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Can app-level abstractions rescue new networks from their complexity?
What’s a bigger, hairier chore than provisioning a network fit for modern distributed information technology? Perhaps maintaining all its winding, intersecting trafficways day in and day out. This requires a set of all-seeing eyes that spot issues before they cause serious problems. “You can’t use tools that were built 20 years ago to continue operating ...
Telco cloud is new weapon of service providers vs. hyperscalers
Service providers are swimming surprisingly well with hyperscale-cloud hammerheads. In fact, cloud technologies give them fertile new ground on which to build novel offerings. They’re looking specifically at the telecommunication cloud and 5G networking to alter their services and their delivery modes. “The [service provider] market is going through a mass scale transformation — a ...
New data services are older companies’ key to staying relevant
The companies of tomorrow will flounder or float depending on how well they serve customers with data. Today, established companies can and should juice their data for improved services to stay relevant. Those established companies keeping pace with startups are smartly leveraging their data in new ways. “I say to banks, ‘You don’t need to ...
Meet the new boss: Smarter tech gives power to employees
What will work look like in the smart, connected, internet-enabled future? New technology supporting edge computing, from 5G networks to machine learning, means employees can ditch the cubicle and work remotely. It could also make workers so efficient they could whittle their work week down to four days. Advancing tech will give employees a bigger say in how ...
‘Docujams’ and other ways to pump data with people power
Many employees fantasize about the day when they can sleep in and let data do their jobs for them. While data-analytics software is getting sharper, humans are nowhere near out of the loop yet. Savvy makers and users of data software are incorporating human elements in new, productive, and even fun ways. Aaron Kalb (pictured), ...
New ‘data platform’ with AI, APIs whips up instant gratification
Move on out, data lake. Companies no longer have patience for huge vats of random, unorganized data. Today, they want usable, analytics-ready data at their fingertips. It’s a tall order, but technologies like artificial intelligence and application program interfaces are making it a reality. They’re important building blocks of what some are calling the “data platform” ...
Veeam’s anti-lock-in and on-the-fly for fickle hybrid customers
Today, companies are up in the air about practically everything in information technology. They want to run on-premises, in public cloud, and in private cloud. Innovative new technologies tantalize them, and they change their minds as new products hit the market at a rapid pace. How does a vendor serve this uncertain, constantly shifting market? ...
How a hybrid-cloud MSP meets messy storage demands
Customers love all the choices of public cloud computing, but hate having to sort through, combine, and implement them for specific business goals. This has refreshed market opportunities for managed service providers. Some now help businesses understand and implement public cloud solutions, as well as provide their own unique services. They have to cover more ...
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Bitnami aims to make open source so easy, enterprises can do it
Many companies no doubt envy the all open-source elite — companies that chucked proprietary software in favor innovative, rapidly upgraded operating system technologies. But they don’t envy the work of the information technology personnel that must run it day-in-day-out. Combining the perfect mix of OS software for production in enterprises is still a pretty messy ...
Workers get stuff done with custom AI/RPA micro apps
The democratization of artificial intelligence and machine learning is transforming information technology. Developers and operations teams can access intelligent tools to make sense of vast data sets and troubleshoot issues. Now AI and ML are trickling down to regular business people. Intelligent experience technology is putting AI and ML in laymen’s hands. It is enabling ...