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Walk into a bank branch today and the scene is usually a row of teller windows flanked by employees in business attire having hushed conversations in nearby cubicles. Yet, Capital One Financial Corp. is working to change that image by opening a …
Accenture, AWS launch expanded set of innovation services for cloud clients
For many enterprises, cloud computing adoption is only a first step. The more difficult challenge comes in leveraging cloud technology to drive sustained business value and growth. With this in mind, Accenture LLP and Amazon Web Services Inc. launched the Accenture AWS …
Lessons from IBM and Wang: Startups will write next chapter for John Chambers after Cisco
Clutching his fishing pole, the six-year-old boy was swept along the rapids of a raging West Virginia river. Only fate and the calming words of his own father nearby would coalesce to save Cisco Systems Inc.’s future leader. It was a near-death experience …
KDDI, Toyota and Accenture leverage combined data to improve taxis and manufacturing
Data by itself is powerful, but data combined with other data can have even greater impact. Data’s combined power was highlighted this year through a collaborative effort spearheaded by KDDI Corp., one of Japan’s largest mobile carriers, Toyota Motor Corp., and Accenture …
McAfee moves further into cloud with support for AWS Security Hub
While many consider cloud computing to be fairly secure, anything is hackable. And McAfee LLC has seen more than its share of vulnerabilities, both on-premises and in the cloud. So the company recently announced at AWS re:Invent that it would support Amazon Web Services …
McAfee, AWS teamup brings new data security monitoring tools to the cloud
While many enterprise organizations have enthusiastically embraced the migration of databases from on-premises data centers to the cloud, there are still trade-offs. One of these has been the loss of security monitoring tools, and it is a situation that McAfee LLC is …
Wavefront adds Distributed Tracing to help avoid DevOps blind spots
In high-pressured developer operations environments, corporate developers are like magicians performing a multiple-plate spinning trick. As they spin up containers, they demand full visibility into operations at all times and need to know quickly when a “plate” starts to wobble. This is …
Partnership with AWS enables Veritas solution for leading Chinese logistics firm
In today’s complicated landscape for information technology, having a cross-platform solution that can perform critical data protection and recovery functions for enterprise data centers and hybrid clouds is a valuable tool. Veritas Technologies LLC’s NetBackup solution provides that support for the enterprise, and …
HPE extends InfoSight cross-platform and adds new storage capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s servers and systems just got smarter. The company just announced that its cloud-based artificial intelligence management tool — InfoSight — would add machine learning capabilities that include cross-stack recommendations for Nimble Storage, an AI-driven resource planner to optimize workload placement and performance …
How AWS built its new satellite ‘ground station as a service’
Amazon.com Inc. has already commoditized e-commerce and the cloud. Why not satellite data as well? That’s the premise behind Amazon Web Services Inc.’s decision in March to launch a new cloud service in the last week of November that leverages its global network …