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Containers need a lil’ help from resource optimization
Who isn’t cruising on the container bandwagon these days? They provide a virtualized means to run distributed software applications. They’re the tickets to multicloud since users can deploy them across multiple environments; they can move legacy applications to the public cloud; they’re magic. Well, maybe not that last one. “People think they’re kind of magical,” ...
AWS certification gets managed-service providers into shape
What’s in an Amazon Web Services Inc. certification? Is it just a fancy label the company slaps on its buddies’ run-of-the-mill products? Let’s ask a bona fide AWS partner decorated with the Managed Service Provider certification. The short answer is, no, according to Dave Shacochis (pictured), vice president of product management at CenturyLink Inc. It jumped ...
Want software-first agility? Get with event-driven architecture, says Accenture
Think microservices are as granular as it gets in modern information technology? Then shake hands with the new reactive, event-driven architecture. This method triggers reactions where teeny-tiny events happen, instead of waiting for longer sequences to complete. It results in keener, quicker software applications and better customer experiences. We see an architectural sea change every ...
Cloud AI services dose big pharma with overdue speed, agility
What industry could stand to pick up its pace more than pharmaceutical research? Look at the price of drugs in the U.S. It can take over 10 years and billions of dollars to develop one pill. Providing insight and historical context, modern machine-learning technologies could make pharma a more efficient industry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is adopting cloud technologies to ...
‘Shift left’ prevents missteps that lead to 90% of breaches in cloud computing
Lugging workloads from on-premises to public cloud is straining when done with flimsy security policies. Making sure workloads are secure and compliant the minute they arrive in cloud is even harder. How do companies do it? With a methodology called “shift left” that pushes security back to the earliest stages of developer operations. “As they ...
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Civilians build industrial-grade AI models with low-code platform
Who couldn’t use some time-lapsing, truth-seeing artificial intelligence models at work? Such models analyze whole object-storage buckets full of text or images. They answer difficult queries in minutes, sparing users weeks or months of tedious work. Sign me up. The trouble is, not all companies have a dream team of data-science Ph.D.s on hand to tailor ...
The delicate formula for pinning apps on hybrid-IT map
The forecast calls for hybrid computing. Vendors have signaled a truce in the cloud-versus-on-premises marketing war. They’re acknowledging the hybrid reality in most enterprises with products built to combine or straddle both environments. But how do hybrid companies pinpoint where each individual snowflake should fall? How do they know if a workload is happy at home on-prem, ...
Machine learning analytics could be toughest security on the block
What is breach-detection technology good for? Does a police report help if the thief is already out the back door with the sofa, TV and grandfather clock? Getting closer to real time analysis is essential to effectively put out fires before they seriously injure an organization. Cybersecurity officers need to not only detect, but also ...
This new Kubernetes tech turned KubeCon talk into mob scene
What is the maturation of the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system good for? Open source has kneaded and Karate-chopped the kinks out of the platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). So now what? It runs more reliably in enterprises. There’s that. It might also run a whole stack much the same ...
Public-cloud data centers now heat homes in frigid EU
Here’s an interesting “tech for good” story, and it isn’t a software engineer volunteering at a nonprofit organization. This is actual physical, hyperscale servers directly contributing something to the environment. It’s a European program that captures heat generated in data centers and warms people’s homes with it. Hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. ...