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Private cloud with Kubernetes is Botox for legacy apps
Ah, to be a young startup with zero on-premises baggage, free to play the cloud-native field. Okay, stop daydreaming. Most companies have plenty of legacy applications they can’t kill and resurrect in cloud-native form. They have to figure out where to fit them on the long, winding continuum from legacy monolith to born-in-cloud. “That’s really where ...
IBM’s global ‘boot camps’ get real business results from new tech
In a perfect world, new technologies would have labels that say exactly which business problems they solve. In the real world, organizations must make educated guesses and try them out for themselves. Accelerating that trial process can help them yay or nay different technologies quicker. Coaching clients along this trial process is one aim of IBM ...
When code is the company: Logging’s need for speed in software-first world
The software-driven economy is putting the heat on data logging, metrics and tracing technologies. Traditional tools of this type aren’t quite cutting it for application-first, digital companies. A bit of downtime or poor performance for a mostly brick-and-mortar business with an app is manageable. If a company’s application is its business, they could drive users ...
AR/VR smartphone apps will make you better at your job
How many of us are aware that we already own an augmented/virtual reality device? Smartphones ship wired for all kinds of AR/VR use cases, and advances in network computing are about to make smartphone extended-reality, known as XR, mainstream. First stop: Workplace training and productivity. Super-fast 5G networking is the main enabler, according to Armando Ortiz (pictured), ...
Analytics mine consumer brains in new ‘experience economy’
Vendors talk plenty about getting companies closer to customers through big data trends, but are they delivering? Can data really pry open the skulls of customers and see what they think about products and services? A new customer-experience domain is open up called the “experience economy,” according to Scot Henney (pictured, left), global vice president of ...
Tuning teams and tech for security skills shortage
What does a large enterprise need most in the event of a security breach? It turns out it’s not an entire galaxy of years-old point solutions. Nor is it a bunch of confused staffers behaving like The Three Stooges. Cutting the complexity of security programs is a crucial step in effective cyberdefense these days, said Mary ...
Are click-and-drag business people the future of AI?
Say a company adopts a big-data framework and puts all of its information in a data lake. Then it has it’s resident data scientists go in and carefully cleanse, wrangle and label the data. Think this company is doing data science, the kind that leads to artificial intelligence? Think again. “None of that is data science,” ...
JPMorgan balances risk and reward with AI model checker
Are machine-learning and artificial-intelligence models ready for prime time? Can organizations let them loose and allow intelligent technologies to act on their behalf, making decisions that affect customers? A special team at IBM Corp. is tuning the educated-guess engine that is a predictive-analytics model. It wants to up the educated factor, reduce the guess factor, and ...
Cloud-native networking for DevOps leaves SDN in the dust
Cloud-native and DevOps are terms we hear a lot lately. Businesses using these types of tools can generally innovate and deploy faster. That is what agile, digital business is all about. But some businesses using cloud-native and DevOps tooling have networks stuck in a monolithic, legacy time warp. This could stymie the pace of application development and ...
A recipe for cloud innovation in months, not years
A heaping pile of new technology does not a business solution make. That is not to say cloud, serverless computing and open-source software tools are useless. But defining a business problem before going shopping can drastically reduce time to value, according to Stephanie Trunzo (pictured), worldwide vice president of IBM Cloud Garage at IBM Corp. “People ...