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Pure Storage focuses on fast file and fast object with FlashBlade platform
Cloud-only strategies have given way to hybrid computing solutions that allow businesses to pick and choose between on-premises and cloud storage. With security an ever-present concern, keeping rarely accessed and sensitive data on-prem just makes sense. Yet in an ideal scenario, hybrid brings the speed, agility, and cost savings of cloud down into the data center. ...
How MassMutual keeps big data under control and accessible across its hybrid environment
Dealing with big data is a big deal. Especially if you’re a centuries-old financial services company sitting on terabytes of confidential information. Storing the data securely is challenge number one. But static data doesn’t earn its keep in today’s digital economy. “You want to be able to use that data,” said Joe Gonzalez (pictured), Vertica ...
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Full STEAM ahead: Diverse education is essential for careers in data science
There are many stories hidden in data, and companies are always searching for insights. Revealing those stories often falls to the data science teams who build the models and creates the algorithms which seek out the wisdom within the data. But, as changing the point of view changes any narrative, the way in which data is ...
AppDynamics joins the dots in Cisco’s roadmap to multicloud
It’s taken just a couple of decades for humanity to develop a digital reflex. The consulting of connected devices has become second nature, and software applications are now the primary interface between a business and its customers. This means app performance has become business-critical. Customers demand speed, accuracy and accessibility. And apps are the primary source of the digital era’s ...
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Creating resilient, sustainable water supplies means flipping the management paradigm
Humanity is dependent on water, but modern methods have major flaws. Perhaps today’s technology can help. For millennium, settlements were centered on water supplies and drought signaled disaster. The Egyptians were the first to manage the critical resource; diverting the Nile flood waters using a series of dams and canals in a major irrigation project ...
Q&A: Coursera uses student skill tracking data to help companies create a more diverse workforce
Distance learning has been around since the late 18th century, when students received assignments via mail, completed them, and sent them back for grading. Today, massive open online courses, known as MOOC’s, can have hundreds of thousands of students. Some of the most popular free lectures on YouTube, such as Stanford University’s lecture on Einstein’s theory ...
AI works to slash drug development costs as technology and biology join forces to defeat Eroom’s Law
The convergence of previously discrete fields is a hallmark of the digital era. Remember the divide between development and operations teams? That gap vanished into the cloud, as DevOps became the new way of working. Now technology is becoming incorporated into other disciplines. In the 1990s, quantitative biology took a leap from a descriptive science to ...
Unapologetically ambitious: How a woman of color beat the odds and became a CEO
With black history month and International Women’s Day fresh on our minds, theCUBE speaks with one woman who has become a role model for overcoming the odds in the diversity-challenged world of the technology sector. As a teenager, Shellye Archambeau had a big dream: to become a CEO. But in a pre-World Wide Web society, her role models ...
How far has gender equality come? Tech insiders share their insights
Three decades of male dominance in computer science has seen women fighting for equal opportunity, equal pay, and equal treatment. For most of that time, the level of discrimination was quietly swept under the carpet. Then in 2013, software engineer and diversity and inclusion advocate Tracy Chou challenged big tech to publish workplace diversity figures. The resulting statistics revealed ...
As medical records are stolen and shared, data protection faces a crisis of faith
Humans love being connected. Almost 4.5 billion of us — over half the world’s population — are now online, and the number keeps growing. Our phones, tablets, televisions, watches, fitness trackers, fridges, and even lightbulbs are now smart devices. As the number of devices connecting people to the web grows, so does the ability to ...