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Service as a service: AWS beefs up Marketplace with new reseller options
Amazon Web Services is calling on its partners to help expand the cloud compute giant further into the enterprise with a massive expansion of the AWS Marketplace. The cloud giant today rolled out a handful of new back-end features and options at its virtual re:Invent event, all aimed at letting third parties offer new subscription ...
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KubeCon 2020 hindsight: The ultimate abstraction of the cloud native community
We can look back on the recent virtual KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2020 event as marking the inflection point of Kubernetes becoming a ubiquitous architectural unit of enterprise computing of the future. More than 25,000 attended online, and millions more have downloaded hundreds of unique cloud native project binaries and packaged distributions at every stage of development — ...
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Navigating the post-COVID future of work: New challenges require new digital technologies
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for digital transformation across organizations of all stripes. If companies were not already well underway with their digital transformation before the pandemic, they almost certainly are now. Post-COVID, this transformation will only accelerate. Around the world, the companies that are furthest along on their transformation journeys are better equipped to manage and ...
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Before machine learning can become ubiquitous, here are four things we need to do now
It wasn’t too long ago that concepts such as communicating with your friends in real time through text or accessing your bank account information all from a mobile device seemed outside the realm of possibility. Today, thanks in large part to the cloud, these actions are so commonplace, we hardly even think about these incredible ...
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These are the top 5 enterprise questions on containers and Kubernetes
Despite having been around for over a decade, containers have significantly grown in popularity and adoption over the past few years. In fact, by 2025, more than 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 35% in 2019. The dramatic rise of containers and ...
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Data firehose: Next generation of streaming technologies goes cloud-native
Real-time streaming data has become a reality for an increasing number of enterprise applications. From the “internet of things” to artificial intelligence, from mobile analytics to a diverse range of big-data challenges, dealing with firehoses of information in real time is rapidly becoming standard fare for enterprise information technology. Over the years, many technologies have ...
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Four steps to accelerate the journey to machine learning
This is the golden age of machine learning. Once considered peripheral, machine learning technology is becoming a core part of businesses around the world. From healthcare to agriculture, fintech to media and entertainment, machine learning holds great promise for industries universally. Although standing up machine learning projects can seem daunting, ingraining a machine learning-forward mindset ...
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Working from home is here to stay, but companies must do much more to get ready for it
It has been nearly six months since I last stepped foot in the office, and in that time, remote work has transitioned from a pandemic-induced necessity to a permanent feature of the corporate landscape. Personally, I’ve enjoyed a reprieve from years of commuting and frequent business travel, and by the looks of it, I’m not ...
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Meet GitOps, the key to launching effective software releases in the cloud-native era
The automation story behind DevOps centers on CI/CD, the continuous integration and continuous deployment that results in working code ready for production. Deployment isn’t the end of the process, however. Releasing code is the missing step — putting new software in front of customers and end-users while ensuring it meets the ongoing objectives of the ...
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Three steps to design security for the remote-work-first enterprise
Remote work muscled itself to the top of every security and risk manager’s agenda when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Whereas remote work was previously the exception, up to 82% of company leaders now plan to permit remote working at least some of the time as workplaces begin to reopen. Designing a durable enterprise-scale remote work ...