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Massive data pushes cold-footed healthcare companies to edge, cloud
Where in the world should healthcare data reside? The question has historically filled regulators with fear and stunted the market for healthcare data analytics. But both data itself and the potential of analysis with artificial intelligence are growing too great to ignore. Thus, institutions are increasingly looking for safe spaces for data off-premises. “We talk to ...
Dynamic SD-WAN dances with distributed apps in multicloud
Distributed software applications are asking a lot of the computing network. It used to be just underlying plumbing, but the network now must dance along with real-time applications in multicloud and edge computing environments. Software-defined wide area networking has been proposed as the solution to other wonky modern-IT problems. Can it whack this one too? ...
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Evolved VMware platform aimed at pulling employee experience together
Digital transformation and remote-work trends are inspiring innovative employee experience software. There are more work applications, mobile devices and logins in the new corporate landscape. They may result in sprawl that is difficult for employees to handle. The complexity calls for an improved digital interface for end-user computing, according to Shankar Iyer (pictured), senior vice president ...
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This app tweaks the smartphone into a digital bodyguard
Consider all of the functions that exist in a smartphone — GPS, video recording, face detection and the like. Mobile applications that creatively combine them can achieve some pretty neat stuff. But Some app developers are gunning for better than neat. They want to solve social problems and maybe even save lives. Consider the application these ...
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Student app makers want to give India’s orphans stand-in grandparents
Healthcare technology such as wearables from Fitbit Inc. can count steps and monitor heart rate and sleep quality. But what about those factors that contribute to health and well being that aren’t as easily quantified? We’ve seen that friendship and laughter can impact health; can an application bring more of them into people’s lives? Some ...
Don’t let ’em fast talk you: Diverse apps demand storage choice
Coupling diverse applications with appropriate storage can be a drama-filled matchmaking game. There’s always a better, faster storage product debuting to tempt customers away from the tried and true. But the performance of all-flash or cloud storage may not justify the cost for some apps. How can companies get their storage straight for legacy and modern ...
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Can we mobile-game our way to a cleaner, greener Earth?
Mobile games can be engrossing, even seriously addictive for some players. Hours idled away thumbing smartphone screens can get shamefully high. Wouldn’t it be great if we could spend time gaming and do something worthwhile, like save the planet, at the same time? Technology students from Kazakhstan thought so; they noticed the trash cans in their school weren’t as ...
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Can smartphones and AI bring free press to corrupt regimes?
Nonprofit organizations may push for political or societal change with a variety of tactics. They could collect signatures on petitions, ask for donations, or raise awareness via literature, web pages, etc. Others may send volunteers to help people in need. A newer type of NPO may bring the very people it serves into its own ...
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The real big-data problem and why only machine learning can fix it
Why do so many companies still struggle to build a smooth-running pipeline from data to insights? They invest in heavily hyped machine-learning algorithms to analyze data and make business predictions. But then, inevitably, they realize that algorithms aren’t magic: If they’re fed junk data, their insights won’t be stellar. So they employ data scientists who spend ...
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Safe spaces: Public venues get much-needed security tech upgrade
While cybersecurity isn’t yet foolproof against the bad guys, the field has certainly advanced in recent years. Data and machine intelligence are making threat detection easier and reducing the need for human labor. Now if only we could say the same for security in the corporeal world. Public places such as sports arenas and college campuses don’t always ...