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SF Giants CIO co-innovates with VCs, other sports teams
What does it mean to be a sports franchise steps from Silicon Valley? For the chief information officer, it means a slate of enticing tech-related resources at his or her fingertips. The problem is that there are so many leading-edge technologies CIOs could try, they must squint hard to see which ones they should try. ...
Startup dots map with storage hubs for scattered apps
Most companies — 67 percent, according to this survey — are using hybrid-cloud computing infrastructure or plan to in the near future. They know their mix of legacy and modern software applications won’t all fit snugly in the same spot. What they don’t know is where they will all eventually settle; choices keep multiplying, mutating, ...
Old Publishers Clearing House does fresh analytics tricks with hybrid cloud mix
Picture a 65-year-old company that has amassed data on 100 million people. Suddenly, it learns that data is the new oil commodity, but its on-premises legacy computing infrastructure isn’t cut out for advanced analytics. Does it trash its data center and rush to public cloud? Or can it take a more balanced approach and still ...
AI leaders aren’t “talking trash” anymore, say analysts
Silicon Valley has hyped modern artificial intelligence technologies to the stratosphere, thanks to AI’s ability to automate data management and boost analytics processes for mining business data. Yet any healthily skeptical individual would expect the actual goods to fall short, and debates continue over AI’s actual potential to overtake humans reasoning capacity. Some estimate that AI-driven analytics ...
Practical AI playbook: Less ocean boiling, more use cases
A few years ago, big-data hype resounded through the tech industry, even as many companies frankly didn’t get it. They had data lakes, but few were fishing anything valuable from them. Then artificial intelligence came along promising to finally drive usable insights. But many remain without a practical playbook; do they throw random AI tools ...
Digital-transformation dos and don’ts from veteran CDO
Transforming to a data-driven enterprise isn’t a snap. One of the finest investments a company can make towards a digital transformation is a chief data officer, if they can even afford it. But once the CDO walks through the door, staffers across the entire company had better brace themselves for change. “The CDO has to be the change agent in ...
IBM is its own AI guinea pig, shares successes from the test results
These are curious times. The media is drilling big-data hype into everyone’s skulls, but how many businesses making a go at it are striking gold? One Gartner analyst estimates a shockingly high failure rate for big-data projects at 85 percent (paywall report here). Perhaps that’s because few vendors and experts have the grit to formulate the right products and practices. IBM ...
Getting out of multicloud latency jam with Kubernetes for data
Multicloud architectures are putting strain on storage infrastructure to be everywhere all the time. The logistics of moving data around remain frustrating; even if companies can pay the cost of transit, arrival times may not be worth it. Is there a storage array to help data make it on time to disparate locations on-premises, in ...
Know thy data to avoid hassle of on-prem repatriation
Having made the leap from on-premises to public cloud, what could possibly go awry? A company all-in on cloud can say they’re modernized, out of the data center business, focused on differentiation, yada, yada, yada. And then the bill arrives. Is it really worth it to have every last wisp of a workload in cloud? ...
What ‘cloud-like’ backup looks like, and why multicloud begs for it
Why are about half of companies on the verge of breaking up with their data-protection platform? In a word, multicloud. Shimmying and shaking across multiple environments takes a new kind of nimble, everywhere-all-the-time backup with high automation IQ and pay-as-you-go pricing; it takes cloud-like data protection. “Multicloud is a forcing function to rethink your backup,” ...