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COVID-19 is teaching firms overdue lessons on scalable database infrastructure
Anyone doubting the necessity of elastic, scalable infrastructure received a wakeup call in recent months. The internet is being stretched to its limits and certain sectors have been caught off guard by skyrocketing demand. As they struggle to adapt, it’s becoming clear that too many companies rely on outdated technology unfit for the COVID-19 era and beyond. ...
IBM released a new product in weeks, says you can too with DataOps
Data won’t spontaneously turn itself into new products and services. Analytics software can help, but it won’t save a data project flawed at the people or process levels. Experts have told us over and over that teams have to get data in their bones for it to work. Has the badly needed cultural shift arrived in ...
COVID-19 might be bitter medicine for what ails AI investing
Is investor belt-tightening brought on by COVID-19 the bitter medicine needed to bring sanity to the artificial intelligence funding bubble, flush out fakes, and shift venture capitalists’ attention to the most deserving companies? In 2019, private investments in AI totaled over $70 billion, with startups taking $37 billion of that. Despite these figures, AI in real life ...
Oracle’s open-source alter ego behind some of its most popular products
Open-source innovation may not be the words evoked by a legacy technology company such as Oracle, a company turning 43 years old next month. But the fact is that — like many companies — Oracle’s paid products and services are actually loaded with ingredients from open-source communities, including Linux, to which it is also a contributor. ...
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Can a quick cloud deployment steer apps clear of migration pitfalls?
Financial strain, frustrations, and even repatriations can make companies wonder if modernizing information technology is worth it. Available stats spell out the benefits of cloud in pretty compelling numbers. But those outcomes must be achieved by plotting an optimal path to cloud and carefully avoiding wasteful wrong turns. Companies don’t pack up and move to ...
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SUSE infuses portfolio with artificial intelligence and edge technology
Now independent from previous owner Micro Focus International PLC, SUSE is out to make its presence more deeply felt with developers and innovators. Its biggest competitors, Red Hat Inc. and Microsoft Corp., have developed impressively broad, varied portfolios. Can SUSE pull any tricks from its Linux-distro hat interesting enough to compete for the attention of leading-edge, ...
Home is now part of the enterprise, so what does the new enterprise security look like?
COVID-19 has forced companies to break up and drift into a multitude of locations. A large enterprise gone all remote suddenly has a vast increase in edge locations to connect and secure. With many organizations planning to make work-from-home a staple moving forward, the sprawl will continue to pose a challenge. Companies must become more ...
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TriggerMesh’s new EveryBridge: Event-driven apps are the endgame of serverless
We’d all love to live in a serverless utopia where functions zoom like speed trains through the cloud. For now, though, most have an on-premises ball and chain tethering us to the Earth. Can we at least enjoy a slice of serverless heaven that will help modernize our hybridized information-technology environments? “You have all those ...
AWS UltraWarm nozzles microservices-data hose with distributed caching
Cloud-based applications built with microservices are firehosing log data at DevOps teams. This is where open-source search-and-analytics engine Elasticsearch comes in for many teams. But Elasticsearch by itself doesn’t solve the problem of where to put all that data. Can a managed-service spin on Elasticsearch do the legwork for them? The sheer amount of data ...
Pop-up social app ‘gamifies’ COVID-19 prevention
What would you do with your very own social platform? What would your users post, like, share, etc.? What about a highly specialized pop-up platform for special occasions or emergencies? Thinking this type of thing could be useful for helping out with COVID-19 prevention? Bingo. This is what Skylab Apps Inc. has done with its ...