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Enterprises want industry cloud: Are legacy companies like Oracle better resourced to bring it? | #OOW
Enterprises looking to migrate to cloud and enter the Digital Age can sometimes assume that the newest vendors on the block are best suited to job. Eyeballs naturally gravitate to the shiniest, most-hyped businesses that are not only cloud experts, but perhaps cloud-native themselves. But are there some key advantages to hiring an old hand, even ...
Two heads are better than one — unless one of them is a self-driving vehicle | #FordTrends
Autonomous vehicles present such a revolutionary change to the way we commute, it’s sometimes hard to envision the day they will rule our roads and highways. But the manufacturers and engineers hard at work perfecting them tell us that in a few years, this may be the reality. How do they work? Are they safe? Are ...
Can Ford future-proof business by being its own disruptors? | #FordTrends
Disruption is a looming reality for pretty much everyone in business these days. For digital-native companies, another digital-native company with a newer or smarter technology could come in and take them out. Many non-digital-native companies feel like sitting ducks. Silicon Valley contains a universe of technology that might well do their jobs better than them, ...
Can an auto manufacturer segue from the ‘car’ business to the ‘mobility’ business? | #FordTrends
The automotive industry is under Darwinian pressure to revamp its business model. Owning a car is still expensive and perhaps inconvenient, especially for urban drivers for whom finding a parking spot can be a daily nuisance. Add to this the growing number of ride-sharing apps, and individual car ownership is becoming a hard sell. A ...
Has Big Data passed the tipping point in traditional storage? | #CUBEconversations
As enterprises amass huge data sets for analytics, insights and ultimately profits, two tricky problems might bob to the surface. First, traditional storage is not well equipped to handle gargantuan data. The obvious solution would be to move it to the cloud, which brings up the second problem: Some organizations with massive data sets want ...
Remote control: Is this the off-prem solution for public cloud holdouts? | #IOConversations
Most enterprises today want to get out of the data center business — meaning they want to outsource the maintenance of the data center and infrastructure to focus on innovative software and applications that help them make money. The public cloud, with its inexpensive, full-service management, is alluring to many. Yet some businesses have cold ...
The big leagues do the data center differently — can this company help you copy them? | #IOConversations
Between the move to cloud and Big Data monetization, to name just two big IT jobs, the modern enterprise has a lot on its plate these days. If CTOs heed every vendor saying that the network has to go software-defined or applications have to be containerized, etc., they will soon have more balls in the ...
The mobile and the millennial: Futurecasting automotive in the Age of Uber | #WomenInTech
The velocity of technological change is at an all-time high as developers break through barriers and bottlenecks every day. It can be challenging for a digital-native company to keep up with all the innovation — traditional companies may find they need extra hands on deck just to keep them updated. They know that VCs and ...
On demand: We can now spin up apps in a day, so why not networks? | #Riverbed
The cloud has made once-clunky and expensive infrastructure a made-to-order service you can pay for online with a credit card in seconds. This has made application development easy enough for middle schoolers. Just one element of infrastructure lags behind in a seeming time warp: Networking. Some professionals say that networking is ripe for a fundamental ...
Can this technology put a set of eyes on all levels of your application? | #Riverbed
Business managers, CTOs, developers and vendors are all quibbling over what makes the perfect cloud infrastructure. Will this recipe be single-cloud or multi-cloud? Will it be hybrid with a dash of on-prem or a heap? While they disagree on some particulars, most agree that it will involve multiple environments and much greater sprawl than the ...
