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Q&A: VMware maintains consistent vision after big acquisitions, says CMO
For almost a decade, VMware Inc.’s work in virtualization software and services has brought it to a competitive path to hybrid cloud computing. It has amped up its acquisition strategy, including the multibillion-dollar deal for Pivotal Software and Carbon Black Inc., to provide better application development and security across all major cloud platforms. Although companies such as these ...
Q&A: How IBM brings internal AI solutions to market
IBM’s internal collaboration process is helping its customers in their artificial intelligence journey — from feeding and collecting data to building AI models around that data. The data scientists can gain valuable insights from those models and make critical decisions. IBM’s AI Accelerator team does all the internal testing and hands it over the Data Science Elite ...
Q&A: Swiss Re, IBM reveal AI, cloud insights for today’s enterprise
Just as the human organism can slowly self-heal, so do new artificial-intelligence models. AI can be trained to watch and fix its own problems. Undoubtedly, there are many dangers inherent in AI algorithms — from self-driving commercial truck fleets, trading and financial predictions, or even health decisions, the risk is there. So how are companies dealing with these ...
Q&A: The awkward, exciting and crucial disruption of data
To create a good business strategy, start by building a solid data foundation. The path begins when a business delivers data to support decisions, so leadership can learn the facts, let go of preconceived notions and use the data to gain real insights. Once data is employed in building bridges across the troublesome chasms of business operations, decision-makers can start leveraging the ...
Q&A: Data democratization spurs more secure data-governance frameworks
Vast amounts of data are being created every day, spurring an economy entrusting data as an asset arguably more valuable than crude oil. This explosion of big data quickly started the trend for data democratization, to make data packets easier to share with the help of specialized software. The downside is that every opportunity to share data is ...
Q&A: Veeam’s data-wrangling strategy expands product portfolio
Veeam Software Inc. is refocusing its strategy to become a more dominant player in the multicloud era of modern data management, where data can live anywhere and moving it across clouds only expands the threat plane. The backup, disaster and recovery provider aims to be the most reliable in the data management market, according to Danny Allan, ...
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Q&A: Getting the right AI is like getting the right plumber
It is often said that “data is the new oil.” The tools we use daily generate lots of it, and it is the fuel behind artificial intelligence, which is already integrated into many applications that we use. With so much data, we have moved from databases, to data warehouses, to data lakes, and Microsoft Corporate ...
Q&A: Veeam’s plans to tackle larger waves in the multicloud ocean
Veeam Software Inc. has built a billion-dollar business in the data protection space, and is setting sights on a red ocean of competition. Tackling the next big wave in multicloud data management, Veeam wants to be the best storage protection partner amongst hybrid cloud platforms. Following the keynote at last week’s VeeamON event in Miami Beach, ...
Q&A: Make-A-Wish leverages vast tech network to grant wishes each year
Technology is a true advantage for anyone that knows how to use it. But being tech-savvy is not enough. Leaders running the technology in non-profit organizations must find the right balance between investing in the latest tech and executing the social cause. Make-A-Wish Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is an NGO that grants life-changing wishes for children ...
Q&A: The data-first approach to digital transformations and customer engagement
Within the last decade, enterprises started to build portals, mobile applications, or anything they thought might engage customers on a sustained basis. But they soon realized those investments weren’t always converting to revenue and customer satisfaction. Many secrets lie in consumer data, and thanks to the high availability to create and feed data anytime and anywhere, any business can ...