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Analysts talk SAP’s software as a strategy: Keynote highlights from Sapphire Now 2017
During today’s SAP Sapphire Now keynote address in Orlando, Florida, Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board of SAP SE, Products & Innovation, said that software needs to become a strategy for enterprises. He observed that for businesses today, openness is a game changer, allowing machine integration and understanding of customer behaviors. He also said ...
Demo of SAP’s new Leonardo IoT platform at Sapphire Now keynote
“We’ve been turning empathy into action at SAP,” said Bill McDermott (pictured), chief executive officer of SAP SE during the company’s annual Sapphire Now conference. Kicked off today in Orlando, Florida, the keynote address emphasized SAP’s latest cloud products for enterprise processes, including new features for the popular S/4Hana platform and a demo of Leonardo as SAP ...
How this bookmaking business uses OpenStack to run fast and flexible
Paddy Power Betfair plc, a U.K.-based bookmaking business, was one of two winners who shared the title of OpenStack Superuser at last week’s OpenStack Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. The company built out a DevOps and continuous delivery model for developer, with OpenStack as the middleware. It migrated 25 percent of production applications onto OpenStack in a ...
Don’t be ‘Uberized’: Traditional companies push to transform digitally
Many enterprises today are terrified of being “Airbnbized” or “Uberized,” scared of being surpassed by a company in their industry that is using technology in a disruptive, revolutionary way that they had never considered, according to Marius Haas, president and chief commercial officer at Dell EMC. That is such a huge fear that many traditional brick-and-mortar ...
Navigating the ‘data ocean’, Project Nautilus streamlines real-time analytics
A whole new universe of data is being produced by the Internet of Things devices, connected cars, wind sensors, smart TVs, activity trackers; essentially, anything that generates data. That information not only needs to be stored for later reference, enterprises are looking to run real-time analysis on the data sets, immediately. Until recently, organizations have ...
How the Dell EMC merger affected midrange storage solutions
Last year’s historic Dell EMC merger left countless questions in its wake. How best to combine product lines? What about customers of both industry giants? How could the newly formed computing provider balance the needs of existing customers? And how could Dell EMC present a united front to those customers, smoothing over the knowledge transfer that must ...
Shazam ITS moves to automated data backups, streamlines ops and ups security
The data coming into enterprises today is doing so at a rapid pace, while at the same time its importance is increasing. Newer technologies such as machine learning and smart learning process the raw data, using it for technological and business-related purposes. So, is the huge amount of data pouring into organizations protected? Moreover, can ...
Managing the upcoming ‘data tsunami’ with solid state drives
Not too long ago, floppy disks could handle the vast majority of storage needs. But now, the incoming waves of data from not just computers — but also electronic devices, apps, internet refrigerators, sensors, smart TVs and so on — need to be loaded, stored, processed and analyzed in a timely fashion. “If you think ...
Hello Alice aims to disrupt startup world, connect female entrepreneurs to resources, working capital
While access to capital, mentorship and networks are critical to the success of male and female entrepreneurs, women who start businesses have a more difficult time getting the help that they need, especially when it comes to financing. Women receive just 3 percent of venture capital in the U.S., a dismal statistic, according to Carolyn Rodz ...
Preparing for a new software-led networking world
Networking was a hot topic at this week’s OpenStack Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the most notable use cases discussed during the Summit was Verizon’s Software-Defined Networking-Network Function Virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment across five of its U.S. data centers. But while the network industry has been discussing SDN for the past five or so years ...