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Industry 4.0 will transform work, from big factories to mom and pop shops
Many hear the term Industry 4.0 and envision vast wind farms with digitally-connected machinery doing complex computations. And it is that, potentially. But there is another layer to 4.0 much closer to humans. It is about the interplay among workers, data, sensor technology and robots improving productivity from large factories to small businesses. “With industry 4.0, ...
The quick, easy, ‘lottery-proof’ swap for a Splunk admin
Those versed in the intricacies of the Splunk Inc. data-analytics platform are hot tickets on today’s tech-heavy job market. Companies that can’t manage to nab such a precious specialist have alternatives, though. Splunk Cloud on Amazon Web Services Inc. can express deliver customers’ data to Splunk, with built-in compliance via an easy migration, according to Bina Khimani (pictured), global head, partner ...
Cooking up solutions from messy hybrid IT
Why is the nation of Bahrain overhauling its information technology infrastructure? It’s not merely trend-hopping along with the rest of the world embracing cloud computing. It is so that businesses and government organizations in the region can bring the country and its people into a new digital era. Bahrain’s partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. is ...
Edge hardware, 5G network will create new wave of AI mobile apps
When we talk about intelligent applications at the edge of computing networks, often we are referring to the tasks we perform everyday on our smartphones. Our handhelds already stream movies, recognize faces and act on voice commands, to name a few of their futuristic capabilities. The combination of 5G networking and stronger artificial-intelligence computing will send a new wave ...
If life gives you crypto, use it as collateral for real-money loans
Think of cryptocurrencies as lemons. Owners can keep them in the fridge or take them out and make lemonade, Tom Collinses or a meringue pie. Of limited options, many have been idle with their digital tokens, but startups are coming up with creative ways to squeeze more juice out of them, including real money loans. “We ...
Bringing tech’s boogiemen to life: Woman coder is naming names to fight industry bias
Despite numerous initiatives to promote gender parity, women currently hold just 28.6 percent of computing jobs. Why? It’s a question that elicits a barrage of clashing answers that light flames of controversy in the news and social media feeds. There’s a sense that some in the tech community, such as former Google LLC engineer James Damore, are growing ...
ERP for subscription-based business pulls it all together
The everything-as-a-service movement is rearranging things for enterprises and consumers alike. The bundles of software-based service clouds in enterprise information technology can be difficult to integrate. And as more businesses switch to subscription models, they wind up with innumerable data points to track on the delivery journey. Naturally, many are yearning for a solution that herds everything neatly into ...
Oracle’s ‘self-driving database’ speeds around rote tasks to business value
Automating away rote tasks with machine learning can do more than nibble down at super-sized business processes. When ML is embedded deep in the machinery of infrastructure, it can transform the jobs of people who use it and drastically impact business outcomes. For example, Oracle Corp.’s new database with ML automation will change the workdays of ...
Mayfield mentors fast-track startups, favoring brains over business models
How are the world’s richest startups born? They’re not born; they’re made. Wrought one bit at a time from a harebrained, middle-of-the-night idea. That’s how founders go from bootstrapping an air mattress on the floor of their apartment to becoming a serious threat to the hospitality industry. It’s not just persistence, but persistent pivoting that wins the race, ...
Mesosphere waves the as-a-service wand at Kubernetes
On track one, we have complicated technologies for hot new trends such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence. On track two are the growing number of tools that collapse these complexities into simpler abstractions — things like cloud services and serverless computing. The race is neck-and-neck, since no sooner is something simplified than something in its ...