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Dell takes on edge, data migration with container-based PowerStore array
Multicloud and data mobility are putting heavy demands on storage. Vendors are responding with multitasking arrays with legs for trekking the distributed-IT circuit. With its new PowerStore all-flash array, Dell EMC aims to solve tricky edge-compute and data-migration issues. “What we’ve done with PowerStore, we’ve taken storage and brought compute into it,” said Caitlin Gordon (pictured), ...
Video apps like Zoom aren’t the remote-work panacea they’re hyped up to be
With demand for remote-work technology surging, it’s a good time to ask seasoned remote pros about their own preferred tools. When we do, we hear things that seem lost on a lot of startups in this space — namely, that video meetings aren’t a vast improvement over widely disliked office meetings and email isn’t a scourge. Countless workers ...
How low-code can cloud app dev go?
There’s a tidal wave coming in the way of software services designed to minimize the amount of coding needed to build modern business applications. With today’s enterprise app development needs growing more and more demanding by the day, information technology providers are attempting to serve this market by packing increasingly large, varied chunks of IT into ...
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Why GitLab’s remote workers still do more by staying at home
In the past, remote work may have meant part-time transcribing on a contract basis for a boss you’ve never seen. Today, it’s an option more and more professionals look for in a job description. How do 6 a.m. alarms, 45-minute commutes and fluorescent-lit cubicles make people better at their jobs? Remote working is no longer ...
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Messaging could beat Kubernetes to the edge
There’s nothing like a distributed application to force an overhaul of information technology. From atop the stack, broken-up microservices-based apps are remaking everything in their own image. All this decentralizing and decomposing is placing systems, data and services in tenuous long-distance relationships. What can harmonize or unify them all — on-premises, in the cloud and at ...
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Autonomy at sea: Ocean drones net hard-to-get data for weather, fishing and more
The Earth’s oceans cover 70% of its surface. They supply half the oxygen we breath. They influence rainfall all over the world. They can send catastrophic tsunamis on shore in coastal communities. They’re home to the fish that make up 20% of the protein we consume. And those are just some things we know about ...
Getting real with today’s most hyped software: An RPA case study
For the past two years, fed by outsized investments and valuations, a buzz has crackled and fizzed around robotic process automation. It was a bit light and airy, but it sure was hot. Pundits, investors and RPA providers themselves emitted a lot of the heat, leaving some real-world businesses cold. Last fall, the RPA market ...
The risk-managed tech getting Putnam more 5-star funds than ever
In some industries, certain things never change. While the financial-services sector is transforming with technology, it’s not without frequent check-ins with its old, ball-and-chain risk management departments. How can these companies innovate when moving fast and breaking stuff might carry too high a price? “We are in this cycle where, I think, there’s $38 trillion … getting transferred from one generation ...
Get security to stop saying ‘no’ to agile DevOps
Cloud-based, distributed information technology is plowing everyone out of their comfort zone. Developers and operations teams are trading hats as software release cycles become too frequent for after-the-fact fix-ups. Now, developer operations faces a cranky security department shackling agility. Can security and DevOps make friends for the greater good? The grievances aired in these conflicts ...
Should data stay, or should it go? The multicloud mobility debate
Reams have been written on digital business, but it may all boil down to one word: speed. Seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds, etc. Specifically, the speed of data transport and analytics is of utmost importance. Do we bring the data to the compute, or vice versa? Today, if a developer figures out a way to deliver some ...