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At AWS Summit, enterprise tech companies battle the new consumer kids for the cloud
The inexorable march toward the cloud shows no signs of slowing. That’s why vendors of all stripes want to be No. 1, whether it’s in basic cloud infrastructure or specialized cloud services. The big question: Can old hands such as Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. pull ahead of Amazon Web Services Inc. with their enterprise footholds? ...
Chatty AI gives CPR to gasping enterprise apps
Are enterprise business applications good for more than garbage in, garbage out tab keeping? Some innovative vendors are kicking enterprise software up a notch with artificial intelligence technology. The new class of apps delivers a humanized, conversational experience and even makes smart suggestions to users. “I don’t think anyone is thrilled to come to work ...
Beyond Kubernetes: The new school of container assists
Containers’ technology for running distributed software applications is off-the-grill hot, and that means they’re still a bit too hot to handle for some. Orchestration and storage snafus, for instance, can pop up when users run large numbers of containers in production. An ecosystem within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is developing to sand down the ...
Developers do bidding for startup against giants AWS and Google
How does a small startup butt its green horns with dominant cloud bulls Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud Platform? DigitalOcean LLC is making headway by winning over developers and hand selecting must-have features for modern application creation. It’s proving to be fertile ground for the company, getting them in at companies that were this close to ...
CNCF wants serverless interoperability to balance chaos and order
The serverless computing scene isn’t famous for its love of rules and regulations. The open-source communities and developers that fuel it might not even agree on how to define serverless computing, and may embrace the chaos and the freedom it grants. But enterprise folks care less about being cool and more about their getting jobs done. ...
New machine learning tech will star at re:Invent, says AWS exec
Amazon Web Services Inc. became head honcho in public cloud by tuning out competition and turning up customer voices. Its catalog of services is arguably overwhelming now, but the company insists it simply doesn’t want to leave any customer needs unmet. This is why it plans on bringing out more much-in-demand machine learning and analytics ...
Designing tech for enterprise data analysts with consumer attention spans
Talented data scientists don’t come cheap; if a company serious about monetizing data is fortunate enough to land one, it had better wring all it can from them. Data-collection and analytics tools that sweep data from here and yonder into a visible whole can help. Instead of having analysts toil away on low- and mid-level ...
‘Blockchain-for-everyone’ with ready-made contracts
Buzz about blockchain is crackling in the air, not just in Silicon Valley, but anywhere with a beating tech pulse around the world. However, the complexities of the blockchain distributed ledger — especially for developers — remains a stumbling block to mainstreaming the technology. One young company wants to bring blockchain-for-everyone to market with reduced-prep ...
LiveWorx plans to be SXSW of industrial tech
Boston has a respectable tech startup scene, but everyone knows it isn’t Silicon Valley. However, some believe that by snatching up more and more action around the “internet of things” trend for connected devices and augmented reality, Boston could become the place to be in those specific niches. What might establish it as such is a ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
To help cure mistrust in media, ‘Never Settle’ opens the request lines
Hear that thud? That’s the public’s trust in the media hitting rock bottom. Fake news plastered on social sites; partisan commentators billing themselves as reporters; billionaires with who-knows-what agenda buying newspapers: Is anyone in media land telling it like it is? Perhaps readers and viewers themselves can be the checks and balances on bias in ...