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There are television shows and Broadway productions that haven’t lasted as long as this year’s Google Cloud Next. Now seven weeks into its nine-week run, Google Cloud’s signature event was extended from its previous three-day in-person gathering to a series of weekly …
Ogmagod employs natural language processing to empower users with actionable intelligence
The field of natural language processing is gradually evolving, and one startup is channeling its ability to scan unstructured information about companies and business relationships and extract meaningful insight. This can be especially helpful to sales teams, as Ogmagod Inc. is discovering …
Open source shows its enterprise value as CNCF moves through its fifth year
As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation marks its fifth year of operation, the group’s growing range of projects highlights an important milestone for open-source computing. With continued expansion of the cloud native community and more companies, including many of the world’s largest …
Red Hat’s OpenShift helps users deploy AI and machine-learning solutions
Banks demand security and compliance across mission-critical environments, and one of the largest financial institutions in the world relies on Red Hat Inc. and OpenShift to deploy data-intensive workloads using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Royal Bank of Canada and its …
OpenTelemetry project gathers momentum as KubeCon Europe goes virtual
While microservices have become standard for architecting software applications, there remains a nagging problem for developers: how to monitor and observe issues within an application through hundreds or thousands of microservices running across numerous hosts. Profiling and analyzing application code using specialized …
Watch Live: CNCF meets demand for Kubernetes skills as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 kicks off
When a project or program grows 50%, that’s generally considered reasonable progress. 100%? Outstanding. 500%? Amazing. 1,000%? Over the top. Then there is growth of 2,100%, which is the approximate percentage reported by TechRepublic for the share of Kubernetes jobs per million …
IBM banks on continued expansion of its financial services public cloud
When a company wants to move beyond single-digit share of the public cloud infrastructure market and gain a significant presence in an industry vertical where less than 10% of institutions primarily deploy workloads in the public cloud, it takes a game plan …
As companies scramble to avoid disruption, MemSQL enables faster innovation
In his position as co-chief executive officer of MemSQL Inc., Raj Verma (pictured), has plenty of conversations every week with top executives across a wide range of industries. The topics are varied, but inevitably one question usually gets asked. “One of the …
Maxar develops high-performance computing solution to accelerate weather forecasting
When a major storm threatens industrial facilities, 100 minutes is a lot of time. That’s the average period it takes to process available global data to make weather predictions, so Maxar Technologies Inc. embarked on a project to speed that up. Working …
Nutanix extends Clusters offering to include AWS for hybrid-cloud management
When it comes to managing workloads and applications in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix Inc. has borrowed a slogan popularized by one well-known athletic brand: Just do it. Nutanix announced an extension of its Clusters scale-out hyperconverged storage offering that will now be …