James Kobielus

James Kobielus is @theCUBE and Wikibon lead analyst for AI, data, data science, deep learning and application development. Previously, Jim was IBM Corp.'s data science evangelist. He managed IBM's thought leadership, social and influencer marketing programs targeted at developers of big data analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing applications. Prior to his five-year stint at IBM, Jim was an analyst at Forrester Research, Current Analysis and the Burton Group. He is also a prolific blogger, a popular speaker and a familiar face from his many appearances as an expert on theCUBE and at industry events.

Latest from James Kobielus

What are developers looking for in multicloud programming? Simplicity.

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Applications live everywhere in the multicloud but nowhere in particular. For developers, this means they need tools and frameworks that help them spread data and business logic across many public, private, edge and other environments. More than that, they need abstractions that …

How multicloud cost models are shifting – and what to do about it

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Multicloud is an emerging approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But optimizing the costs of a full multicloud deployment can prove tricky, because there may no unified management plane for deploying, monitoring and governing all distributed information technology assets. Multicloud cost models …

Regional nursing home operator assures quality care with data analytics

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

This is a sponsored post commissioned by Hitachi Vantara Corp. Aging populations need care around the clock. Indeed, the clock is a primary tool for determining what constitutes a baseline level of care for each resident in an institutional caregiving setting. For …

In the multicloud era, is hardware an asset or a liability for tech providers?

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Edge computing is driving hardware to the center of the cloud revolution. Devices are central to today’s cloud-to-edge paradigm. They are the hardware platforms into which AI software is being embedded, infusing data-driven intelligence into practically anything and everything. Is hardware a …

Wrapping up Next, Google pushes multiclouds to top of customers’ IT strategies

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC made an impressive showing at its annual Cloud Next conference this week in San Francisco. In the arena for hybrid and multicloud computing, it differentiated its value proposition in several respects: Strong multicloud offering: Google’s general-availability release of Anthos signaled its …

Cloud Next day two wrap: Google makes a strong developer push

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC made even more product announcements on day two of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco than on the opening day of the event — this time aimed chiefly at software developers. Google is very clearly reaching out to the …

Day one wrap at Next: Multicloud stars as Google Cloud opens up its strategy

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Google had been inching into the hybrid cloud market over the past year. As it did so, it scarcely made an attempt to enter the growing multicloud arena. But what a difference a day makes! In the day one keynote today at …

The challenge of ensuring effective security across the multicloud

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

The best security is by design. But that raises a problem when securing a multicloud. Multiclouds rarely originate from a conscious design. More often than not, they are an attempt to bring architectural coherence to disparate systems, networks and applications that were …

At Flink Forward, Ververica evolves Apache Flink into a unified data platform

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Stream computing is a key platform for a growing range of data-rich, low-latency applications. More online apps — such as mobility, the “internet of things,” media, gaming and serverless — require a robust, low-latency data processing backbone. Core features of many streaming …

On the verge of Next ’19, Google must double down on cloud applications

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Google is deep into the application development ecosystem, if for no other reason than that it created many open-source components that have since become ubiquitous. Google’s DNA is all over modern applications. It would be difficult to find modern web apps that …

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Regional nursing home operator assures quality care with data analytics

At Flink Forward, Ververica evolves Apache Flink into a unified data platform

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