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How automation is revolutionizing outage management
Fifteen minutes can be saved when troubleshooting an outage, simply by automating the mundane diagnostics data collection required to start analysis, according to Sean Scott (pictured), chief product officer of PagerDuty Inc. Those initial tasks, such as checking the memory, verifying that the CPU is still looking good, and so on, are ideal work for automation, ...
OS consistency solves Linux talent issues, says RHEL executive
The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux, released during the recent Red Hat Summit, caters to rapidly escalating hardware development occurring throughout tech, along with a growing Linux admin skills shortage. RHEL 9 performs the combo double act, in part, by more efficiently optimizing the operating system, according to Gunnar Hellekson (pictured), general manager of the Enterprise Linux ...
Intel creates new developer ecosystem for edge environments
The edge is becoming significantly more important as attempts to reduce latency and address security concerns take hold in modern compute. That shift, though, introduces new ways of working for developers because now compute, storage, cloud and all of the ancillary elements that developers have to work with merge, according to a developer solutions executive ...
New database architectures needed for improved real-time analytics, says Imply Data CTO
Analytics must be thought of as an intrinsic software layer, says an executive behind a real-time analytics database geared specifically toward powering analytical applications. The reason is that as companies shift business to the internet, they’re generating massive amounts of valuable data. That data needs to be taken advantage of and developed as a part ...
Radical market shifts lead the enterprise beyond traditional databases, says Imply CEO
As the world turns to an always-on digital society, organizations increasingly require databases for analytics and rapid decision-making. Now, a major shift is under way as to how companies manage their databases. Experts believe the key is to structure database implementation so that developers don’t have to think about complexities. That’s what FJ Yang (pictured), ...
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Unstoppable Domains promotes blockchain, digital identity and Web3 solutions in Asia and Europe
Gen Z, Millennials, women and unbanked people in rapidly developing parts of the world are among the target market for Unstoppable Domains Inc., a blockchain-based domain name company that intends to disrupt the domains business. The company is providing self-sovereign identity management on Web3, a new iteration of the World Wide Web based on blockchain ...
Innovation at the edge: A global systems integrator weighs in
Hackers are going to get in. There’s too much money in attacking, and it’s significantly cheaper to steal than to set up real businesses. The key is to get ahead of the bad guys using the cloud and cutting-edge technology, according to Walton Smith (pictured), public sector director of strategic partnerships at World Wide Technology Inc. ...
Startups are taking advantage of AWS at a whole new level
Building companies with entirely new serverless-style architectures is becoming completely normal. It’s indeed now so accepted, for the tech-savvy, that those who find themselves having to spin-up a sever, for one reason or another, look at that server-launch as an imperfection in their vision. “It’s almost this attitude of: If I’ve had to spin up a ...
Scaled customer relationships are about to get a lot more personal, says Peak AI
The retail industry will be a significant benefactor of artificial intelligence-based decision intelligence, according to DI software market leader Peak AI Ltd. The company believes that decision-making and intelligence with applied AI will revolutionize the market by allowing companies to treat customers as individuals as opposed to as a group. “In the past, we bucketed ...
Sisense weighs in on the next generation of business intelligence
The way to ingrain data and analytics into a company’s culture isn’t by converting the company workers into data-hungry consumers of the stuff. It’s by hiding the data so that employees can carry on with their usual routines and tasks without being intimidated by the absorbing of new intelligence, like dashboards, for example. “Make data ...