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Omnipresent data protection for apps all over the darn place
With a new breed of software applications emerging, spanning machine learning, artificial intelligence and the internet of things, it can be difficult for businesses to keep pace. Developing and running these novel and highly complex apps is trying. Having a single place to manage and protect the precious data involved can help reign in the tumult. ...
AI may not drive your car yet, but it can come along for the ride
We keep hearing that autonomous cars are going to take over the roads any day now. Yet, how many of us can see ourselves driving hands-free down a city street at rush hour, bumper-to-bumper with other drivers paying no attention to what’s happening around them? We asked some pros in next-gen automotive to explain the ...
In multicloud jumble, single backup solution clears confusion
What’s a bigger headache than choosing the right on-premises, private-cloud or public-cloud home for decades worth of applications? Managing different data backup and recovery solutions for all of them once they are settled is a solid contender. A single solution that consolidates and simplifies the process can keep the tears of frustration from falling. Migrating workloads ...
Chip off the old block: Nvidia, Micron spin out end-to-end AI systems
The processing demands of artificial-intelligence and deep-learning applications are sparking a renaissance in hardware development. Old commodity stuff isn’t cutting it, even with spanking-new software on top. Chip makers are now called upon to delver rip-sawing, purpose-made graphics processing units, and memory chips, etc., to provide the extra oomph. Applications like image recognition for medical ...
Crypto-rich startups can’t take it to the bank, look to asset custody
The time from conception to screaming under harsh, fluorescent delivery-room lights is getting shorter for startups. Initial coin offerings are laying tons of cryptocurrency in the hands of founders before they know what to do with it. What’s more is banks don’t quite know what to do with it either, from the security or insurance ...
Digital transformation is rewriting the book on data backup
Digital transformation has companies everywhere reassessing their relationship to data backup and protection. They’re asking hard questions like: Can you recover data at the pace of modern digital business? Do you work seamlessly across multiple on-premises and cloud environments? Can you do more than just sit there 99 percent of the time? “Industry data suggests ...
What do you call a sweltering hot AWS cloud startup? The nation of Bahrain
Cheap and easy cloud infrastructure has given legs to startups that could never have footed the bill for a classic data center. Can its affordability and low barriers to entry allow entire nations to remake their economies? Amazon Web Services Inc. is betting the answer is yes; it’s intensifying efforts to marshal cloud technology toward ...
Here’s what happens when employees in the trenches track DIY KPIs
How does a business choose its metrics and key performance indicators? Do the people at the highest levels of the C-suite know what matters most on the ground? Could employees working beneath them have a better idea of what should be tracked and reported? As a matter of fact, they might, and code-free tools that ...
In the ‘liquid enterprise,’ employees call software shots, do it faster
There’s a shift happening in companies, giving workers greater choice in how they get their work done. Organically, through their selection of software tools, employee choices are trickling up to management. How do managers feel about relinquishing control, and how will it affect productivity and the ultimate direction of businesses? In the past, centralized teams of ...
PayPal learned Smartsheet with just YouTube videos, and it’s paying off
What are the measures of excellent software for work? Perhaps it’s ease of use, a brief learning curve, and time- and money-saving capabilities. PayPal Holdings Inc. scored all of the above when it learned and implemented a brand new tool just by watching some YouTube videos. The tool in question is Smartsheet Inc.’s work- and collaboration-management ...