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Can marrying data and ops make the difference between crawling and running to profits? | #theCUBE
Why are companies trying to get the lead in digital innovation? Is it because the software tools that facilitate it are so neat? Or because the tech media makes the subject sound so fascinating? No, the answer is simply because customers are demanding a streamlined digital experience, and if businesses don’t deliver it, they will ...
Drowning in data lakes? Rocana Ops 2.0’s data ‘nervous system’ answers the call | #theCUBE
Businesses need to balance the equation of exploding data stores and relatively stable numbers of IT staffers. They are finding they can’t keep the pace with operations in the Digital Age by endlessly punting tasks around to many different siloed departments. Most of the options that come to mind seem impractical or cost ineffective. IT ops ...
VP says she climbed the tech ladder to Amazon by learning ‘innovation as a skill’ | #theCUBE
Creative innovation is a coveted trait in many industries — particularly technology. Yet it is arguably not well understood, and its processes are not plainly explained. Seeing how valuable innovation is not only to tech companies, but to individuals and whole societies, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec said that it ought to be taught as a skill. Tomsen Bukovec, ...
Can cloud-native data protection solve enterprise security’s ‘M&M problem?’ | #theCUBE
No matter how many benefits the cloud has going for it, there is always that on-prem hold-out who will say, “Yeah, but what about security?” And many will concede the cloud is weaker in that area than traditional data centers — but is it? Or is the old faithful on-prem firewall a paper tiger that ...
Why culture and teamwork are as important as tech in this company’s cloud strategy | #theCUBE
With the dizzying array of technology products available to enterprises today, managers and CTOs may wonder where to start. Do they really need five clouds, a plethora of Software as a Service applications and an integration platform to do business in the Digital Age? We spoke to one engineer about how to get the most ...
Is multi-cloud security at mass scale the sum of tiny tasks done constantly? | #theCUBE
Sprawled out, multi-cloud environments have tons of endpoints that leave data vulnerable to security threats. Perhaps one day a vendor will bring to market a set-it-and-forget-it blanket security product; today is not that day. For now companies will need to be diligent watchmen over all these endpoints — but at least there are some solutions ...
Tech ‘her-archy’: What the satisfaction gap says about the achievement gap | #theCUBE
While opinions differ on the subject of achievement gaps between genders in technology careers, new research looks at women’s job satisfaction at different levels within the industry to uncover where the struggles lay and what may be key to overcoming them. The good news is most women in tech report overall satisfaction with their jobs, explained Julie Parker. ...
Of automation and autonomy: Open-source tool automates cloud deployment (with layovers) | #theCUBE
The more processes developers and engineers can automate, techies say, the faster and more advanced their applications will become. However, certain processes are not yet ripe to have human brains taken completely out of the equation. Deploying code to the cloud is one of those tasks that benefit from a mix of automation and human ...
Did cloud quit its mission to simplify? Boomi brings more cloud integration to the enterprise | #theCUBE
It’s getting difficult to argue unequivocally that the cloud “simplifies” infrastructure. When Amazon.com Inc. announced 1,000 new tweaks and updates to AWS at its re:Invent conference last week, some customers wondered if the cloud had become as complex as their old data centers. Nevertheless, due to cost savings and market demand for the innovation cloud enables, they ...
VMware: Networking must align to new microservices-based applications | #theCUBE
The digital transformation sweeping across many companies has relied on new applications based on microservices distributed across on-premises data centers and public clouds. But networking needs to catch up to these new applications for that digital transformation to take off in a big way. Will 2017 be the year that software-defined networking finally breaks through? ...