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Real-time data integration serves up freshest reporting, analytics
Data coming and going behind a curtain of computing obscurity presents problems. If companies can’t gauge recent changes, they may miss something crucial. If they can’t direct data sets to the right targets, they could lose valuable insight. Integration and analytics tools can squint through the shroud and provide constant data intelligence. Sweeping all data into ...
Software automation handles tricky multicloud-networking business
What’s a mobile application using a database in one public cloud, a machine-learning engine in another, and three managed services running in still others? It’s a typical example of modern enterprise information technology. Getting all cloud services talking to each other coherently requires a highly democratic, adaptable network foundation. “Having that underpinned by a strong ...
Alexa app for elderly aid bridges digital divide, acts as companion
Isn’t it great when mind-bending technology and product development come down the chute to solve a real human problem? Diverse industries are applying the latest advancements in artificial intelligence to everyday consumer issues. For example, the AI technology in Amazon Alexa’s virtual assistant could prove a handy in-home healthcare assistant, according to Dr. Justin Marley ...
This attitude adjustment makes security profitable, slays regulation monster
Waiting around for legislatures to throw a two-inch-thick book of data-compliance laws at the company? Sitting by with patching and remediation tools on hand for after a breach occurs? Maybe an attitude adjustment is due. Maybe it’s time to befriend security, blend it into the business, and make it a profit-driving competitive advantage. “We view security as ...
Containers need a lil’ help from resource optimization
Who isn’t cruising on the container bandwagon these days? They provide a virtualized means to run distributed software applications. They’re the tickets to multicloud since users can deploy them across multiple environments; they can move legacy applications to the public cloud; they’re magic. Well, maybe not that last one. “People think they’re kind of magical,” ...
AWS certification gets managed-service providers into shape
What’s in an Amazon Web Services Inc. certification? Is it just a fancy label the company slaps on its buddies’ run-of-the-mill products? Let’s ask a bona fide AWS partner decorated with the Managed Service Provider certification. The short answer is, no, according to Dave Shacochis (pictured), vice president of product management at CenturyLink Inc. It jumped ...
Want software-first agility? Get with event-driven architecture, says Accenture
Think microservices are as granular as it gets in modern information technology? Then shake hands with the new reactive, event-driven architecture. This method triggers reactions where teeny-tiny events happen, instead of waiting for longer sequences to complete. It results in keener, quicker software applications and better customer experiences. We see an architectural sea change every ...
Cloud AI services dose big pharma with overdue speed, agility
What industry could stand to pick up its pace more than pharmaceutical research? Look at the price of drugs in the U.S. It can take over 10 years and billions of dollars to develop one pill. Providing insight and historical context, modern machine-learning technologies could make pharma a more efficient industry. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is adopting cloud technologies to ...
‘Shift left’ prevents missteps that lead to 90% of breaches in cloud computing
Lugging workloads from on-premises to public cloud is straining when done with flimsy security policies. Making sure workloads are secure and compliant the minute they arrive in cloud is even harder. How do companies do it? With a methodology called “shift left” that pushes security back to the earliest stages of developer operations. “As they ...
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Civilians build industrial-grade AI models with low-code platform
Who couldn’t use some time-lapsing, truth-seeing artificial intelligence models at work? Such models analyze whole object-storage buckets full of text or images. They answer difficult queries in minutes, sparing users weeks or months of tedious work. Sign me up. The trouble is, not all companies have a dream team of data-science Ph.D.s on hand to tailor ...
