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Social good helps tech medicine go down for younger students
Some commentators have suggested that schools aren’t doing enough to pipeline students into tech careers. Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to change that by bringing the latest cloud computing and real-world problem solving to students long before college. “One of the big things that we’re trying to do … is bring the new technologies into education,” said ...
New CX tech levels digital-commerce playing field
Think smaller merchants don’t have the technology to compete with giants such as Amazon.com in the digital age? Then look at the new, advanced but usable e-commerce and customer-experience platforms. Together with democratized social selling channels, they enable all companies to deliver the Amazon experience to customers. For example, there is Adobe Inc., which has acquired ...
Can one managed-services package cure many hybrid IT headaches?
When a company has a love/hate relationship with public cloud computing, things can get quite complicated. Having applications on-premises and in the cloud gives them a wide spread of information technology to reign in and manage. And having personnel purchase cloud products on their own can lead to runaway spending. Is there anywhere they can ...
Merchants take swing at Amazon with new social, e-commerce platforms
An e-commerce future dominated almost entirely by Amazon.com is a bleak possibility facing smaller merchants. But it isn’t the only possibility. There are other selling channels opening up on social platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp. They have the potential to lure sellers and buyers and starve some market-share bulk out of Amazon. It’s hard to ...
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Companies do a tense tango with new data privacy laws
As big data is transforming industries, data analysis is the new competitive advantage in business. But the flip side is that data misuse could land companies in court or put them out of business. Since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations went live a year ago, businesses have been scrambling to comply without hurting innovation or thinning revenue streams. Data privacy ...
Enterprise is crying out for consumer UX, says Nutanix
Has anybody counted all the things the pancake-thin rectangles we all carry around in our pockets can do? The variety of applications and programs a smartphone can run seems to expand constantly. Why is there no copy of this paradigm of do-it-all consumer tech in the enterprise? Wouldn’t companies love a smartphone user experience in ...
Red Hat talks project vs. product in enterprise open source
A lot of companies are ditching proprietary technology products in favor of open-source software. Others find they’re not quite ready to forgo vendor support. This is where the open-source as a service business model comes in. The difference between open-source projects and plug-and-play products can sometimes confuse customers, according to Paul Cormier (pictured), president of products ...
Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab scraps proprietary prefab for open source
Securing a nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile sounds like scarily sensitive, classified work. What type of technology is worthy of such a task? Custom-made, proprietary stuff with all associated components and code unknown to the public? Not at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The facility is a big user of and contributor to open source, ...
Nutanix taps partners VMware, HPE to feed market’s turnkey need
Nutanix Inc. built its brand on compressing and compacting technologies together. It began with hyperconverged infrastructure and has since spun out various software offerings. It continues its mission to integrate and stitch multiple pieces into a single, easy user experience. Nutanix is designing solutions that include its own product portfolio, as well as product form ...
How Delta’s legacy ‘baggage’ is helping it soar through DX
What can a 90-year-old company bring to today’s digital, data-driven, mobile economy? Are they necessarily handicapped compared to younger companies with less legacy baggage? Delta Air Lines Inc. is sallying into the world of modern information technology and actually blending in its old stuff — and staff — for the better. “Legacy’s like a four-letter ...