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Four key revenue growth opportunities from enterprise 5G
Competitive market dynamics are driving communication service providers or CSPs to build out 5G public cellular networks amidst a great deal of uncertainty on what incremental revenues that investment will drive for them. Although 5G has been the first cellular standard designed with business needs in mind from the start, its industry-specific use cases are ...
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The evolving role of the data engineer
It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and the old days look anything but simple. Still, when it came to engineering roles, there was a fairly rudimentary breakdown: ...
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The big game is big business – for threat actors too
The numbers surrounding the National Football League’s Super Bowl LVII Sunday in Arizona are staggering. More than $150 million in bets will be placed, the host city will see upwards of $400 million in direct and indirect revenue surrounding the event day, 100 million pounds of chicken wings will be consumed and, of course, the ...
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Generative AI drives an explosion in compute: The looming need for sustainable AI
After years of preparation, 2022 highlighted the amazing potential for generative AI as models such as OpenAI LLC’s DALL-E and GPT-3 swept across the world. Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC have been training machine learning models for years, but the introduction of transformer-based large language models or LLMs that could “learn” created a ...
OneSignal extends Series C funding round with strategic investment from ServiceNow
Customer engagement platform OneSignal Inc. said today it has closed on a new strategic investment from ServiceNow Ventures. The funding, whose amount was not revealed, extends its recently announced $50 million Series C round of funding. OneSignal is the creator of a customer engagement platform that enables mobile, web, email, SMS and in-app message push ...
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The singularity (or at least a singular new tech bubble) is finally here
Amid the worst week for tech layoffs in memory to kick off 2023, Nasdaq’s worst year since 2008, and a prolonged “crypto winter” that is wiping out nearly every letter in the blockchain alphabet soup, it has been a bad time to be bullish about long-promised futures. Only the slightly delusional could take comfort in ...
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Designing a flexible work policy that creates a great employee experience
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to adopt remote and hybrid work policies causing employees and employers alike to take a step back and examine the role that work plays in our lives. That role has certainly shifted over the past two and a half years, and expectations about when, where and how we work ...
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How to demonstrate the business value of data
Extreme business disruption, uncertainty and economic headwinds demand that organizations place their bets on investments that create opportunity and value. In the past, many technology investments were made on a leap of faith. Now, information technology leaders are being asked to explain the value of what they do to other executives. When it comes to data and analytics ...
Transformative tech: Demand for cloud-native capabilities expands to more than meets than eye
For nearly a decade, the global cloud community has come together to improve enterprise technology, and by extension, the world. As demand for faster delivery, flexibility, scalability and resilience increases, so does the competition. The main way businesses optimize their cloud-native capabilities is by collaborating with a cloud partner. Since bundling together not only their ...
Accenture Security and Palo Alto Networks partner to secure cloud cybersecurity gaps
As digital threats continue to multiply in both number and severity, cybersecurity has been a growing concern for IT leaders globally. Cybersecurity consultant group Accenture Security has been named Palo Alto Network Inc.’s Government Systems Integrator of the Year for four years, embracing zero-trust network infrastructures as the pandemic shakes up the remote workforce and ...