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Are startups the perfect career switch for educated experts and academics? | #Amplify
Startups are honing in on more and more specific domains these days. Untapped markets are being identified by founders, and even quirky ideas sometimes become profitable ventures. One key to success in highly specialized apps might be prior experience in a non-tech field like medicine. We spoke with one CEO who dropped out of healthcare ...
Solving the great female founder funding vs. profits mystery | #Amplify
Looking at the stark gender divide in technology startups, different individuals will draw different conclusions. Some may chalk up the difference to hard economics; sure, gender parity is a nice idea, but if male founders bring in bigger returns, it’s not the fault of the VCs. Others have rejected this explanation and sought objective evidence ...
Digital twin technology must democratize: here’s where GE sees most value | #GEMM16
When companies talk about digitizing business, they are often referring to intellectual processes — making them more efficient through collecting, organizing and disseminating information digitally. They don’t mean taking physical assets and actually making them digital. But digital twin technology offers companies a way to conceptually do just that — some experts say the industry is just ...
Living in limbo: what to expect for utilities making the IoT transition | #GEMM16
The digitization of businesses — even traditional and brick-and-mortar-based ones — continues to spread steadily. Big industries, from oil big rigs to jet turbine manufacturers, are revamping their models from the ground up with new digital models befitting the analytical prowess underlying the Internet of Things. Power utility providers are in the middle of a major digital transformation ...
This company spun out from mobile ads to Big Data — and now helps customers do the same | #GEMM16
Mobile advertisements have turned out to have unintended uses for companies; rather than simply helping them sell a product or service in the ad, they also provide a feedback loop of insight about their customers. Customers’ responses in aggregate are essentially big data. So it should not be surprising when a company that started in mobile ...
Industrial strength: How the Internet of Things is grappling with scalability | #GEMM16
Industrial Internet of Things deals in big stuff — big companies, big assets, big analytic tasks. Thus, building a user-friendly platform to serve this market poses challenges, number one of which is scale. How will companies perform analytics on large numbers of physical assets in need of digital representation? Machine learning and virtualized replicas can ...
Infinidat’s new innovation lab doubles as datacenter playground | #theCUBE
What happens when a company puts together an innovation lab, a briefing center and a product showcase? Well, when Infinidat did just that in Waltham, Mass., it created a veritable magnet for customers, channel partners and collaborators from across North America. This is according to the company’s Chief Marketing Officer Randy Arseneau. Arseneau spoke to Stu Miniman ...
Self storage: Freeing up the team for the new cloud-compute world | #theCUBE
DevOps and containers are freeing up developers from “plumbing” concerns and allowing them to work and innovate high up the stack. Will advances in storage allow storage pros to graduate from grunt work in a similar way? Infinidat Inc. says companies using their InfiniBox storage array are seeing just such a change in their storage ...
Hyper-storage: inside the bleeding-edge of datacenter innovation | #theCUBE
It’s difficult to think of a single area in IT that has in the past two years progressed the way that storage has. Increasing speeds, all-flash arrays and Non-Volatile Memory Express have ratcheted storage to unprecedented levels of performance. However, it is still challenging for enterprises to choose among the storage types available, especially as ...
Can an on-prem-cloud hybrid service solve companies’ open-source quandary? | #KubeCon
Companies wanting to stay on tech’s bleeding edge face a bit of a quandary these days: Most agree that the latest, greatest software is happening in open source; however, the job of curating and operating it is too messy for the IT teams at most businesses. We spoke with one startup co-founder who believes they’ve ...