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Can artificial intelligence save SAP?

There are persistent signs that all is not well in the land of SAP. The German enterprise applications leader is in the midst of laying off thousands of people. Its cloud efforts have sputtered. Its product line confuses customers. HANA, the in-memory columnar database that was supposed to save the company, has been eclipsed by ...
GUEST COMMENTARY

Automation and the cybersecurity skills gap: pitfalls and solutions

With a huge shortage in cybersecurity staff and automation alone unable to fill the gap, security operations centers need a new strategy. Government agencies and companies wage daily battles against sophisticated hackers and unexpected intrusions. A good security operations center should operate like a hospital emergency room where physicians rely heavily on the support of ...

Streamlio debuts cloud-native version of Apache Pulsar fast-data platform

Streamlio Inc., developer of a commercial publish-and-subscribe platform based upon the open-source Apache Pulsar project, is taking it to the cloud with what it calls a new cloud-native service for fast data. The offering, which will initially run on top of Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure, closely follows the company’s December announcement of a community version ...
ANALYSIS

RSA Conference changes the face of cybersecurity

Tens of thousands of security professionals and many hundreds of vendors came together at the massive RSA Conference in San Francisco last week for the largest enterprise cybersecurity confab in the world — and the general consensus was sobering. Bad actors have had the edge over enterprises – aka the “good guys” – for decades, and the only ...
DEEP DIVE

Blockchain, often seen as tech’s next big thing, struggles to get traction

When developers at startup Eximchain Inc. set out to build a reliable global supply chain network for companies to find business partners and guarantee the integrity of transactions, they turned to the most likely solution today: blockchain. But as they looked to build the network upon a public blockchain, they quickly ran into a fundamental ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

Wikibon’s 2018 Cloud Markets and Trends Report: The cloud moves to the data

This is a new report from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media’s sister market research company. Premise Cloud has become the default choice for greenfield applications and systems. However, cloud also is less uniform than it was a few years ago, as customers seek to serve specialized technology needs and vendors seek to serve those needs with competitively ...
COMMENTARY

Defending digital: Resist the tech backlash before it’s too late

The chief executives of the leading digital technology firms have grown used to being admired. For nearly a half-century, they’ve been portrayed as visionary, passionate and committed to building a better, smarter world. Combined with their often astonishing wealth, they have enjoyed a public profile matched by few business leaders, mixing easily in political, cultural ...
COMMENTARY

Freeing up the sales force for selling, listening and automating with AI

Sales strategy and the future of customer engagement is in my DNA. As we all see and know, agility, automation and artificial intelligence is changing the profession rapidly. AI thought leader Rob Thomas, general manager for analytics at IBM Corp., spoke recently in Boston and New York City, including an interview on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s livestreaming studio. This ...

Coming into focus: VMware’s SD-WAN plans for network virtualization

Whether gaming, streaming video, or summoning a self-driving car, the digital data thrown off by the influx of online users is driving up network traffic demands. Connected devices have created a networked “edge” to the world of cloud computing, revealing a new frontier for technologies optimized at the software level to take on the range of exploratory use cases. To ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER

True Private Cloud will lead cloud growth and innovation in 2018

Wikibon, the market research company of SiliconANGLE Media Inc., recently updated its forecast for the True Private Cloud, a fast-growing segment of the cloud computing market that involves bringing cloud technologies to where data resides, whether on-premises in data centers or at the network edge or in the public cloud. This is a summary of ...