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Straddling cloud and on-prem storage in uncertain data times
Does any company know exactly what they’re doing with data they’ve collected, from transactions to employee logs? While businesses want to monetize data, lawmakers demand that it comply with Europe’s latest General Data Protection Regulation. And the pros and cons of public cloud computing versus the more tightly contained on-premises storage can be tough to sort out. Maybe that ...
Who will corner digital healthcare’s potential trillion-dollar market?
Healthcare may be the next big industry to undergo overhaul via big data and artificial intelligence technologies. Bureaucratic lag and privacy jitters notwithstanding, such progressive tech could revolutionize how doctors and patients diagnose and treat ailments. So are insurgent startups or deep-pocketed legacies best equipped to monetize the new era of medicine? “Healthcare data is the most ...
Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes shake on making microservices act like APIs
The cutting-edge, cloud-native application everyone lusts after these days often includes these ingredients: microservices, containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) and Kubernetes, a platform to orchestrate those containers. That none are exactly child’s play to manage may explain why many companies still run lots of legacy software. Can application program interface management technology ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
At Google Cloud Next, debate bubbles over cloud’s future and market metrics
The sentiment in Silicon Valley is that Google Cloud Platform is the underdog in a race against Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Cloud. Journalists and analysts put their ears to the ground at Google Cloud Next 2018 and listened for the straight dope. Can we trust market share reports? Will the rankings ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Analysis: Google’s specialized cloud products set it apart from big rival AWS
Why bring cloud computing to market if it’s just to copy what Amazon Web Services Inc. is already doing so well? Enterprise-grade cloud competitors such as Microsoft Corp. Azure and Google Cloud Platform must answer that question to customers. Google’s answer is easy: ready-to-use services in contrast to Amazon’s configurable ones that may require homework. “Amazon and Google ...
Google serves streamlined value prop at Google Cloud Next
What business wouldn’t emulate the richest company in the world? Google’s technology is years ahead of the industry; by adopting it, a car maker could become the Google of automotive, right? Not precisely, but they could skim some of Google’s sexy sauce, new varieties of which attendees tasted today at the Google Cloud Next event ...
Bosses shush ad men excuses with advanced data tech
Data is driving novel money-making methods across business departments, particularly the numbers-driven marketing and sales divisions. Riding shotgun are new accountability standards for payrollers in these respective fiefs. When the boss puts data in one hand, he or she strips excuses from the other — and the results can be sweet. Historically, marketers could slide by the ...
Data you can’t see can’t make bank. How do you scope it out?
Is data the new oil? Is data the most valuable asset a modern enterprise possesses? Is it the new currency? Most enterprises would answer, “Yes,” to all of the above. But do they actually know where all their data is? Many would say, “Nope.” So how can they take the crucial step to data-driven business ...
ANALYSIS
Who’s doing data assets best? Analysts weigh in at MIT CDOIQ Symposium
Whenever anyone starts a conversation about using data as a business asset, it tends to conclude with this consensus: ‘We’re not there yet.’ Companies living the dream aren’t very many, but their ranks are slowly growing, and their successes can serve as pointers for the rest of us. Some of the industry’s most inquisitive minds gathered today ...
Move over apps, crypto protocols could be new internet moneybags
The Ethereum blockchain protocol, bousted with protections from fraud and third-party interference, is the hottest thing in cryptocurrency. Transactions on the decentralized platform for running and programming software applications now triple the number of rival bitcoin transactions, according to data by Bitinfocharts. Other blockchain protocols are cropping up, and they may supplant traditional applications as the major ...