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How hyperconvergence helps preserve Native American culture
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has two missions: safeguarding the cultural heritage of New Mexico’s Native American tribes through an interactive museum and historical archive and developing investments for the tribes’ future financial stability. Recent changes in the center’s information technology department have made an impact on both missions, allowing more ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
At VMworld, the multicloud turned mainstream
Multicloud emerged into the mainstream at the recent VMworld conference in Las Vegas, while VMware Inc. solidified critical cloud partnerships, including one with Amazon Web Services Inc. that sees AWS bringing its relational database service to VMware. “With the multicloud world … we’re seeing a real cross-pollination,” said John Troyer (@jtroyer, pictured, left), chief reckoner at TechReckoning. “You can take ...
Technovation ‘gave us wings’ to create innovative apps by girls around the globe
Closing the gender gap in information technology is important not only for equality, but to ensure that the industry has qualified workers for the future. Women make up just 20 percent of jobs in tech according to a recent study released by content marketing firm Evia, a figure that’s declined over the past three decades. ...
Fender Digital says serverless computing ‘rocks’
Great rock n’ roll comes from experimentation and innovation, making developer operations and music twin souls of creative focus. The two merge in Fender Digital, the development arm of Fender Musical Instrument Corp. “[Fender Digital] focuses on all-new digital products to complement [Fender’s] well-known physical products,” said Michael Garski (pictured), director of software engineering at Fender Musical ...
Lessons from Google’s internal SRE methods for cloud efficiencies
As a new generation of corporations navigate the efficiencies of cloud computing, they are faced with a new challenge: running a business in a brand-new environment without the benefit of tried and true methods. “The industry has done a really fabulous job of telling people how to get to cloud, but we’re awful about telling them how to ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
How Google Cloud is bringing Kubernetes into the data center
The blind dash to adopt public cloud computing technology has passed, leaving a trail of security blunders and abandoned transformations. As the dust settles, hybrid approaches are coming to the fore and enterprises are modernizing existing assets alongside introducing cutting-edge technology. Seamlessly blending public cloud and on-premises assets can be a challenge, but Google LLC ...
Fixing the big data fail: Is hybrid cloud the solution?
Big data analytics is the fuel of future business, providing the power behind advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other hot trends being discussed in boardrooms across the globe. Yet, as enticing as these new technologies are, many in the C-suite have been cautious about entrusting their organization’s sensitive data to the public cloud ...
CDOs step out of comfort zones as data monetization efforts increase
Monetizing data assets is enticing for businesses sitting on lakes of information about consumer likes, dislikes, wants and needs. The spotlight is on the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning to parse through it all, but this big data is personal data, and Wild-West attitudes to collection and analysis methods can have serious consequences in the ...
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Accessible AI: With SageMaker, Amazon aims to bring machine learning to more app developers
If you think artificial intelligence and machine learning are beyond the reach of anyone but the most highly trained specialists, think again. Amazon Web Services Inc. is on a mission to make advanced AI solutions accessible to any developer. “This idea of taking technology that is traditionally only within reach of a very, very small ...
Controlling and monetizing data assets in the digital economy
Security. Accessibility. Compliance. The demands of data management are becoming more complex, while, simultaneously, the amount of data to manage is increasing. Since the start of the digital revolution, the amount of raw information flowing into the so-called ‘data lakes’ has increased from a trickle, to a flow, to a deluge. “In today’s age, the ...
