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Mapwize and Cisco put eyes, ears and analytics in buildings
GPS systems and Google Maps have helped countless lost drivers reach their destinations. What about patients lost in a maze of hospital hallways? Or students rushing to make a class on a winding college campus? Wi-Fi 6, sensors and mapping tech are birthing a new breed of navigation and monitoring applications. “What we see is ...
Cisco DevNet’s nitty-gritty projects churn out real-world code, apps
Cisco Systems Inc. is doing its share to speed up the application-development spin cycle. Its DevNet community projects have hundreds of thousands of developers and infrastructure pros writing, tweaking and sharing code. They’re contributing code back into Cisco’s community, to open source, and putting it in production at their companies. Over 75% of the content ...
The new rules for monitoring hectic modern IT Ops
The new cloud-computing environments may be lighter and less clunky than older information technology systems. But they’re not necessarily less complex. They’re made of many compounded services and abstraction layers. They require a new set of binoculars to monitor the busy, ephemeral goings-on inside them. The key is to shift from monitoring devices or nodes to ...
Stanford lab brings gender-bias ‘intervention’ to tech companies
There has been a lot of talk lately about bias in computing code and artificial-intelligence models. It’s perhaps not surprising, considering the demographic skew in most companies that develop these technologies. The issue is inspiring new efforts to keep human bias out of tech companies and products. VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University examines ...
25-year women-in-tech vet on education pipeline vs. workplace bias
Tech companies all over Silicon Valley regularly take heat for the lack of diversity among their employees. There are many different opinions as to why gender and ethnic representation is so skewed. Early education, pipeline deficiencies, bias in management, and genetic factors have all been suggested. One woman who’s worked in technology for 25 years ...
Digital-twin tech reigns in runaway network complexity
Networking technology is undergoing renovations. Vendors are bringing out products that flip the network for multicloud and distributed information technology. These new network types can be a complex, layered handful from an operational perspective. Without visibility into the entire network, operations teams are left guessing about the effects of changes to their systems. Improved network ...
New, improved management cures cloud-networking reliability snafus
There’s no cloud computing without real, live computers somewhere on Earth. Physical infrastructure is alive and well for builders of both public and private clouds. In fact, hardware vendors are innovating advanced gear specifically for cloud, with networking being a key area of new development. “Cloud computing is changing the world, and the cloud data ...
Edge-to-AI platform brings distributed data on home to analysts
In analytics, the rule is that the larger the data set, the sharper the insights. But distributed IT, hybrid environments, and internet of things edge devices divide data into disparate pockets. It can be challenging for companies to haul it all in for holistic analytics. “If you’re a real data scientist, you want to have ...
Digital workers ply AI across apps to get job done quicker
Artificial intelligence within one application can assist users with predictions and insights. AI that works across applications — performing tasks, analyzing documents, etc. — does more. It can function as a digital worker that quickly does jobs humans would slog through all day. The idea of a robot that could work on a person’s behalf ...
Automation Anywhere serves up platform to public for free
Can automation really make all of us better at our jobs? Secretaries, writers, astronomers, Uber drivers, sous-chefs? It may sound like a stretch, but it’s the gist of Automation Anywhere Inc.’s mission to democratize automation. To test the theory, it’s serving its whole suite to the masses for free in its new community edition. Automation, artificial intelligence, analytics, ...