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Containers and VMs go together like peanut butter and jelly
Information technology has always been a black and white world where decisions are between option A and option B, experts spend hours arguing over which technology is going to win the supremacy battle, and executives stress over purchasing choices. But in today’s collaborative world you can have it all, at least where containers and virtual machines are concerned. “The reality ...
Open-cloud yoga: Maintaining consistency through change at Google
Maintaining consistency in the face of constant change is a challenge for enterprises today. How does an organization choose which technology will be the best for now and for the future when the only constant is that nothing is constant in the world of cloud computing? “We don’t know where innovation will come from; what will ...
The tech behind custom Coca-Cola cans for inclusive ad campaign
Coca-Cola Co.’s journey to connect personally with consumers began in the mid-2010s with the worldwide Share A Coke campaign, where beverage cans and bottles were labeled with the most popular names from each respective country. The tactic was successful but left out a significant portion of Coke drinkers frustrated that no bottles expressed their names. “People started ...
This company is leading the charge to a mobile marketplace
Consumers are demanding the ability to buy anything, anytime and from anywhere. This puts the pressure on merchants to up their game in order to compete against e-commerce giants, such as Amazon.com Inc., that offer one-click purchase and two-day delivery. Envisioning a perfect online sales platform is the first step, and attendees at Imagine 2018 have been ...
Open-source e-commerce platform matures to support mobile culture
A seamless shopping experience is always easy for the customer, but Magento Inc. wanted to make it easy on the seller as well. The former eBay Inc. subsidiary has developed an open-source e-commerce platform that leverages its partner ecosystem, incorporating the latest e-commerce trends and helping businesses solve the challenges of operating in the digital marketplace, ...
Intelligent e-commerce democratizes data for B2B clients
Like a hyper-efficient laundry center, Magento Inc. takes dirty, disorganized data from diverse sources and sends it through a spin cycle, cleansing it and delivering information that’s prepped for predictive analysis. “We’ve created an infrastructure that allows all kinds of data — whatever data that you have; it could be in a spreadsheet or it could be ...
Cloud Foundry rationalizes the chaos of innovation
The open-source computing community is a fertile breeding ground for innovation, which is a good thing. The flipside to the explosive growth, however, is that the compute ecosystem has become increasingly convoluted and confusing. Aiming to simplify the complex is cloud computing platform Cloud Foundry. “[Cloud Foundry] looks at the entire spectrum of open-source software as ...
The art of cybersecurity: Know your enemy and join forces with friends
It’s a scenario straight from sci-fi; zombies are bonded into swarmbots and coordinate an attach with malicious intent. But the world of cybersecurity isn’t a sci-fi flick; today’s advanced cyber attacks can turn connected devices into zombies, controlled remotely to infect software, hack bank accounts and hold data ransom. Brave cybersecurity professionals rally to fight the forces ...
New AI creates self-training digital twins, predicts the future
Imagine being able to predict the behavior of a traffic signal at an intersection as a vehicle approaches. Cool info to know, especially for professional rideshare or delivery services, but prohibitively expensive to do solely through cloud computing. Yet a huge amount of compute power goes unused at the edge of computer networks, from billions of ...
Self-driving delivery trucks tackle ‘lawless places’ like parking lots
The beginning and the end are the critical stages of any journey, as the precise navigation required is a tough challenge for autonomous vehicles (and for many human drivers as well). “We are doing something that very few other companies are doing, which is mastering the first and last hundred feet,” said Daniel Laury (pictured), chief executive officer and ...
