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Modernizing apps sans cloud infra is ‘putting lipstick on a pig,’ says report
Bad news for those in business to cloud wash legacy applications to modernize them without overhauling the infrastructure: The modern app is a cloud app up and down the stack, according to Kalyan Ramanathan (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Sumo Logic Inc. That’s the gist of Sumo Logic’s special report, “The 2017 State of the ...
Zettabytes launches software-hardware-AWS Frankenstein
What are entrepreneurs to do at a time when cloud technology is booming but many customers’ software applications are still glued on-premises hardware? Wrap a hardware appliance, software platform and select Amazon Web Services Inc. offerings in a single package like just-launched Zettabytes Inc. “It’s a software platform, as well as an appliance,” said Rishi Yadav (pictured, right), ...
‘Identity sprawl’ and the root of 80 percent of security breaches
What’s more annoying than forgetting the password to an email account? How about when an employee shares a password, which is then stolen by a hacker who uses it to breach sensitive data and bring down an enterprise. “Identity sprawl” contributes to today’s biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, according to Tom Kemp (pictured), chief executive officer of Centrify ...
Old hand SAP lifts weighty enterprise customers into AWS cloud
SAP SE built its brand as the staid and solid enterprise application software through longstanding support and, typically, longstanding products. So cloud, with its agile, iterative, fail-fast approach could be an awkward fit for SAP. The company, however, is helping its customers marry the best of both worlds, according to Paul Young (pictured), global vice president of ...
Controlled chaos: Maturing Kubernetes weighs choice and standards
The rich complexity of Kubernetes’ open-source system for managing containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) attracts diverse users and contributors alike. Everyone from public cloud providers to small startups to enterprise users has their hands in it; can they collaborate to control the chaos and bring standards to the maturing technology? The range ...
FPGA chips could be the brains for AI at the IoT edge
Within 10 years, 99 percent of the data from “internet of things” systems will live and die at the edge of the network, according to Wikibon.com analyst David Floyer. This means that edge device hardware will have to become a lot more hospitable to data analytics for artificial intelligence applications like autonomous vehicles and digital personal assistants. ...
Industry vet Tom Siebel: Big tech trends are a means to an AI end
Even digital transformation rookies know that big data is the guiding principal of digital business — or was, at least. Now the big data noise has largely harmonized into a signal: artificial intelligence. If AI is the evolution of big data, do businesses now just follow the AI trail straight to the digital, data-driven promised ...
How cloud and serverless fuel a ‘22,000-person startup’
For anyone who’s been hiding in an underground bomb shelter: Cloud is more than infrastructure commodities like compute and storage. Advanced services built on top of clouds — like serverless functions for app development — far from just providing a landing for businesses, can possibly transform them. At last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, Sandra Stonham (pictured, right), ...
VCs suddenly looking to .govs for ROI
Crawl-paced .govs are good places for Silicon Valley investors to sink dollars they never want to see again, right? Maybe — five or 10 years ago. Today, venture capitalists are actively seeking to expand their portfolios in government verticals, according to Teresa Carlson (pictured), vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services Inc. There’s been a change in ...
Citizen donors can share genetic data to help the AHA save lives
Organ donors have saved lives for years. Now anyone can help to fight heart disease, the leading cause of death globally, by donating their data to researchers at the American Heart Association. The AHA has established the Precision Medicine Platform for its researchers to analyze vast data on heart disease and stroke. “What’s so awesome ...