Patrick Nelson

Patrick is a writer covering live events with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. A journalist specializing in industrial and business technology, he was formerly editor and publisher of the music industry trade publication Producer Report. Nelson has written for a number of technology blogs and wrote the Disruptor, future of networking blog for NetworkWorld. Nelson wrote the cult-classic novel "Sprawlism." In his spare time, he engineers and builds drones and designs radio frequency antennas. Got news? Tweet us @siliconangle

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How a health service in Ireland delivered its COVID vaccination program in record time

APPS By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Protecting a population was the impetus behind a health department’s unusually rapid ramp-up of a national vaccination program. The country of Ireland required a system built from scratch that would vaccinate not only the populous, but also the health workers, and do …

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia implements cashless payment system

APPS By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Countries would like to go cashless because it’s cheaper and more traceable, including for collecting taxes, according to a tech executive who’s company has been brought on to perform this very meteoric shift for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom wants …

Security is the principal reason mainframe is still around, say consultants

CLOUD NATIVE By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

The mainframe computer is here to stay, according to analysts working closely with IBM. That’s despite a preponderance of cloud initiatives seen recently by the consultancy firm — the primary reason for the discovered reliance on the now-aging tech being security. “Mainframe …

Disruptor explains IBM-Cisco alliance

BIG DATA By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Monitoring all of the components in a customer’s interaction with digitized broker channels is an example of how a company can take advantage of the 25-year-old IBM-Cisco Systems Inc. strategic relationship, according to an insurance vendor user. Automated, direct-to-customer channels, where customers …

Consistency-for-all is goal of managed cloud from Red Hat

CLOUD By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

The new, managed cloud services portfolio from Red Hat Inc. means managed OpenShift is now available on all the major cloud services, according to a Red Hat executive recently. That Kubernetes distribution is a managed service now on Amazon AWS, Azure, Google …

Organizations need OpenShift add-on security, says Red Hat executive

INFRA By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Enterprise, open-source solutions provider Red Hat Inc. has begun to articulate how it sees its acquisition of StackRox Inc., the Kubernetes-native security solution, playing out. That includes StackRox’s name change to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, or RHACS (and sometimes …

AI tools are extracting useful information from document swamps

CLOUD NATIVE By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Pinpointing specific information in massive swaths of financial services contractual documents was the driver that created a need for KPMG International Ltd.’s new Ignite artificial intelligence ecosystem, says a software engineering boss there. “Tons of contracts” and documents existed at the professional …

Red Hat Insights gets OpenShift and Ansible friendly

INFRA By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Insights is among the Red Hat Inc. products that is seeing expansion and new development emphasis, according to disclosures made at the recent Red Hat Summit event. The hybrid cloud-oriented, analytics product creates visibility so users can optimize security and get better …

Mutual Credit Union partners with ThinkStack for security, resiliency and productivity

CLOUD By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Cloud technology has become vital for a Mississippi-based credit union. That’s in part because a major gap in its operations has been IT staffing as it migrated to a digitized business. The lack of access to workers was exacerbated, too, by management …

Will open-source Postgres take over the database market? Experts weigh in

INFRA By PATRICK NELSON5 YEARS AGO

Open-source databases are a viable alternative to de facto Oracle across swaths of industries, according to a panel of technology executives. EDB coupled with PostgreSQL can support many workloads that enterprise would formerly have run using Oracle, they said. “Customers got tired …

Patrick Nelson

Latest from Patrick Nelson

How a health service in Ireland delivered its COVID vaccination program in record time

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia implements cashless payment system

Security is the principal reason mainframe is still around, say consultants

Disruptor explains IBM-Cisco alliance

Mutual Credit Union partners with ThinkStack for security, resiliency and productivity

Will open-source Postgres take over the database market? Experts weigh in

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