Aaron Melgar
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Splunk boosts real-time, predictive data for retail and healthcare
As data gets collected from a wide range of sources from the edge of the network where devices live to on-premises data centers where it’s processed, large enterprises are finding that their data tends to reside in multiple silos rather than a single store of information. Accenture LLP, a management and technology consulting company, is helping ...
Disaggregating computing and storage helps optimize cost, efficiencies
As data processing and storage demands expand for on-premises computing environments, disaggregating computing and storage resources can help maximize performance while minimizing cost for hardware systems. For a company like AppNexus Inc., an online advertising market with daily transaction volumes 10 times greater than the annual New York Stock Exchange transaction volumes, costs must not only ...
Paxos algorithm enables continuous replication of data across regions and storage systems
As global footprints expand alongside data governance laws, companies require robust data replication solutions that span geographic regions and can handle immense data sets in real time. While some offerings are beginning to address the problem of backing up data as it’s being written, the challenge is to do so with power, at scale. One company thinks it’s ...
Software-enforced data policies ensure GDPR-compliant algorithms
The digital transformation is empowering the business world to extract immense value from new sources of data, like social networks and web browser activity. But policy makers are looking to catch up with the technology trends by establishing protections regarding the ethical use of consumer data, including the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation. To help ease the ...
Streamlining data ingestion leads to data democratization among business analysts
The focus of the big data industry is shifting up the stack from computing infrastructure to extracting meaningful value from the data in a scalable fashion, according to Wikibon Inc. Chief Research Officer Peter Burris. Democratizing the data for use among a business analyst organization requires ingestion from a wide range of computing environments and ...
Dow implements hybrid waterfall, agile approach to digital transformation
While the benefits of agile methodologies are touted across the tech industry, the waterfall approach still has merits in certain circumstances, especially in larger organizations. The Dow Chemical Co. has a history of waterfall-heavy implementation — with the largest SAP SE implementation in history, at $1B and 800 SAP systems — according to Seneca Louck, ...
Machine learning, IoT drive ServiceNow strategy across verticals
During the ServiceNow Knowledge17 event in Orlando, Florida, earlier this year, a lot of the buzz was around the new applications the ServiceNow platform was expanding into with new capabilities like machine learning and “internet of things” solutions. Chris Pope, vice president of strategy at ServiceNow Inc., shared some insights into how the company has restructured itself to tackle ...
Air New Zealand: developing IT service solutions with a change management approach
As with all product development, the key for developing an information technology service module is understanding the true needs the end users. In order to reduce any wasted development effort on an undesirable product, Air New Zealand Ltd. adopted a clever agile-based approach for determining the right IT product to build for its employees. “We made ...
Accenture goes beyond IT departments with ServiceNow solutions
As more business operations are transformed into digital processes, the platform upon which they are built needs to aggregate all sources of data into a single access point to ensure a seamless experience. As a ServiceNow Inc. global strategic partner, Accenture PLC is helping enterprises better handle their digital transformations with the company’s recent deployments and acquisitions aimed at enhancing ...
Syncsort enables mainframe modernization with Splunk analytics
As Splunk Inc.’s share of the information technology analytics market continues to grow, its partners are finding opportunities for adding value to the Splunk platform and their mutual customers. Syncsort Inc., a company that extends Splunk’s data analytics and security platform into mainframe environments, just unveiled a new product called Transaction Tracing that adds more visibility into ...