Last year’s inaugural Supercloud event shed light on the accelerating popularity of multicloud infrastructures as a default enterprise standard and the eventual emergence of an eponymous supercloud paradigm. A major reason for organizations coming to terms with these trends is the unwavering data sprawl. Thus, a prominent part of dissecting the cloud-data intersection within this ...

As part of enterprise digital transformation, companies often have to take a few technologies and customize them to suit an intended set of business-critical use cases or end goals. But as these company-specific cloud tools advance in complexity, a trend is emerging where they fit the “supercloud paradigm.” An apt example of this is the ...

As the dust settles on the COVID pandemic, fewer industries were more affected than cruise ship operators. With customer experience now more important than ever, Royal Caribbean Group partnered with Cisco Systems Inc. to build applications that deliver consistent end-user value. “We have really worked hard to improve and remove friction from our guest vacation; we want ...

The global trend toward digital transformation doesn’t only improve supply chains and corporate bottom lines. It can also save lives and livelihoods. In recognizing this fact, E.design Insurance Co. Ltd. has tapped into cloud technologies to create “&e” (Andy), an automobile insurance system. “E.design, in collaboration with Accenture, sought to redefine the company’s mission, vision and values by ...

Humankind has made such a habit of using technology and barely notices how much better life has become over short timespans. Thankfully, literature is a window of collective insight and experience shedding light on things that, by themselves, often seem mundane. The book “Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future“ ...

A welcome trend that’s become increasingly evident at the recent re:Invent conference is the cloud transformation of healthcare service providers. In perhaps the widest-reaching example yet, Baptist Health South Florida has worked with Accenture to infuse cloud technologies across its 11 hospitals. “Baptist started a digital transformation initiative about three years ago,” said Tony Ambrozie (pictured, right), ...

An ongoing theme at the re:Invent conference was the increasing volume of public sector investment in the public cloud. Agencies all over the U.S. now see the cloud’s benefits in areas like innovation, service delivery, research and data protection; and North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services adds to that growing list. “We started ...

Over the years, banking and finance-related industries have innovated in parallel to existing enterprise cloud and computing trends. As the world embraces advancements in enterprise-scale processing horsepower, among other innovations, expert solutions are cropping up aimed at porting it all to the banking space. “We, together with AWS, are co-investingin a multi-year strategy where we’re saying, ‘Let’s ...

Three trends have shaped up to dominate the incoming future of computing: cloud (including its hybrid and multicloud flavors), data analysis, and the edge. Edge computing, in particular, will be an influential junction for enterprise security and data connectivity operations. “With the edge, this is where we see the connectivity and security requirements really connect, because that edge information is ...

Hybrid cloud, where enterprises run some workloads on-premises and others in the cloud, is all the rage. But given the vast number of instance permutations available, how can organizations pinpoint the most beneficial instance choice for their infrastructural needs? “We really want to be able to make accessing the cloud, particularly at volume, to be simple ...