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Poshmark founder shares lessons in scaling startup too fast
The slog from launch day to profitability is often a storied one for startups. Many entrepreneurs instinctively want to scale with abandon right out of the gate. This may lead to some ugly surprises down the road if they haven’t worked out kinks in the foundation, according to Manish Chandra (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Poshmark ...
Weary of tug-of-war, cloud users force vendors to get hybrid acts together
Public-cloud and on-premises infrastructure vendors have proselytized very different gospels to customers. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that vendors can be biased and profit-driven. Now many customers are signaling that they’ll be resolutely hybrid for the foreseeable future. This is forcing vendors on both sides of the cloud aisle to think differently. “The ...
Amazon DeepRacer mini cars and the next big thing in AI
Even those who aren’t much for recreational robotics should take an interest in DeepRacer from Amazon Web Services Inc. The miniature self-driving cars use a form of artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning. The cars learn to drive through trial and error without massive, pre-loaded data sets. Think of all that could mean for AI inferencing across ...
AI platform aims to speed up timely, money-sucking drug research for Merck
Done right, data analytics can propel a project from seedling to salad, time-lapse video style. The right way sidesteps undifferentiated heavy lifting from the get-go. The wrong way toils in the basement building plumbing from scratch. This is clear in pharmaceutical research; the failure rate of projects begs for a shorter route from hypothesis to conclusion. Researchers ...
AWS is fashionably (or frustratingly) late to open source, but ready to party
To the scowling, sleep-deprived developers sniping at Amazon Web Services Inc. for slacking on open source: AWS is fed up. It’s put together a team devoted to upping open-source activity and is steadily contributing new software. “We’re getting criticized for not making enough contributions,” said Adrian Cockcroft (pictured), vice president of cloud architecture strategy at AWS. ...
FBI is chasing bad guys with AWS cloud data analytics
There was a time when public entities with sensitive data thought they’d never move to public cloud. Then the Central Intelligence Agency endorsed cloud not despite security, but because of it. And so the tide turned. Government agencies now move to cloud for security, agility, and to help them do hard, high-stakes work. Case in ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
AWS’ new satellite scheme throws out the book on edge computing
Know what would really help solve the edge-to-cloud data-transport conundrum? Satellites. Satellites could deliver data to the cloud much more rapidly than internet of things edge devices could. But then there’s the practical impossibility of building a parabolic antenna for most companies. That’s why Lockheed Martin Corp. has collaborated with Amazon Web Services Inc. to offer parabolic ...
HIPAA-friendly AI speeds up rules-bound healthcare tech
Healthcare is about as touchy an industry as there is. The sensitivity of personal data; lines and lines of security and compliance rules; the scary high stakes of patients’ health and lives. Can artificial intelligence unravel the big ball of red tape and bring digital efficiency to hospitals, research centers, insurers, etc.? “There are 1.2 ...
What’s shaken out of Google-Nutanix handshake so far?
Remember last year when Nutanix Inc. brought Diane Greene on stage at its .NEXT conference? A thumbs-up from Google Cloud Platform’s then chief executive officer is a pretty loud cloud signal for a hyperconverged infrastructure company. Concrete details on the fruits of the partnership were pretty scant, though. Was it an optical deal, or would ...
Navigating messy microservices maze with analytics
Warning to those packing the shopping cart with the freshest tech for sale, such as virtualized container solutions and specialized microservices: The resulting mix is a whole different enchilada than the old nuts and bolts enterprises are used to. Microservices multiplying like germs across distributed, multicloud environments can dizzy development and operations teams. The landscape is a bit ...