The COVID-19 pandemic brought several challenges for enterprises and their employees, as business aims to keep productivity high while working from home. “Design Thinking” is one strategy IBM is using to figure out solutions to these problems, according to Arin Bhowmick (pictured), global vice president and chief design officer, IBM Cloud, data, and AI platforms at IBM. “Design ...

As the world becomes more digital as the coronavirus pandemic forces many to work remotely, companies and individuals need to share more and more data. This sharing can be more efficient if the data and the sources that provide it are confirmed, verified and trusted. That’s why computing giant IBM Corp. is betting on blockchain as ...

The strict regulation of the financial sector has historically prevented it from widely adopting public cloud services, due to strict security needs. Less than 10% of financial institutions’ workloads have moved to the cloud, according to Sarah Diamond (pictured), global managing director of banking and financial markets at IBM Corp. Aware of the potential of ...

The coronavirus pandemic has imposed several significant changes to organizations’ information-technology teams, such as increasing capacity and accommodating remote workers. Automation has been a means for these teams, already stretched to the limit, to meet these unprecedented demands. With the help of the exponentially growing community of contributors and the countless playbooks available, the Red Hat ...

No doubt, Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to create web applications and platforms. However, it is not necessarily the best fit for the new cloud-native development, with applications running in containers or in a type of serverless environment. To solve this problem, the open-source project Quarkus offers a new Kubernetes-native framework ...

Business intelligence company Domo Inc. receives daily queries from its customers’ analysts and executives. This ad hoc environment can be challenging for its engineers, since its does not allow a predictable dashboard for performance planning. In order to answer analyst questions and provide cloud-scale analytical abilities in near real time, Domo uses Vertica’s open architecture to collect metadata ...

Log management and observability is time-consuming and expensive, unless done autonomously. That’s the bet of 2017 startup Zebrium Inc., an autonomous monitoring platform that uses unsupervised machine learning to automatically detect and help resolve incidents. “Zebrium was founded on the notion that we can just do all that automatically,” said Larry Lancaster (pictured), founder and chief ...

There’s no doubt that the use of data is valuable for businesses. But it’s not just companies that can benefit from data insights. Individuals can and should also collect their own body data and use it to have a better life, according to Talithia Williams (pictured), associate dean and associate professor of mathematics at Harvey ...

As powerful as the benefits of artificial intelligence are, using biased data and defective AI models can cause a lot of damage. To address that growing issue, human values must be integrated into the entire data science process, according to Lucy Bernholz (pictured), senior research scholar and director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at ...

Gender inequality in the tech industry has gained many headlines of late. For good reason. Diversity is essential to bring new perspectives and help, for example, to reduce the unfair bias of data models, according to Lillian Carrasquillo (pictured), insights manager at Spotify Technology SA. “Because you are different, your voice is needed even more,” Carrasquillo said. ...