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Pure Storage joins push to make hybrid-app fantasy a reality
Operating both on-premises and in cloud puts information technology departments in an awkward straddling position. They can try pasting on-prem and cloud technologies together and hope they stick. But solutions engineered for hybrid environments will likely give a smoother ride out of the box. These are the of-the-moment products that companies such as VMware Inc. and Pure ...
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Here come AI cloud apps so easy a caveman could make one
Friends don’t let friends build data centers these days. Cloud infrastructure has eliminated on-premises bulk for companies moving into the digital age. Now, anyone building a software as a service application has a new palette of easy, featherweight tools before them. Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. are allowing them to easily tack on complex ...
Mission-driven: In race against Uber, Lyft is going social
Plenty of folks these days wonder aloud about Silicon Valley’s social responsibility. Should entrepreneurs worry about the impact of technology? Or is their business strictly a profit-driven one? Perhaps they needn’t choose since there are practical payoffs to keeping a larger mission in mind. Lyft Inc. is a twisting, winding case study in how a ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
AWS Outposts sets fire under on-prem competitors’ seats
The march to public cloud is hitting some speed bumps. Companies are learning the hard way that some apps belong at home for convenience, cost, compliance and other reasons. This is where on-premises vendors can come up the side and snatch some of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s customers. Or not. There’s a movement afoot to ...
The surprising cure for costly cloud hangovers
There’s an invisible substance in the air throughout the technology industry today. As people walk though it and breathe it in, it makes them believe cloud computing is superior to on-premises infrastructure. All the buzzwords, like simplified, pay-as-you-go, and elastic, lure one to the cloud. But when companies actually make the move to public cloud services, the head trip might ...
Micro-chunk migration calms on-prem-to-cloud panic
Remember the movie What About Bob? with Bill Murray? The lead character, Bob Wiley, is stricken with fears about life. His psychiatrist advises him to constantly focus on “baby steps” to get through each day. Cloud influencer and principal advisor at The Batchery Sarbjeet Johal (pictured), finds himself in a position similar to Bob’s shrink these days. Johal’s ...
Push AI projects forward with collaborative DataOps
We’re constantly hearing that companies need new technology to become data-driven. Experts also warn that a shopping bag full of fancy tech won’t turn a company’s culture around. The cultural side of the data-driven coin actually mirrors the tech side; collection, curation and combination its key insignia. Data operations is a collaborative process that gets ...
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Cisco alum John Chambers aims to clone Silicon Valley everywhere
What is in the air in Silicon Valley that makes it America’s tech innovation greenhouse? Did an unpredictable swirl of gasses create the universe of Google, Facebook, Apple, et al.? Surely, Saint Paul, Minnesota, or Newark, New Jersey, would love to reproduce a boon like that in their economies. So why haven’t they? There is ...
Data governance does more than thwart GDPR police — a lot more
Dread of data misuse has spread through all kinds of organizations since the General Data Protection Regulation went live in May. The legislation hasn’t done much to lighten the already drab image of data governance in people’s minds. To get all departments on-board governance missions, companies might lay down the sticks and try a carrot for ...
Eat data-governance veggies, or greet self-serve sorcerer’s apprentice
Artificial intelligence is the sexy siren luring enterprises into novel initiatives. Its attractions are so strong, some attempt to get friendly without proper courtship. That courtship would be the unglamorous, often tough data governance, security and stewardship groundwork. If they don’t build out their “AI Ladder,” rung by rung, they could blow their chances for ...