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The human dimension of data is essential for impartial AI
Data’s takeover of society started at the turn of the twenty-first century, and its influence has steadily increased ever since. Today, algorithms shape decisions across all areas of society, and the effects resonate in people’s personal lives. Throughout history, people have been polarized by new technology. Luddites and early adopters alike have proclaimed fear or ...
WiDS women-led workshops make data science education accessible to all
Real-world applications of data science, from combatting cybersecurity to climate change, are shaping today’s world and tomorrow’s. Unfortunately, the people shaping the data that shapes the world are a homogeneous bunch: According to a 2019 study, 78% to 85% of data scientists are male. It didn’t start this way. From NASA’s human computers to the ...
Splunk clears the ‘complexity fog’ to bring observability from cloud to device
The benefits of adopting cloud are indisputable, but the resulting architectural complexity has obscured the vision of IT professionals. What was on-premises network monitoring has been magnified into a requirement for cloud-native observability across an organization’s information technology stack, from the data center to the edge. “Where an app used to be run off three different tiers in ...
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The making of Andy Jassy: greatest moments with theCUBE
As Andy Jassy prepares to step into Jeff Bezos’ shoes as chief executive officer of Amazon, theCUBE is offering a retrospective on how Jassy has shaped the enterprise computing landscape, and we will explore the changes he could bring as Amazon’s incoming CEO. “Andy now is becoming ‘Andy Jassy, the most important executive in the world,’” ...
CIOs commit random acts of cloud in 2021 as adoption becomes mission-critical
The race to cloud adoption has elevated the role of chief information officer from systems maintenance to critical strategist. True, the virtualization of the datacenter has relieved some of the CIO’s traditional burdens, but it’s hardly a fair exchange as decentralized hybrid cloud models become the norm. CIOs are now tasked with delivering strategies that ...
CTO power panel: Shaping the future of cloud at the edge
Edge computing is an adolescent market just starting a growth spurt. Its predicted surge from $3.6 billion in 2020 to $15.7 billion by 2025 comes from the enormous diversity of potential use cases. But like any talented teen, edge technology has to decide exactly what it is, where it belongs, and how it’s going to ...
Danger! Using data past its ‘best-by date’ will damage your business
High quality and newly harvested is always healthier than cheaply processed and stale. Of course, we’re talking about data here, not food, but the analogy stands. Relying on old, inaccurate data in today’s digital economy will damage a company’s performance and financial health. “It’s about the immediacy of data so that they can act accordingly,” said ...
SPECIAL COVERAGE: THECUBE ON CLOUD
Vertical clouds help enterprises correct chaos caused by ‘random acts of cloud usage’
Hidden amongst other raging trends such as edge, artificial intelligence and automation, the rise of vertical clouds seems like an obvious prediction to dominate in 2021. But cloud adoption is complex. And as cloud becomes a business imperative rather than a nice-to-have, enterprises need help to make smart and strategic choices when it comes to cloud ...
SPECIAL COVERAGE: THECUBE ON CLOUD
Cloud has handed developers new power, and they’re using it to shape the future
Cloud computing and open-source software have given developers the upper hand when it comes to decision-making. With customers and employees hopping up and down impatiently demanding apps like baby birds demanding worms, the approvals process has been discarded in the pressure to get up and running fast. “Enterprise developers have a lot more practical authority ...
SPECIAL COVERAGE: THECUBE ON CLOUD
Automation is an essential driver of post-pandemic business value
Robotic process automation was already experiencing strong growth in 2019. By the middle of 2020, the pandemic had accelerated the automation mandate, pushing adoption up 27%. And the trend is not slowing anytime soon, with Allied Market Research forecasting a compound annual growth rate of 36.4% over the next seven years. If cloud adoption is ...