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‘DevOps in a box’ lands startup a $950 million DoD deal
Anyone not sold on startup-style agility over legacy plodding need only look at the digits on REAN Cloud LLC’s contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. The five-year-old cloud systems integrator just signed a $950 million deal to streamline its solutions and services direct to DoD, beating almost 30 competitors. REAN’s win owes much to ...
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Danger: High-voltage AI tech needs ethics and safety regulations, expert warns
Artificial intelligence is so loudly hyped by software vendors and the tech media nowadays, one would think its powers could make human brain cells obsolete. Venture capitalists poured $10.8 billion into artificial intelligence and machine learning technology companies in 2017, according to PitchBook Data Inc. But many thought leaders are saying that without human oversight and ethical constraints, AI could do serious damage ...
Real-world IT responds to cloud, new tech hustle
Cloud providers and software developers scraping their hides on the cutting edge can lose sight of what life is like for regular end users. Are enterprise information technology practitioners ready for the cloud-native-open-source-serverless-tron? “We get inundated with marketing — ‘go to the cloud; go to the cloud,’” said Chris Harney (pictured), founder and president of VTUG ...
Tech is a moving target for teachers trying to nail computing curriculum
How does an educator teach a subject as busy and constantly shifting as technology in 2018? Gauging what students know, don’t know and need to know, and pooling brain cells with outside experts can help, according to Tom Rasmussen (pictured), director of information technology and instructor at the Greater Boston Joint Apprentice Training Center. The center comprises ...
Disaster recovery lets buy-shy customers sample cloud
Companies aiming to move computing workloads to a multicloud environment find the road strewn with question marks. Which workloads should live where, and why? What’s the smoothest on-ramp? “What we’re hearing from customers is, there’s a lot of confusion in the market,” said Rob Strechay (pictured), senior vice president of product at Zerto Inc. They realize that their multicloud ...
A futurist’s take on big data fails in marketing
Brands are lasering in on consumer data to tailor experiences that keep customers loyal as German Shepherds. But as with marketing initiatives, throwing new software at the problem and expecting magic to happen yields poor returns. Companies need a culture with CX leadership and cross-department involvement to differentiate from competitors. That is the gist of a ...
Cisco reimagines the network: Information is in, systems are moving out
No one can call Cisco Systems Inc. shortsighted. The 33-year-old networking company waxed futuristic all the way to 2050 at the recent Cisco Live event in Barcelona, Spain. The company envisions an emerging data-oriented network infrastructure for software and developer-driven enterprises. “We kind of haven’t even really started with the internet yet. We just tried a few ...
When microservices aren’t so micro: How Istio whacks complexity
Cloud applications built with microservices and packaged in containers (a virtual method for running distributed applications) can get mighty busy as all the moving parts cling and clang against each other. Open-source platform Istio is a service mesh that connects, manages and secures microservices that a growing number of harried developers rely on to control ...
Cisco teams with Google, others to school developers with DevNet
Cisco Systems Inc. wants to school developers with special ed in such scary subjects as quality of service for applications and microservices management. Its DevNet strategic initiative co-creations taps partners to build the curriculum. The networking legacy is working closely with its top customers, developers and partners to help them leverage the DevNet developer community. “We ...
The hardware-software-data trifecta in Cisco’s enterprise AI
Artificial intelligence assistants like Amazon Echo combine a hardware device with software models trained on big data. But not many companies have the necessary chops in all key areas to build a highly intelligent device. Could Cisco Systems Inc.’s position as a legacy hardware provider transitioning to a software platform plant the company in the AI-assistant ...