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New collaboration emphasis emerges at Ansible
Ansible is recovering its community, post-COVID, through a combination of online and in-person collaborations. Communities that had broken-off into splinter groups are also being courted to return to the fold. “We found ourselves in a place where the community itself had more or less segmented naturally, and we needed to find ways to heal that fragmentation,” said Adam Miller (pictured, right), ...
Company innovation drives new automation expansion
Automation must be thought of strategically, because organizations are moving beyond simple automation practices. They now want to optimize it, says a Red Hat automation expert. “They’ve discovered that they can do the tactical automation,” said Walter H. Bentley (pictured), senior manager of the automation practice at Red Hat Inc. “They can deal with those small ...
Shift in cloud computing calls for enhanced automation
Security and energy costs in the data center are the two big-ticket items that enterprises are focusing on when they’re looking at how and why to implement an automation strategy, according to Scott Kinane (pictured, left), senior director for worldwide automation at information technology company Kyndryl Inc. Security compliance and reducing costs, through the better ...
Fiber backbone to be the forefront of Fourth Industrial Revolution
Acquiring, analyzing and then acting on data are among the fundamentals behind how a company shifts to technology and digitization, according to an executive at a company that was, until recently, known simply as a fiber backbone provider. The company now places itself at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “You can’t have machine learning ...
‘Shadow data’ is creeping into multicloud
The term “shadow data” is superseding the graying “shadow IT,” according to data security company Laminar Ltd., which has been developing applications to handle emerging threats. The company is talking about leaky development database environments caused by new-found freedoms generated for programmers, DevOps and so on, caused by a shift to cloud and multicloud. There are ...
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Why an AI-machine learning combo is the best approach for multicloud
Security has become a data problem, explained an executive tasked with defending multicloud environments for large companies. “The attack surface grows [using multiple clouds],” said David Hatfield (pictured), co-chief executive officer at Lacework Inc. “It’s different when you’re securing a data center or device where you have a very fixed asset and you kind of put things ...
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Multicloud requires strategy, not just adding more clouds
Analytics at scale and other drilled-down leveraging of the major cloud providers’ platforms is the basic premise behind the most recent of cloud adjectives. The tag is “supercloud,” and it’s all about concealing base-layer complications, but at the same time revealing the advantages of using combined, multiple cloud platforms — such as churning analytics across ...
How in-vehicle operating systems and edge computing will transform cars
Ski boots are among the latest consumer-facing devices employing edge for the purposes of improving customer experience. Cars, too, have entered this space. Edge computing should be no longer looked at as simply networks and computing for telco, manufacturing and retail, according to Francis Chow (pictured), vice president and general manager of in-vehicle operating system and ...
Customer service automation is about getting ahead of problems
Asking a customer multiple times what their problem is a fundamental example of customer service agent manual toil that should be replaced with automation, says an executive at a company specializing in machine learning algorithms for CS. “Having to open up a system to get the status of something and then pivot over to my ...
Automation is a must to fix complex outages, freeing up DevOps for critical tasks
Do we need a person to fix this or not? Being able to answer that question is one of the significant benefits of running machine learning on complex environments that may be going wrong. The reason: skilled workers are scarce; they also don’t like getting interrupted. “You have a very skilled worker, let’s say it’s a ...