...
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Reinventing the city bus with self-driving pods and AI
Can humans be transported around a city as efficiently as data is moved around a computing network? One pioneering startup thinks so, engineering an intelligent bus line that works similarly to packet switching on the internet. “We divided the bus in sections, so you have six modules that coupled together are the same length and ...
Hortonworks bets on AI, automation in GDPR-ready services
With just five weeks until full enforcement, the pending laws of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation may have been the focus for the keynote at DataWorks Summit in Berlin, but the broader story of data governance spotlights the challenges facing event host Hortonworks Inc. as it evolves big data business beyond Apache Hadoop’s ...
Rethinking DevOps for a more programmable network
Where the term DevOps once represented the whole of software creation and deployment within business operations, the expansive realm of cloud computing is spurring hardwired networks to become more programmable. To help businesses build teams capable of addressing the matters of migrating, monitoring and modifying software applications in the cloud, one expert suggests a shift ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Big data’s revival is here, domain expertise is returning, say analysts
The term “big data” may have lost favor in recent years, but its byproducts have quietly been cultivating a revival. Through mainstream fascination (and fear) of machine intelligence, that swamp of stockpiled data is finally finding its footing in the business world. Now, eight years after SiliconANGLE’s first coverage of a dedicated big-data event, the ...
Stanford showcases women in data science to help close gender gap at WiDS 2018
Careers in technology fields can offer financial freedom to women around the world, but gender inequality still plagues the top tech companies and education systems worldwide. Can academia help close the gender gap from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen? Looking to answer these questions and more, SiliconANGLE is at the Global Women in Data Science Conference at Stanford ...
Where does high finance meet blockchain tech? In the Bahamas, for Polycon 2018
How is blockchain technology enabling the tokenization of high finance for cryptocurrency markets, and what are the economic and cultural impacts of such decentralized transactions? Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE is at the inaugural Polycon18 in the Bahamas, an intimate conference claiming to be the world’s first crypto event dedicated to security ...